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UER Forum > Archived UE Photo Critiques > Old School...Please Teach Me a Lesson (Viewed 283 times)
AKBC 


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Old School...Please Teach Me a Lesson
< on 3/2/2009 1:40 PM >
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Been shooting abandonments with a Canon 20d since the beginning of this year. Doing edits with Photoshop CS utilizing a couple plug-ins (filters and noise).

Compliments are appreciated, however positive, constructive, feedback is appreciated much more. Please help me bolster my skills as a photographer. Thanks

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Re: Old School...Please Teach Me a Lesson
<Reply # 1 on 3/2/2009 3:43 PM >
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I feel kinda weird giving a critique since I don't feel I'm on any kind of level to point stuff out I do on a regular basis, but here goes :-/

#1 Unless my vision is sucking there's some warpage going on here and it doesn't seem centered.

#2 I like it...

#3 Looks like it could use a lil sharpening.

#4 Distortion round the edges.

#5 Lil sharpening.

#6 Nice!

#7 The whites round the porcelain look a lil blown.

#8 A lil counterclockwise rotation and this one rocks!

Please check out mine and return the favour! Thanks!..



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Re: Old School...Please Teach Me a Lesson
<Reply # 2 on 3/2/2009 4:09 PM >
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Thanks for the input...will return the favor.

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Re: Old School...Please Teach Me a Lesson
<Reply # 3 on 3/2/2009 4:45 PM >
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2. Is tilted to the right. I do the exact same fucking thing. Like, my ability to perceive of something as being level is skewed down and to the right.

3. I would have lowered my perspective so the door was head on, moved the door to the right of the composition. Don't center the subject, unless your doing a symmetrical room shot, like number 4.

4. Same tilting, cool idea to step back and use the grid of the interior windows. Why is this building to clean? My apartment isn't this clean...

5. Sometimes I think the rule of thirds is too restrictive, but this calls for it. If you moved the outlet to the left, following the rule, it'd be a neat compositional piece. Very spare and cool.

6. I'm just not a big fan of most stairway shots. They need to be massively decayed if I'm to shoot them. Otherwise they look like, well, stairs. These stairs are cleaner than my apartment buildings. That said, I would have shot up, not down, so as to not get the blownout highlight of the window.

7. Maybe shoot head on, try to get a flat, symmetrical composition?

8. I love this shot.



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Re: Old School...Please Teach Me a Lesson
<Reply # 4 on 3/2/2009 5:09 PM >
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Posted by craigfinlay
Why is this building to clean? My apartment isn't this clean...



Thanks for the help...I'm not sure why this building is so clean seems to have been closed awhile (and for sale) but the power is still on and some of the water fountains are still working. Maybe we were just lucky to have been some of the first to go in b/c this place was in EXCELLENT shape.

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Re: Old School...Please Teach Me a Lesson
<Reply # 5 on 3/2/2009 7:59 PM >
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Worry about your composition before you worry about the special effects. You can probably fix lots of these, but I see lots of crooked lines and barrel distortion. Try getting a bubble level for your camera. That said, you seem to have an eye for it, so keep up the good work. As it stands, these are still way better than a lot of what is posted on this site.

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Re: Old School...Please Teach Me a Lesson
<Reply # 6 on 3/2/2009 8:11 PM >
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Thank you. I am working with a gently used tripod that doesn't hold the camera very well, leading to a ton of crooked lines...but I'm buying a new one in the very near future, prob that bubble level as well.
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