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 Trap
     
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
 |  | Where the Green Moss Grows
< on 1/18/2010 3:01 AM >
|  | | | Visited an old high school today and tried to focus more on taking GOOD pictures instead of just pictures. Let me know what you think and where I can improve.
Shot on a Kodak Easyshare CD1013 Point and shoot.
1) I really liked this one, even though the windows are all blown out.
2) This ones ok, IMO. I was trying to work on getting different perspectives and making an interesting foreground.
3) This was taken in the gym, where there was a green carpet of furns growing, even in January.
4) Also taken in the gym, I think the climbing rope messed this one up.
5) Bleachers in the gym, not much to say.
6) I really liked the way the moss was growing up the wall here.
7) Took this shot mostly for the reflection under the chair.
[last edit 1/18/2010 5:03 AM by Trap - edited 1 times]
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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msgsudz
 
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Gender: Male
Msgsudz has an overactive bowel and shits like a Clydesdale.
| |  | Re: Looking for tips and criticisms
<Reply # 1 on 1/18/2010 3:10 AM >
| | | | all i have to say is i looooove that gym covered in greenery.
"She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro!" - Zapp Brannigan
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 2 on 1/18/2010 3:14 AM >
| | | | I agree on the window blowout (and on the bricks in #2) but it looks like you have a good eye for detail. I also agree with MSG, the gym photos are fantastic. #4 has nice colours, #5 I like the angle and the decay.
Not bad for a point and shoot, not bad at all.
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| |  |  | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 3 on 1/18/2010 3:30 PM >
| | | | Nice shots, definitely one of my favorite sets! Were those Trampolines in #4?
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 4 on 1/18/2010 3:51 PM >
| | | | Suggestions:
- Watch your vertical lines. Try to make them vertical if possible.
- They seem a little soft. Maybe throw a little unsharp mask on them in pshop (if you have it) and see if that helps.
- Read about Rule of Thirds and see if you can apply that in your shots.
It is a good thing to try new perspectives, photo heights, angles.. etc. Kudos for doing so.
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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Trap
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
| | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 5 on 1/18/2010 4:49 PM >
| | | | Posted by gr8fzy1
Nice shots, definitely one of my favorite sets! Were those Trampolines in #4?
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Yes, that is by far the most rickety old trampoline I've ever seen.
Posted by yokes
Suggestions:
- Watch your vertical lines. Try to make them vertical if possible.
- They seem a little soft. Maybe throw a little unsharp mask on them in pshop (if you have it) and see if that helps.
- Read about Rule of Thirds and see if you can apply that in your shots.
It is a good thing to try new perspectives, photo heights, angles.. etc. Kudos for doing so.
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Vertical lines are something I have trouble with, mostly because of perspective I think. When straightening a photo in PS what lines should I focus on making straight and which should I let go to perspective? Floors should probably be straight, but which walls, columns, wires, etc?
Is there a way to correct the softness in camera or is that just a limitation of my gear? Also, unsharp mask? Seems couter intuitive, but I'll give it a shot. These are all unedited, BTW so any other PS/GIMP tips to make them look better is much apprecited. If anyone wants to use one to demonstrate what they mean, by all means feel free to save the pictures.
And ROT, got it.
Thanks a lot for the tips and for the complements. 
Moodifyed fur speeling
[last edit 1/18/2010 5:15 PM by Trap - edited 3 times]
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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victoria-
Location: The Great North, Ontario
Gender: Female
| | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 6 on 1/18/2010 4:59 PM >
| | | | I love that floor moss. You can never get enough floor moss.
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wildandgreen
Location: south of the south
Gender: Female
stole my smile from a chesire cat
| | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 7 on 1/18/2010 5:19 PM >
| | | | I really like 1 and 3. Being a plant nerd, I particularly like seeing how nature reclaims her territory.
dance like you can't hear the beat |
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Trap
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
| | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 8 on 1/18/2010 8:01 PM >
| | | | Posted by wildandgreen
I really like 1 and 3. Being a plant nerd, I particularly like seeing how nature reclaims her territory.
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This isn't a particularly good shot but it shows how overgrown the gym floor has become:
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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victoria-
Location: The Great North, Ontario
Gender: Female
| | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 9 on 1/18/2010 9:10 PM >
| | | | I can't help but see the hole in the bottom right of the screen, i would not be walking on that.
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Trap
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
| | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 10 on 1/18/2010 10:07 PM >
| | | | Posted by victoria-
I can't help but see the hole in the bottom right of the screen, i would not be walking on that.
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it's actually not a hole, the floor there is really cool because as the slats of wood that the gym floor was made of expanded they warped up and there were these big bulges in the floor that looked like gopher tunnels, that 'hole' is where part of the tunnel has collapsed and you can see down the tube.
[last edit 1/19/2010 3:09 AM by Trap - edited 1 times]
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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WarBird69
Location: Eastern TN
Gender: Male
Atomic Bird of War
| | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 11 on 1/18/2010 10:08 PM >
| | | | I actually got a close-up of that "hole" at the exact moment Shutchatrap was taking that photo. I was just out of frame.
I wouldn't step there either. The wood dome is too beautiful to step on. ;)
EDIT: Beat me to it!
[last edit 1/18/2010 10:09 PM by WarBird69 - edited 1 times]
When twilight draws near, when you are pushed to the very limits of your soul, when it seems that all you have left are the dead remnants of the fabric of your life:
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| | | | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 12 on 1/18/2010 11:19 PM >
| | | | Posted by Shutchatrap
Yes, that is by far the most rickety old trampoline I've ever seen.
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Were you tempted? Even a little?
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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Trap
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
| | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 13 on 1/19/2010 3:08 AM >
| | | | Hehe, no I actually didn't get the urge to risk my limbs on that trampoline!
These are the pics after the unsharpen mask, and with some realignment and some cropping.
Only reposting the ones that came out well...
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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Protios
Location: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia
Gender: Male
To get where you're going, Remember where you've been
| | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 14 on 1/19/2010 11:40 PM >
| | | | no, I think you kind of killed those re-edits personally. Sorry but you overdid the UM I think.
To get where you're going
Remember where you've been |
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Trap
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
| | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 15 on 1/20/2010 12:53 AM >
| | | | Posted by Protios
no, I think you kind of killed those re-edits personally. Sorry but you overdid the UM I think.
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damn, I kinda thought so too, but that was the default setting on the mask... need to tone it back some I guess... but aside from my inability to edit, how can I improve with the camera? I'll work on improving in Photoshop later
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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hydrotherapy
 
Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 16 on 1/20/2010 5:28 PM >
| | | | Posted by Shutchatrap
damn, I kinda thought so too, but that was the default setting on the mask... need to tone it back some I guess... but aside from my inability to edit, how can I improve with the camera? I'll work on improving in Photoshop later
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Keeping your lens clean (in cold weather, breathing near lenses can sometimes cause condensation to form on them) can go a long way toward keeping your photos sharp. Shooting on a tripod with the timer function on and ensuring your camera is stable can all also help avoid the fuzzy effect. I'd also look at using the distortion correction tool in PS on some of your photos- the gym especially seems to have barrel distortion. Most of your shots also seem pretty midtone heavy and a bit underexposed- try adjusting your levels in PS a touch.
Love the bleachers shot.
Here's your gym shot corrected for distortion, vertical and horizontal shift (what Yokes said) and contrast heightened a bit using levels. No UM used.
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| | | | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 17 on 1/21/2010 6:26 AM >
| | | | Posted by hydrotherapy
Here's your gym shot corrected for distortion, vertical and horizontal shift (what Yokes said) and contrast heightened a bit using levels. No UM used.
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LMAO! After looking at Hydro's corrections, I can see why you didn't want to test the trampoline: half the springs are unhooked!
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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Trap
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
| | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 18 on 1/21/2010 3:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by gr8fzy1
LMAO! After looking at Hydro's corrections, I can see why you didn't want to test the trampoline: half the springs are unhooked!
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hehe, they werent even springs they were bungie cords!
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| | | | Re: Where the Green Moss Grows
<Reply # 19 on 1/23/2010 1:53 AM >
| | | | Posted by Shutchatrap
hehe, they weren't even springs they were bungie cords!
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Holy shit.....really? That school must have been SERIOUSLY underfunded! lol!
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glimpsing history. |
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