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 cwestcivic5
 
Location: Michigan
Gender: Male
 |  | Trip to the Library
< on 7/21/2006 9:59 PM >
|  | | | Taken with a Sony DSC-T1 today.
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edit: Oops, forgot to resize. Fixed.
[last edit 7/22/2006 4:41 AM by cwestcivic5 - edited 2 times]
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I am the Bear
  
Location: Seattle Wa
Gender: Male
| | Re: Trip to the Library
<Reply # 1 on 7/23/2006 5:37 AM >
| | | | dang you've been busy... three photography posts in what, two days?
all of these have very harsh and bland daytime lighting, which can be fixed by taking shots in the evening (at sunset).
#1. i dont really like it all that much. the angle doesn't flatter the subject all that much. i assume you were focusing on the railing. you should have framed it differently. the stairs, bricks, and door are all easily seen through the bars, and it ends up being distracting. maybe selective focus, a better background, or not taking the picture at all.
the most interesting part of this picture is the cement/rust combination on the far right below the black door
#2. again, i think theres too much going on for me to enjoy this.
#4. the only real good one of the lot, but i think it could stand to be darkened in photoshop, and you turn up the contrast to make it even more appealing. but i like the complimentary colors, and the shapes.
#5. apply ever piece of advice i gave for the previous photos, and this will be better.
[last edit 7/23/2006 5:38 AM by I am the Bear - edited 1 times]
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cwestcivic5
Location: Michigan
Gender: Male
| | Re: Trip to the Library
<Reply # 2 on 7/24/2006 4:18 AM >
| | | | Yeah i noticed the bland lighting too. Thanks for the honesty though. It sucks because it seems every good place for this type of photography gets boarded up and stuff so fast. I think theres an abandoned amusement park around here i want to check out. Also theres a house that looks like a bomb went off in it im dying to check out. Im weird in the sense that i want to be pretty good at everything i do. Like with cars and stuff ive come a long way so i think its time i picked up another hobby. Hopefully ill go to these 2 spots within this week. I will try to apply all the helping words you gave me. About the lighting. Daytime lighting is bland and evening time seems to be the best. How is morning light?
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grassy
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Yeah, I'm MAX ACTION... So what?
| | Re: Trip to the Library
<Reply # 3 on 7/26/2006 7:39 AM >
| | | | Is that an... ABANDONED library?
It's not obvious.
i have never taken a photograph in my life
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Ian
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Location: The County of Kings
Gender: Male
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water, and stupid men."
| | Re: Trip to the Library
<Reply # 4 on 7/27/2006 4:24 AM >
| | | | OK, I'm only going to critique #s 1 and 3, because frankly, the other ones are crap.
#1: This shot was clearly taken in the middle of the day. While decently composed, it suffers from really shitty "middle of the day" lighting. Which is no good - it's not your friend (though it pretends to be) and it steals your lunch money. Ditch this lighting scheme. Go and retake this picture within the first hour of first light. This period, and the hour before darkness falls, are the "magic hours" for exterior shots - but the earlier one would work better here, based simply on the colour temperatures displayed. Now slightly fix the composition, which I will say is actually very decent on this shot - pan up a little, though, and get that line of vertically aligned bricks to meet the top-left corner of the frame; MAYBE pull out a little to keep the general frame. I actually like the top of the door being cut off, but a lot of purist will probably argue against this. All in all, a very decent image with potential - the main thing here is that you, grasshopper, must learn about light, and about how it looks at various points in the day. Then, grasshopper, you will be able to master shadows & colour temps.
#3: Don't have as much to say about this one. The subject matter rocks; however, once again, you're shooting it at a really crappy time of day. Use one of the "magic hours". Since it's clearly a digital image, don't crop it to a square. Only post a square image if you shot a square image - which you didn't. The angle could be compelling but isn't. Utilize the rule of 1/3's, and perhaps try it (at dawn or dusk) from a lot of angles, both with the lens you used and with a very wide one. I can see some kick-ass potential doing some wideangle shots, close to the ground, with the weird device+leaves in sharp focus, and the fence trailing off into the distance, if such it does. If not, just goof around with angles and see what works. In any case, not in the middle of the day.
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NickNervosa
Location: Philadelphia/ NJ
Gender: Male
| |  |  | Re: Trip to the Library
<Reply # 5 on 7/27/2006 5:01 AM >
| | | | i think the picture of the fence and vents? would be better if you were close to the fence so where the vents were in focus. what was that rusted fan looking thing?
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