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 Corporal_Clegg
    
Location: Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
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< on 7/12/2006 2:28 PM >
|  | | | Hey. Tell me what you think.
#1
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Corporal_Clegg
Location: Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 1 on 7/12/2006 4:49 PM >
| | | | lmayonaise.
22 views, no comments.
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Arch-Image
 
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
"This gene pool could use a little chlorine."
| | | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 2 on 7/12/2006 5:44 PM >
| | | | Posted by Corporal_Clegg
lmayonaise.
22 views, no comments.
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Not unusual;
The first shot, the lighting is way to unbalanced, burn in the chair so you can see it better, carefull not to do the whole shot or you'll blow out the hilights in the window. Generally not a hugely interesting shot for me. The second one I think is pretty good, lighting is good, I like the way the hilights in the windows come thru and good detail in the junk. A little busy but thats the kind of shot it is.
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Jonsered
Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong
Gender: Male
Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........
| |  | | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 3 on 7/12/2006 6:01 PM >
| | | | I'm with Arch. The first one just isn't working that well. The light coming in through the window is sort of overwhelming the things in the room. I have that problem all the time, and I don't know what to tell you.
The second one looks nice. Its kind of strange, because you have the same situation with bright light pouring in from the ceiling, but it doesn't overwhelm the camera on this one. Good detail of the smaller items in the shot.
I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread.
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Corporal_Clegg
Location: Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 4 on 7/12/2006 6:14 PM >
| | | | | A little busy but thats the kind of shot it is. |
I am unfamiliar with the term "busy" in photography.
| Its kind of strange, because you have the same situation with bright light pouring in from the ceiling, but it doesn't overwhelm the camera on this one. |
My camera wasnt in focus and the only way it was in focus was if it was a 4 sec exposure.
Besides the lighting and stuff, how were the angles on the shots?
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Jonsered
Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong
Gender: Male
Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........
| | | | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 5 on 7/12/2006 6:17 PM >
| | | | Man I really can't help you there. I am constantly trying to get assistance with angles and perspective. I like the second one better, as it looks like you are looking down slightly or level at the subject. I'm not a fan of "from the floor" shots.
I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread.
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Corporal_Clegg
Location: Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 6 on 7/12/2006 6:19 PM >
| | | | These terms you use confuse the fuck out of me.
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Jonsered
Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong
Gender: Male
Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........
| | | | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 7 on 7/12/2006 6:25 PM >
| | | | ROFL
OK, let me try it this way. I'm not good with angles myself. I'm always trying to come up with new ways to frame a shot, or a weird angle to shoot from. THat's what I mean by perspective.
Arch used the term "busy" to mean there are a lot of things in that photo: vats, lights, ceiling beams, etc.
When I say "from the floor", I mean you are shooting from an angle that looks like you are laying on the floor.
I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread.
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big dave
Location: SoCal
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 8 on 7/12/2006 8:56 PM >
| | | | Alright Clegg, im gonna teach you about presentation.
First, level your image. Nobody likes a crooked image unless its intentional and it fits the subject (ie, import cars, etc).
Second, get closer to your subject, dont let walls get in your shot. The wall on the left side of the first pic is very annoying.
Third, open photoshop and give your pic a little life. Rotate it, crop it, sharpen it, saturate it, etc.
Example of WTF im talking about:
[last edit 7/12/2006 8:56 PM by big dave - edited 1 times]
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DelbertGrady
Location: Northeast PA
Gender: Male
Just looking around...
| | | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 9 on 7/12/2006 10:09 PM >
| | | | The second is pretty cool, but you lose the subject matter (the chair) in shadows in the first. CS2 (and maybe CS) has a shadow/highlight tool may help. Could have been a good subject for a bracket and blend.
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Corporal_Clegg
Location: Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 10 on 7/13/2006 8:47 PM >
| | | | | First, level your image. Nobody likes a crooked image unless its intentional and it fits the subject (ie, import cars, etc). |
I have a tripod, it wouldnt fit where I was taking the picture.
| Arch used the term "busy" to mean there are a lot of things in that photo: vats, lights, ceiling beams, etc. |
Haha yeah after I was sitting around thinking about that I figured out what it means.
| Second, get closer to your subject, dont let walls get in your shot. The wall on the left side of the first pic is very annoying. |
Thanks 
| Third, open photoshop and give your pic a little life. Rotate it, crop it, sharpen it, saturate it, etc. |
I have Adobe P.S 6.0...I kinda have an idea on how to use it, but not really.
I suck.
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Explorer Zero
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<Reply # 11 on 7/15/2006 8:34 PM >
| | | | Ill go against the flow here #2 may seem busy to everyone else but thats the nature of some industrial sites to me, and thats one cool site, I mean wooden vats man c'mon! I think its a great shot maybe not artsy like a solitary wheelchair and peeling paint artsy but I know what it looks like inside the place now, and thats in art in its own right, good work!
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I am the Bear
Location: Seattle Wa
Gender: Male
| | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 12 on 7/15/2006 10:33 PM >
| | | | ghostkilla's advice is very practical. his edited picture looks much nicer mainly because it's level, and the wall isnt there to distract my eyes. i dont use a tripod either, and i can often come away with level shots. it just takes a steady hand and ability to determine whats straight and whats not. i have confidence you can do it.
i also agree that the second one is not too busy. busy, yes. too busy? no. it showcases a lot of things without actually giving me a headache. and i dont mind the fact that the windows are "blown out" that is, so bright that they appear as a white blob. i do think they're too blown out in the first picture though.
take some more, post them, and we'll continue to give you pointers.
yay for beginning photography
[last edit 7/15/2006 10:38 PM by I am the Bear - edited 2 times]
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Cipher
Location: Jersey Shore or Washington D.C.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 13 on 7/16/2006 12:14 AM >
|  | | | I like #2 alot, but #1 doesn't do anything for me.
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Devil_Ball
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<Reply # 14 on 7/17/2006 2:29 PM >
| | | | Non-technical advice:
Provide some context for the photographs. And if you show multiple shots, make then cohesive somehow. These two photos don't really look related. They may have come from the same building, but I can't figure out their connection from the photographs alone.
Even if you said something like "one shot is from the office, the other is from the factory floor" it will helps the viewer put a story together.
Some might argue that these considerations are not photography. But I would disagree. It's part of the presentation and helps the pieces convey more meaning.
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desmet
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
| | | | Re: Photo newbie.
<Reply # 15 on 7/17/2006 11:06 PM >
| | | | #1 does not work. Way off level, and not off level for a good reason. Comes across as a snapshot.
#2...now this is better. You framed this the way I sometimes frame shots like this. Lots of leading lines and nice angles. This one is definitely on the right track.
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