C&C much needed. thanx

clanthar · Aug 11, 2011

oedemo said:
DSC_0026 by oedemo, on Flickr

I'd say crop out the woman in the purple shirt walking out of the frame right, but that's not going to help the fact that your subject has a guy in a red ball hat on a phone growing out of the top of her head.

Joe

OrionsByte · Aug 11, 2011

Bob in GV said:
Are any of you A'holes gonna C&C this guy's frickin' pictures? He learned how to post, now how about some respect for his original request?

You could have started you know. No need to come in and just yell at everyone else; lead the charge, ya know?

As far as MY C&C goes:

#1 is okay. I would have preferred a bit more room around the subject, and I think it would have been stronger if the focus was on the tip, with the DOF fading towards the back, instead of the way it is now with the focal plane a bit behind the tip (leaving the tip out of focus). I'm not suggesting that the most foreground part of an image should sways be the part in focus, but or this image I think it would be better.

#2 is decent, but nothing special. I'm not sure I can suggest much technically wrong with it, but it's kind of a standard bridge shot that I imagine several hundred other people have duplicated. This spot would be fun to visit at sunrise or sunset to really get a nice quality of light, and HDR techniques might be fun to play with too. Try backing off the zoom a little to get the horizon a little higher in the frame, and always make sure the horizon is level (unless you have a good reason not to, but while you're learning, I'd suggest that you don't have a good reason yet

).

#3 and #4 are just snapshots; the subjects are centered and they look like shots of opportunity rather than of planning. They're well-exposed but there's not much to critique artistically. How do you feel about them? Why did you want to share them? Perhaps if we have some more info on these and what you were trying to do with them we can give you some more direction.

clanthar · Aug 11, 2011

oedemo said:
DSC_0042 by oedemo, on Flickr

Never use a flash that is physically part of or attached to the camera unless you're photographing news or your three year old's birthday party.

Your photos have their ICC profiles stripped out. Whatever you did to cause that trashed your photos.

Joe

wlbphoto · Aug 11, 2011

clanthar said:
oedemo said:

DSC_0026 by oedemo, on Flickr

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I'd say crop out the woman in the purple shirt walking out of the frame right, but that's not going to help the fact that your subject has a guy in a red ball hat on a phone growing out of the top of her head.

Joe

fixed

clanthar · Aug 11, 2011

oedemo said:
DSC_0023 by oedemo, on Flickr

The red channel in this photo is completely clipped. The photo's ICC profile has been stripped out. I'm not aware of the existence of any camera or RAW converter that doesn't embed an ICC profile in an RGB photo, so you're using software that is stripping out the ICC profile -- very bad.

Joe

oedemo · Aug 11, 2011

WOW! How did you do that???? Where did the guy go?

oedemo · Aug 11, 2011

Ok explain that in plain english. I didn't edit it with a software. I simply used my nikon D40

oedemo · Aug 12, 2011

Thanx for asking. I wanted to share to see what a technical minded person would see or say, to help me see things from a more technical point of view. I like those shots in the sense that they looked good, wasn't quite sure of its artistic value.

wlbphoto · Aug 12, 2011

oedemo said:
WOW! How did you do that???? Where did the guy go?

i killed him

clanthar · Aug 12, 2011

oedemo said:
Ok explain that in plain english. I didn't edit it with a software. I simply used my nikon D40

The red channel is clipped: Your photo is composed of three color channels R (red) G (green) B (blue). Values in each channel range from 0 to 255. If all three channels have a 0 value for a given pixel then that pixel is black. R = 127, G = 127, B = 127 is a grey pixel. Each pixel in your photo has a color that can be identified as R = x, G = x, B = x. R = 100, G = 145, B = 205 would be a pixel in a clear blue sky.

In your flower photo there are collections of pixels that should be representing the reds of the flower. However all the red channel values are just pegged at 255. As a result you've lost variations in tone and color.

Every RGB photo must have an embedded ICC profile in order to correctly decode the colors in the photo. Your camera embeds that profile when it delivers a JPEG file. Somewhere in the process of transferring the photo from the camera to Flickr, software that you used stripped out that ICC profile effectively trashing your photos. Flickr doesn't do it so it happened between the camera and Flickr.

Joe