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 maypost
    
Location: North, South, East, West, all around... then down to the underground
Gender: Male
Exploring if for n00bz0rz
 |  | OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
< on 2/5/2006 3:22 AM >
|  | | | I shot these with a Kodak P880.
My knowledge in photography is minimal at best(I read the manual to my camera but that is about the extent of my photography training) but I do want to improve so here goes nothing. Tear me to shreds, just give me something I can learn in return . :)
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KBaller
Location: Chicago
Gender: Male
Go White Sox!
| |  |  | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 1 on 2/5/2006 3:39 AM >
| | | | These are very good photos! keep up the good work
For the first one, it is just a little of balance. Rotate it.
The last for are a little to dark for my taste
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blackhawk762
Location: Maryland
Gender: Male
In Tyler We Trust
| |  | | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 2 on 2/5/2006 4:38 AM >
| | | | I think you're a LIAR! Those photos are too good for you to be an amateur! =P
I like the third one the best. Pretty good composition on all of them, though.
"We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them." "At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves." "This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom." |
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maypost
Location: North, South, East, West, all around... then down to the underground
Gender: Male
Exploring if for n00bz0rz
| | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 3 on 2/5/2006 4:58 AM >
| | | | Oh stop, you guys are supposed to be ripping me a new one. 
But seriously, thanks for the confidence booster. could anyone post or mp me some good photography links. I have allot of settings that I mess with but I don't really understand what I am doing or how if effects my exposures. Hopefully some base knowledge will help improve my skills. 
Exploring is like tattoos... They stopped being cool in 2005
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Yehoshua
 
Location: Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 4 on 2/5/2006 5:45 AM >
| | | | You've got a bit of posterization in the windows of the first pic, and I'd suggest using a Levels layer in photoshop to set the darkest point in those windows to absolute black...but that's just me, that's not necessarily "better" photography or anything.
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blackhawk762
Location: Maryland
Gender: Male
In Tyler We Trust
| | | | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 5 on 2/5/2006 4:08 PM >
| | | | Well... I don't really know of any good photography links, but I'll try my best to explain what I know. Don't quote me on it, though. And... I still think you're lying. You know what all this stuff is! =P Anywho, here is what I know pretty well:
A larger aperture (smaller f-stop) yields a sharper foreground but less depth of field (DOF). Also, it lets in more light so you may have to set your shutter speed up to compensate.
A smaller aperture (larger f-stop) yields a slightly less sharper foreground but more DOF. It lets in less light so you might have to compensate with a slower shutter speed.
A low shutter speed captures motion with a blurred effect. It also lets in more light. Normally you should use a tripod with a low shutter speed.
A high shutter speed captures little to no motion at all, "freezing" the subjects in place. It is normally a good idea to use the highest shutter speed you can to reduce unwanted motion blur.
A higher ISO, or film speed, produces a grainer (noisier) picture because it has less dots per inch. However, exposure times will be less. A high film speed is normally good with low light situations, but it should be avoided whenever possible.
A lower ISO, or film speed, produces the opposite. Duh. =P Try to use a lower ISO or film speed whenever possible.
I don't know what else you'd like to know. Anything?
"We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them." "At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves." "This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom." |
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FourSidedOctagon
Location: Marriottsville, MD
Gender: Male
| | | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 6 on 2/5/2006 5:37 PM >
| | | | i really like the second one. I think it would have been better black and white. thats just my opinion though.
great pics
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cmt9000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 7 on 2/7/2006 4:49 PM >
| | | | Nice camera...I'm thinking about getting one of those
http://www.flickr....tos/cmt_pitt/sets/ |
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journeylady
Location: Kitchener
Gender: Female
| | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 8 on 2/7/2006 4:56 PM >
| | | | I would have cropped the third one a bit. the darkness on the right side throws me off. maybe make it a portrait composition instead of landscape....? like this?
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It's exactly like a greek tragedy.
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0U812
Location: Lubbock, TX
Gender: Female
Texploration
| | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 9 on 2/7/2006 5:07 PM >
| | | | Awesome pictures. Looks like you on your way to becoming a pro.
I figured out what's wrong with life:
It's other people. |
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maypost
Location: North, South, East, West, all around... then down to the underground
Gender: Male
Exploring if for n00bz0rz
| | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 10 on 2/9/2006 5:08 AM >
| | | | Posted by cmt9000
Nice camera...I'm thinking about getting one of those
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I love it allot. The only things it lacks is image stabilisation but a tripod takes care of that, and without a remote there is a max 16 sec exposure time.
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cmt9000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 11 on 2/9/2006 5:50 PM >
| | | | Maypost, wow, only 16 seconds? My kodak dx7440 can go up to 64 seconds and it's just a little point-and-shoot.
Can it go beyond 16 seconds with a remote?
Thanks dude
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maypost
Location: North, South, East, West, all around... then down to the underground
Gender: Male
Exploring if for n00bz0rz
| | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 12 on 2/9/2006 6:29 PM >
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Maypost, wow, only 16 seconds? My kodak dx7440 can go up to 64 seconds and it's just a little point-and-shoot.
