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 JustPunchIt86
 
Location: Mass
Gender: Male
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< on 11/15/2007 3:22 AM >
|  | | | Superior Friction was an old asbestos brake pad company. Built in the early 1900's and recently put to the wrecking ball, I've been visiting this old friend for over 4 years now and sadly it was time for goodbye.So here's my quick little set from there I took last week, as always I expect you to really pick these apart. 
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TheAMA
Location: Massachusetts
Gender: Female
Asbestos=Hot Chick
| | | | Re: Superior Friction Inc.
<Reply # 1 on 11/15/2007 3:28 AM >
| | | | I love the sink and the chair. I wish I had gotten more usable pictures that day...though stepping on another nail certainly made it worth it
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JeepXJ
   
Location: San Jose, CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Superior Friction Inc.
<Reply # 2 on 11/15/2007 3:31 AM >
| | | | #1 Way too burned in. I'd take that down quite a bit.
#2 Same thing, It's so burned that you've lost detail in the textures on the sink.
#3 I like the composition on this one. Maybe one more stop down, but other than that I like it.
#4 It's a chair, and again to bright. The seat and chair back have no detail left.
#5 Meh. could have been shot a little wider?
Sorry if I was a bit brutal, but you really need to darken up your photos a bit. Sometimes a burned in part can't be avoided, but for the most part you want nothing to be totally burned white like that. I'd rather see the primary subject properly exposed, even if it leaves other parts of the photo a bit too dark.
06:01:50] <Chris> i mean im retarded and im not that awkward
"You mean over saturated photos and macro shots of pealing paint isn’t historically relevant?" -TDK1000 [00:12:02] <yota94> he just called us bitches [00:12:04] *** JeepXJ has joined #general [00:12:15] <JeepXJ> you guys are bitches! [00:12:16] *** JeepXJ has quit AvChat (connection closed by user) [00:12:23] <Deuterium> that w |
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JustPunchIt86
Location: Mass
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Superior Friction Inc.
<Reply # 3 on 11/15/2007 3:36 AM >
| | | | Posted by JeepXJ
#1 Way too burned in. I'd take that down quite a bit.
#2 Same thing, It's so burned that you've lost detail in the textures on the sink.
#3 I like the composition on this one. Maybe one more stop down, but other than that I like it.
#4 It's a chair, and again to bright. The seat and chair back have no detail left.
#5 Meh. could have been shot a little wider?
Sorry if I was a bit brutal, but you really need to darken up your photos a bit. Sometimes a burned in part can't be avoided, but for the most part you want nothing to be totally burned white like that. I'd rather see the primary subject properly exposed, even if it leaves other parts of the photo a bit too dark.
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No it wasn't to harsh at all, and thank you for the suggestions thats what I'm looking for the truth whatever it may be.
www.abstruse-edifice.com
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JeepXJ
Location: San Jose, CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Superior Friction Inc.
<Reply # 4 on 11/15/2007 3:39 AM >
| | | | What are you shooting? Were these manual or auto shots? And do you own photoshop? Some of these may still be savable with a little post work.
06:01:50] <Chris> i mean im retarded and im not that awkward
"You mean over saturated photos and macro shots of pealing paint isn’t historically relevant?" -TDK1000 [00:12:02] <yota94> he just called us bitches [00:12:04] *** JeepXJ has joined #general [00:12:15] <JeepXJ> you guys are bitches! [00:12:16] *** JeepXJ has quit AvChat (connection closed by user) [00:12:23] <Deuterium> that w |
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JustPunchIt86
Location: Mass
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Superior Friction Inc.
<Reply # 5 on 11/15/2007 3:59 AM >
| | | | Posted by JeepXJ
What are you shooting? Were these manual or auto shots? And do you own photoshop? Some of these may still be savable with a little post work.
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I shot with a mamiya 645 afdII and it's 100 percent manual, for glass I'm using an 88mm f2.5. And for post processing programs I use Adobe CS3 Extended
www.abstruse-edifice.com
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JustPunchIt86
Location: Mass
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Superior Friction Inc.
