A few for C&Ct

er111a · May 12, 2010

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(anything wrong?)
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thank you your thoughts mean alot to me

Bitter Jeweler · May 12, 2010

Bitter Jeweler said:
er111111a, do yourself and everyone a favor.

Everytime you post an image with heavy processing, you need to explain what you hoped to achieve with it. You have to tell everyone why you think it works. You need to think about why you are using a cutout frame. What does it add? What feel does it give? Does it make the image BETTER, or at least more interesting? If you can't answer why you are doing things, then you need to take a step back. If you do them just because the filters are there, or just to experiment, fine. You still need to understand why things work, when they work, and how far is too far.

Can you do that?
Please?

er111a said:
will do bitter

:roll:

:waiting:

scorpion_tyr · May 12, 2010

1. Something is out of service... but what? The shot is boring, and the color is horrible.

2. I like this one, it catches my eye, and it's late and my eyes are tired so maybe that's why, but I can't tell if it's broken glass or a sawed off tree trunk.

3. I can see a smiley face in the shot, but I have to look really really hard. It's pretty boring besides that.

4. What's with the purple? Doesn't look natural at all. And did the focus monster steal your focal point? I don't see it.

5. Was a pretty good shot until you added the vignetting. The tree does a good job of framing the boats, which seem like the subject of the photograph, so you don't need the vignetting. You REALLY don't need it to cover up your subject. Before you learn HOW to apply these, learn WHEN and WHERE.

6. Boring. No real subject, color is off.

7. If you can re-take this shot, line it up just like it is, then lower the elevation on the camera a few inches. Use a smaller aperature to achieve a deeper DOF. Focus on the lip or the bottom of the neck of the bottle, not the base. Not a bad shot though.

flea77 · May 12, 2010

The last one is the only one that does anything for me, and I think that would have been better shot on B&W film. Most just have too much processing for my taste. Sorry :-(

Allan

er111a · May 12, 2010

I know bitter I know, but its hard to do that for 7 photos and I was in a hurry next time I promise

er111a · May 12, 2010

flea77 said:
The last one is the only one that does anything for me, and I think that would have been better shot on B&W film. Most just have too much processing for my taste. Sorry :-(

Allan

4 and 7 are the only ones with pp tho

and its ok

Bitter Jeweler · May 13, 2010

er111a said:
4 and 7 are the only ones with pp tho

I call shenanigans!

Sbuxo · May 13, 2010

Glittered up trash.
In the end, they're all trash.
#1: you should have just deleted it.
#2 & #3 are hurtful to look at and are so closely cropped, it just reminds me of a texture you can use in PP. Not that I look those either.
#4: is one of the alright ones from the batch, but you have a serious problem with contrast and saturation.
#5: there's a horrible cyan blowout in the middle of it.
#6: *yawn*
#7: Looks like a drunken shot, imo. You're PP to your disadvantage. I think this would have been okay with a vintage treatment. I don't like the texture on the left either.

From other threads you've posted showing your work, I can't say that I enjoy any of it. Lay off the PS a little...
:fangs:

Caution: There is no sarcasm in the above text.

Josh220 · May 13, 2010

Sbuxo said:
Glittered up trash.
In the end, they're all trash.
#1: you should have just deleted it.
#2 & #3 are hurtful to look at and are so closely cropped, it just reminds me of a texture you can use in PP. Not that I look those either.
#4: is one of the alright ones from the batch, but you have a serious problem with contrast and saturation.
#5: there's a horrible cyan blowout in the middle of it.
#6: *yawn*
#7: Looks like a drunken shot, imo. You're PP to your disadvantage. I think this would have been okay with a vintage treatment. I don't like the texture on the left either.

From other threads you've posted showing your work, I can't say that I enjoy any of it. Lay off the PS a little...

Caution: There is no sarcasm in the above text.

Ouch.

I can't say I disagree though...

fokker · May 13, 2010

I've lost count of the number of times you've been advised to ease up on the processing. It just doesn't seem to sink in with you. Maybe that's why your threads always get so many replies, because half of them are just cut and pasted from other threads saying to stop overprocessing your shots.

er111a · May 13, 2010

I ONLY DID PP ON 2 OF EM :"(

rusty9 · May 13, 2010

er111a said:
4 and 7 are the only ones with pp tho and its ok

false
#1 - there is selective coloring. selective coloring = pp
#4 - bad coloring = pp
#5 - obviously a vignette going on here = pp
#6 - seriously, how could you say no pp for this when there is a rainbow gradient in the sky, with bad transitions might i add = pp
#7 - funky filter = pp

i bet there's some in 2 and 3 but it's not obvious.
the only one that does anything for me is #5

do yourself a favor and uninstall PS. post some shots straight from the camera.

burstintoflame81 · May 13, 2010

Apparently you like posting pics for C+C over and over again but never listen to the advice given to you. All of your pics are heavily processed, and not even with any skill or precision. Its like a three year old with a pack of digital crayons. Then you have the audacity to say you only Post Processed 2 of them? What a joke.

shmne · May 13, 2010

What kind of camera are you using? It looks like there is a lot of pixel damage or chromatic aberration going on. Something weird anyway, a lot of the shadows are pushed to purple; appears also that there is a lot of discoloration going on.

Overall these are really just texture heavy shots for the most part. Texture shots are great for your own collection, as they give you the ability to look back at them for ideas, or even use them in later photos with some manipulation. As far as showing them off as photographs however, it tends to not go as far unless you have a very strong understanding of lines and curvature. Maybe next time slow down a bit when taking the photos, and really examine what is going on around you. Look at the lighting, not the colors or shapes, and really think about what would be good to shoot.

If I had to guess there is something major going on with the camera that was used, because if you don't do any post processing than that harsh gradient of colors in #6 should look very different. Light doesn't create solid lines of a saturated blue to an unsaturated gray like that.