Beginner showing off. C&C please!

LBMathers · Oct 26, 2012

Hello! This is a mixed post with my favourite shots (all are made and edited by me). I am a beginner and I would really like to hear C&C to know in which way I can improve my technique either in editing of photos or photography.
Thank you in advance!

Majeed Badizadegan · Oct 26, 2012

Try to keep your CC requests to 2-3 images. It takes about 5 minutes to do a good job commenting per image, so you are asking for a lot of time from complete strangers when you post too many.

Although all these images have technical problems, I like your shot of the kitty.

MLeeK · Oct 26, 2012

First and foremost-get your monitor calibrated.
They look like nice shots in general. Very dark which is a result of an uncalibrated monitor. Assuming the second one is a silhouette of the subjects it's pretty good for light to dark.

LBMathers · Oct 26, 2012

Try to keep your CC requests to 2-3 images. It takes about 5 minutes to do a good job commenting per image, so you are asking for a lot of time from complete strangers when you post too many.

Although all these images have technical problems, I like your shot of the kitty.

Thank you for your comment, I will try not to make this mistake again. I know I will have to work to improve my skill, that's why I wanted to hear the C&C.

First and foremost-get your monitor calibrated.
They look like nice shots in general. Very dark which is a result of an uncalibrated monitor. Assuming the second one is a silhouette of the subjects it's pretty good for light to dark.

Ahh I know I have that problem, because I saw the pictures look different on the laptop, but thank you for your advice!

But in the 2nd and 4th picture I made it on purpose darker because of the silhouettes. Thank you again for your comment!

dorian7 · Oct 26, 2012

LBMathers said:
Try to keep your CC requests to 2-3 images. It takes about 5 minutes to do a good job commenting per image, so you are asking for a lot of time from complete strangers when you post too many.

Although all these images have technical problems, I like your shot of the kitty.

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Thank you for your comment, I will try not to make this mistake again. I know I will have to work to improve my skill, that's why I wanted to hear the C&C.

First and foremost-get your monitor calibrated.
They look like nice shots in general. Very dark which is a result of an uncalibrated monitor. Assuming the second one is a silhouette of the subjects it's pretty good for light to dark.

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Ahh I know I have that problem, because I saw the pictures look different on the laptop, but thank you for your advice! But in the 2nd and 4th picture I made it on purpose darker because of the silhouettes. Thank you again for your comment!

I see what you were going for and it can certainly look really cool but I think that you need to work on making the silhouette black, because like the others mentioned it is kind of half way in between where it seems like you may just have under exposed not on purpose. try under exposing a little more, you should get a better looking sky and your foreground will be black!

dorian7 · Oct 26, 2012

Here is an example of what I am talking about (very rough photoshop edit). But it gets the point.

LBMathers · Oct 27, 2012

I see what you were going for and it can certainly look really cool but I think that you need to work on making the silhouette black, because like the others mentioned it is kind of half way in between where it seems like you may just have under exposed not on purpose. try under exposing a little more, you should get a better looking sky and your foreground will be black!

Thank you for the advice! Also, I like your version of the picture better!