Can it go beyond 16 seconds with a remote?
Thanks dude |
Yeah, there is a bulb setting for shutter speed and with that on you can keep it open for as long as you like. But it is pointless to use it without a remote.
Exploring is like tattoos... They stopped being cool in 2005
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TheQ
Gender: Male
| | | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 13 on 2/10/2006 3:03 AM >
| | | | that is not necessarily true, there are a few cases where you do not need to stabilize the camera at all. When shooting pictures fo fireworks, you can simply focus to the farthest distance, and just point and shoot. Any movement of the camera is lost in the action of the fireworks and doesn't take away from the picture. You can write in the air with sparklers and capture it with the mode, you just need a steady hand. These sorts of pictures don't require detail in the background. I know these techniques aren't gonna produce the perfect picture, but they're a lot of fun sometimes.
Sorry, they are unrelated to UE, but i'll have UE photos up as soon as i get full member status, and can create several locations.
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brendan
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
| | | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 14 on 2/10/2006 9:14 PM >
| | | | Posted by maypost
Tear me to shreds, just give me something I can learn in return .
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1) If you're going for symmetry, make it symmetrical. Put that doorway in the center, keep the shot level (or rotate in photoshop), and is that a signpost just sticking up out of no where on the right? yuck(to the mystery signpost).
Also, step back a few paces and shoot a little more straight-on, my neck hurts from looking up.
2) Nice composition, the light streaming in from the window adds a nice touch. But where is your focus, the front chair or the back? Take a second and notice not only does the back chair appear sharper, but it's also lit nicely, where as the front one is in a shadow. My eyes skip all over the image because I don't know where I'm supposed to look and there's too much to look at.
If you had gone to the other end of the room and shot front he opposite side, then the chair would have been nicely lit, and the one in the back would be there, but would be in the shadows and not too distracting.
I'd also suggest going for a wide aperture to get the background a little more blurred out, isolating the first chair. But that is a limitation of your camera, not you.
3) The crumbling wall on the stairwell looks amazing, as does the peeling paint on the door, but by trying to have them both you've made the photo too cluttered.
Always look at the edges of the frame before you take a photo. If there is a slanted wall on the left edge that does nothing but distract you, then recompose and get rid of it.
It takes too long to realize that that thing with the peeling paint on the right is a door, the angle to it is just too shallow and it ends up looking like a bunch of distracting crap on the right half of the image.
You've got three bright areas (window, top stairs, reflection at top of door) that are all competing with each other, another reason just to forget the door on the right and focus on the stairs.
Honestly those stairs just kick ass, it looks like you've stepped back from a great photo and thrown a bunch of dark, distracting stuff on both sides.
4) Nice, well composed detail shot. Good straight lines, DOF, sharpness.
Just kind of boring, there are only so many centered, broken window shots you can see before they all look the same.
5) Nice, moody shot, love those pipes fading away at the top. Subject is well defined, but the bottom half is much to dark. If you don't like the floor then get higher, look up, or move closer, but all that darkness makes this centered shot look unbalanced.
6) Creeeeepy, great lighting, I like this shot. Again, look at the edges- why is there some useless pipe hanging through the top-right corner? It's distracting, get rid of it. Those pipes in the lower-right have a big bright spot on the top- it's distracting, get rid of it. (when I say get rid of it, I don't mean cut it out in photoshop. I mean notice it before you take the picture and recompose.) The appeal of those open doors is the scary darkness inside, but I can just see some brick in the back of the lower-left one. Well good job, now I can see what's inside and now I'm not scared. Darken that a little in photoshop to get rid of it, and then we can wonder what's inside and waiting to eat us.
Love the floor, great texture, colour, and long shadows.
7) Low contrast, blown highlights all over the place, back-lit so that I can't see the washing machines? properly. Also there's some ugly laundry cart in the way. Not that the cart is a bad thing, it could add to the photo, but the way this is framed it just gets in the way.
This could have been a nice photo, you were just there at the wrong time of day. If the sun wasn't so intense you could have filled in the light in the room with a long exposure without the window trying to blind me.
8) Gorgeous green walls, and wonderful soft light across the floor. The pastel colours really make this photo. But were not looking at the walls and the floor, we're looking at those dark things in the middle. Seriously, what are those, and why are they so dark? And why is there a useless dark strip of wall on the left edge if the frame, that's only going to distract me.
Honestly, great, moody feel, draws your eyes right to the subject, and then you get let down because you can't really see it. Is it an ironing press? I can't tell from the dark underside of it.
Overall very well composed photos with some minor technical flaws.
Pick your subject, get rid of anything distracting, and then check the edges to make sure nothing ugly is creeping in.
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Shai Hulud
Location: Evansville IN
Gender: Male
Shai, Team Phantom
| | Re: OK. First post, be honest. I need all the help I can get
<Reply # 15 on 6/9/2006 7:27 AM >
| | | | Good shots. I like the kind of moody lighting you have in 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8. More would be great.
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