<Reply # 6 on 11/15/2007 7:03 PM >
| | | | something like this a little better?
[last edit 11/15/2007 7:26 PM by JustPunchIt86 - edited 1 times]
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Martino
Location: Almere - NL
Gender: Male
2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
| | | Re: Superior Friction Inc.
<Reply # 7 on 11/15/2007 7:23 PM >
| | | | yes! definitely better.
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JeepXJ
Location: San Jose, CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Superior Friction Inc.
<Reply # 8 on 11/15/2007 9:12 PM >
| | | | Yes, much much better. Are you using the internal meter on the camera for your shots? If so, and it's coming out too bright like that it may be that your meter is a bit biased. I know that the one on my camera is, and I always shoot about two points underexposed on the meter in order to get the correct lighting. Just a thought...
06:01:50] <Chris> i mean im retarded and im not that awkward
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freeside
Location: Northern California
Gender: Male
eh vigo!
| | Re: Superior Friction Inc.
<Reply # 9 on 11/18/2007 10:36 AM >
| | | | Don't be afraid of the darkness in your photography. Once you burn the whites completely you can never take them back down, but you can lighten dark areas.
Shot 1: I would have focused on just the drill presses and left out that cart. The cart is not very interesting. I like the light and shadows on the drill presses. You really missed out on this shot by not including more ceiling. I'm thinking vertical on the two presses from a lower angle to include more ceiling. The ceiling really looks cool and including the color of the ceiling and blue of the drill presses would have given this shot more life. Yeah, and shooting windows during the day from a dark interior is never easy, if not impossible without underexposing the foreground, unless you add light with a flash or flashlight.
2: I'd like to see the photo cropped to completely remove the foreground walls and just show the ground and background. Right now it's really boring, but I know what you were going for. I try shots like this sometimes, but have a hard time making them interesting.
3: Again, crop it. Crop out the really bright part on the right and maybe a little on the left. You should have included the entire leg of the chair as well. Clipping off the edge of a subject drives me crazy! I like this one though. I like the colors in back and the lighting on the chair. Funny focus also?
4: Your depth of field doesn't work here for me. I like the concept here though. The grit, the peel. but there is too much contrast to pull this off.
5: Like jeep says, step back some and include the whole building. Don't cut off edges of your subject if you can avoid it.
Your on the right track though.
(it's easy to critique so-so photos, but really difficult for me to critique already top notch photos) I'm still getting there myself.
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JustPunchIt86
Location: Mass
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Superior Friction Inc.
<Reply # 10 on 11/19/2007 5:01 PM >
| | | | Posted by freeside
Don't be afraid of the darkness in your photography. Once you burn the whites completely you can never take them back down, but you can lighten dark areas.
Shot 1: I would have focused on just the drill presses and left out that cart. The cart is not very interesting. I like the light and shadows on the drill presses. You really missed out on this shot by not including more ceiling. I'm thinking vertical on the two presses from a lower angle to include more ceiling. The ceiling really looks cool and including the color of the ceiling and blue of the drill presses would have given this shot more life. Yeah, and shooting windows during the day from a dark interior is never easy, if not impossible without underexposing the foreground, unless you add light with a flash or flashlight.
2: I'd like to see the photo cropped to completely remove the foreground walls and just show the ground and background. Right now it's really boring, but I know what you were going for. I try shots like this sometimes, but have a hard time making them interesting.
3: Again, crop it. Crop out the really bright part on the right and maybe a little on the left. You should have included the entire leg of the chair as well. Clipping off the edge of a subject drives me crazy! I like this one though. I like the colors in back and the lighting on the chair. Funny focus also?
4: Your depth of field doesn't work here for me. I like the concept here though. The grit, the peel. but there is too much contrast to pull this off.
5: Like jeep says, step back some and include the whole building. Don't cut off edges of your subject if you can avoid it.
Your on the right track though.
(it's easy to critique so-so photos, but really difficult for me to critique already top notch photos) I'm still getting there myself.
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thanks everyone for the help, Freeside so I take it this was easy to critique then being so so photos haha
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