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Infiltration Forums > Archived UE Photo Critiques > Please critique (Viewed 175 times)
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Please critique
< on 2/15/2007 2:54 AM >
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Went and took some more pictures today in the freezing cold. Please critique.


1. The desk isn't completely in focus but I liked the lighting.

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Re: Please critique
<Reply # 1 on 2/15/2007 3:23 AM >
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These are really beautiful. I absolutely love the lighting on the desk and the snow. Good job.

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Re: Please critique
<Reply # 2 on 2/15/2007 3:23 AM >
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Sphinx,

This set is greatly improved over your last set. I'm not going to individually critique these, but I will say two things:

Get the camera lower to the ground, and gimmie some shallow dof on those ones that beg for it.

Again, greatly improved set, nice job. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Please critique
<Reply # 3 on 2/15/2007 3:33 AM >
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I enjoy numbers 1 and 6 a lot. The rest really don't do much for me simply because they're very straight forward and at times boring. Four is a cool concept, and it's rare that you managed to shoot the mirror without yourself in it. I think that if you straightened out the angle of the wall that the mirror is mounted on, it would be a great shot. Aside from a bit of a grain problem, that's all I can find wrong with four.

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Re: Please critique
<Reply # 4 on 2/15/2007 3:59 AM >
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These are really beautiful. I absolutely love the lighting on the desk and the snow. Good job.

Thank you.

Sphinx,

This set is greatly improved over your last set. I'm not going to individually critique these, but I will say two things:

Get the camera lower to the ground, and gimmie some shallow dof on those ones that beg for it.

Again, greatly improved set, nice job. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the advice.

I enjoy numbers 1 and 6 a lot. The rest really don't do much for me simply because they're very straight forward and at times boring. Four is a cool concept, and it's rare that you managed to shoot the mirror without yourself in it. I think that if you straightened out the angle of the wall that the mirror is mounted on, it would be a great shot. Aside from a bit of a grain problem, that's all I can find wrong with four.

Yeah I don't like the grain on 4, but when I tried using noise ninja to remove it, it removed the detail on the wall, and the floor. I'm shooting with ISO 100 on a digital. Is there anyway to fix this?

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Re: Please critique
<Reply # 5 on 2/15/2007 4:03 AM >
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I'm shooting with ISO 100 on a digital. Is there anyway to fix this?


Not really other than get a better camera. 100 ISO on a digital is basically the lowest ISO (and least amount of grain).




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Re: Please critique
<Reply # 6 on 2/15/2007 2:54 PM >
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Went and took some more pictures today in the freezing cold.


Your info says Georgia, and I see green outside the window. How cold could it really be? Jk.

Anyway:

1 & 2 have gorgeous light. I have dreams about window light like that. Seriously. The light saves them, as compositionally they're somewhat average. I like #2 more, but the out of focus dark whatever running down the right side bugs me. The one on the left serves a purpose, containing the brightness of the window, but the one on the right is a bit redundant.

3 is typical ue fare, normally I'd ignore yet another hallway perspective type shot, but technically, you nailed it. The tones from shadow to highlight are dead on. You could maybe use a touch more contrast in the low midtones; but then again, that might bring too much attention to the ceiling. Nice job on this one.

The rest don't do much for me - 4 seems kind of pointless, with nowhere to focus. A closer crop around the mirror might help that, there's way too much wall surrounding the mirror.

5 and 6 are nice finds, technically okay, but kind of boring pictures. Watch the tops of your frames - both of them could do without the distracting elements (door in the first case and whatever that is in the background of the fire extinguisher in the second). It's a case of too much or not enough - with different angles, the backgrounds could become part of the photos, but right now there's not enough to make the backgrounds a functional part of the composition, and they're just distracting.

Yeah I don't like the grain on 4, but when I tried using noise ninja to remove it, it removed the detail on the wall, and the floor. I'm shooting with ISO 100 on a digital. Is there anyway to fix this?


Are you lightening these much? Any time you increase the brightness of shadow and midtone areas in a digital image you add noise. Also, the method you convert to grayscale will affect noise - generally, you should just throw out the blue channel and blend the red and green until you've got something decent to start with, then convert to grayscale. Don't ever let the camera decide how to record a scene in black and white, always change it later. #4 also looks a bit oversharpened, and if you've got the threshold set too low, it'll pick up on the existing noise and emphasize it. Just some thoughts that may help the noise issue, but I don't know your process, so I don't know if any of that will help.

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Re: Please critique
<Reply # 7 on 2/15/2007 3:33 PM >
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I think that I like 1 and 6 the best. they are very unique. keep up the good work!

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Re: Please critique
<Reply # 8 on 2/15/2007 6:44 PM >
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Your info says Georgia, and I see green outside the window. How cold could it really be? Jk.

lol. It was 23 here this morning.

I usually just desaturate it in photoshop. For the picture of the fire extinguisher, I use a red filter effect with the raw image processor. How should I do it?

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