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Jordi
   
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Knoxville, TN
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< on 1/29/2007 5:11 PM >
|  | | | Ok so they arent UE but I would still like some feed back. Basically I suck at taking pictures but I'd like to get better. Right now all I have is a Kodak easyshare until I can afford a nicer camera. I just started paying attention to the pictures I was taking so I'm still a beginner!
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PunkUE
 
location:
Attleboro
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: A few from a snow day
<Reply # 1 on 1/29/2007 5:15 PM >
| | | | Lose the date stamp and try using a tripod. You'll find your photos will improve drastically
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IrIsHmOm
location:
San Joaquin Valley, CA
Gender: Female
I'll kill your face...
| | | | Re: A few from a snow day
<Reply # 2 on 1/29/2007 5:17 PM >
| | | | Watch your backfocus.. If you're going for the close ups, you should have a setting to put the foreground in focus instead of the background. and learn your manual settings as well. It's not that you need a better camera, just learn the manual settings with exposure and white balance, and the aperture. it'll help get rid of that "washed out" look. ^_^
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Jordi
location:
Knoxville, TN
Gender: Female
| | | | | Re: A few from a snow day
<Reply # 3 on 1/29/2007 5:18 PM >
| | | | Yea I plan on getting a tripod but havent had a chance to yet. And I forgot I had the date turned on
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Explorer H
   
Obla-di-obla-doberator
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Around the corner from the Turkey Hill
Gender: Male
I just want some slack.
| | | Re: A few from a snow day
<Reply # 4 on 1/29/2007 6:00 PM >
| | | | Posted by IrIsHmOm
Watch your backfocus.. If you're going for the close ups, you should have a setting to put the foreground in focus instead of the background.
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Yea, a very common oversight. A lot of digi-cams have a close-focus setting, shown by a flower symbol, and landscape option (infinite focus) shown by a mountain symbol. When shooting things close-up, use the flower setting.
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Jordi
location:
Knoxville, TN
Gender: Female
| | | | | Re: A few from a snow day
<Reply # 6 on 1/29/2007 6:10 PM >
| | | | Posted by robdobi
try to choose more interesting subject matter. "shit in my backyard" doesn't really appeal to anyone.
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Normally I dont. I just felt like taking some in the snow so I did. Most of my other pics, I wont post cos they suck or are of random trips.
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IrIsHmOm
location:
San Joaquin Valley, CA
Gender: Female
I'll kill your face...
| | | | Re: A few from a snow day
<Reply # 7 on 1/29/2007 6:14 PM >
| | | | Posted by robdobi
try to choose more interesting subject matter. "shit in my backyard" doesn't really appeal to anyone.
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BUT it is somewhere familiar and good to practice your manual settings on. You don't have to worry about running away, so you have time to get a subject and fix the angle, exposure, etc. which will help in real locations, because you won't be so clumsy with the manual settings. You can see a good subject, fix the settings, take the pic an be on your way much faster. I think it's a good idea to practice around the house or yard, myself. But that's just my opinion..
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turkey
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 8 on 1/29/2007 9:17 PM >
| | | | BUT it is somewhere familiar and good to practice your manual settings on.
Hmm, not sure I agree with that too much. To get really good pictures, I think you need to be moved by the target in the shot. If your not interested, then your not guna pull the shot off...
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IrIsHmOm
location:
San Joaquin Valley, CA
Gender: Female
I'll kill your face...
| | | | Re: A few from a snow day
<Reply # 9 on 1/29/2007 9:23 PM >
| | | | But if you have weird shit in your yard like I do, then it's great. I've got funky trees and a garden that hasn't been used in years, and a partial brick wall out front with lots of ivy.. makes for interesting shots for me. It's helped me work on angles and my focus too. It just depends on what ya got, i guess..
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robdobi
| | | | Re: A few from a snow day
<Reply # 10 on 1/29/2007 9:56 PM >
| | | | Posted by IrIsHmOm
But if you have weird shit in your yard like I do, then it's great. I've got funky trees and a garden that hasn't been used in years, and a partial brick wall out front with lots of ivy.. makes for interesting shots for me. It's helped me work on angles and my focus too. It just depends on what ya got, i guess..
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but we weren't talking about your backyard, the three photos in question are a wooden fence, a pot, and a plant. i'm not saying its impossible to make these things look neat, but the photos in this thread are as boring as they come around here.
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Sentinel
location:
Lawrence, KS
Gender: Male
| | | Re: A few from a snow day
<Reply # 11 on 1/30/2007 2:42 AM >
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I agree. You can find more interesting places rather than your backyard to "practice" taking pics. even if they are public
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UrbanExGirl27
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Pittsburgh, PA
Gender: Female
| | | Re: A few from a snow day
<Reply # 12 on 2/1/2007 12:39 AM >
| | | | yay. we are exploring flower pots now. i'm going to take a wild shot in the dark and say that you grew up in a town with no major abandonments??
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