Self

imchristinak · May 3, 2010

great moments with my plants. anyone have a relationship with random household objects? i'd love to see. :sillysmi:

the composition is all over the place because my camera was resting on the arm of my couch.

sauce839 · May 3, 2010

your white balance is off... and why are you afraid of the plants?

stone_family3 · May 3, 2010

Great fun, randomness. They do look a bit blue but could have great potential if you play with them a bit in photoshop.

imchristinak · May 3, 2010

sauce839 said:
your white balance is off... and why are you afraid of the plants?

because it has it's angry face on.

got it edited. is it better?

c.cloudwalker · May 3, 2010

Love the idea. It is wonderful and worth exploring further once you figure out the technical side of photography. However that is all I love. The images themselves are really not that good.

1/ Why are they so blue?

2/ Why does your couch have anything to do with the framing changing from one shot to the next? Does your couch move on its own?

3/ Why is this titled "Self"? "Great Moments with my Plants" would have been much better imho.

4/ Yes, I have a relationship with some household objects but I don't consider plants to be objects. And yours look healthy enough that I have a feeling you don't either.

Please fix your WB, pick a dead piece of furniture to hold your camera (with a bean bag?) and try again. I would love to see better results.

imchristinak · May 4, 2010

c.cloudwalker said:
Love the idea. It is wonderful and worth exploring further once you figure out the technical side of photography. However that is all I love. The images themselves are really not that good.

1/ Why are they so blue?

2/ Why does your couch have anything to do with the framing changing from one shot to the next? Does your couch move on its own?

3/ Why is this titled "Self"? "Great Moments with my Plants" would have been much better imho.

4/ Yes, I have a relationship with some household objects but I don't consider plants to be objects. And yours look healthy enough that I have a feeling you don't either.

Please fix your WB, pick a dead piece of furniture to hold your camera (with a bean bag?) and try again. I would love to see better results.

thanks guys for the comments. it's very much appreciated.

the reason why the shots are all different is because i picked up my camera to check the shots that I got so the positioning was messed up. also, the arm of the sofa is rounded so I tried to get it as straight as possible but it probably moved when I let go of the camera. a more carefully planned out batch shall come to be judged once again.

thanks again guys.

max3k · May 4, 2010

actually, i am a little afraid of that 2nd plant from the right....

imchristinak · May 5, 2010

max3k said:
actually, i am a little afraid of that 2nd plant from the right....

i couldn't agree with you more. it's got a side kick and all.

ok. so i retook the pictures. i really liked the stripes and am not really digging the pink top but oh wells. i'm not sure what i did with the bottom left picture but something about it bothers me.

SusanMart · May 6, 2010

I love the idea you came up with....and I think each of us can be in all of these states depending on a day!

as for the quality...I think something is wrong with your lightning) but the last edited one is def better) contrast it even more. that should be it!