C&C please if you dont' mind

[jamesdavidboro]

I like it Chevy! Very rustic.

 

[ChevyBaby]

lol thanks james, rustic was what i was goin for, it just needed somethin ott about it imo.

 

[cyngus]

put all three of them together side by side and make a little "story" out of the shots rather than try to make 1 compelling and super interesting..

 

[chito beach]

i dunno..... lol

That is downright miserable attempt at an edit, poor composition, centered subject, way oversaturated, it does not follow any of the rules of good photography

 

[jamesdavidboro]

Rules are meant for breaking!!

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Rules are meant for breaking!!

*sigh*

You are not breaking rules if you don't understand them to begin with.
Furthermore, breaking rules does not a successful image make.

 

[NikonNewbie]

Well, like I said...I took a lot because the house that was on the reserve is old and had this barn, a well and a couple sheds, and they were all sinking or leaning, there was a birdhouse in the back that was on a pole and I took pics of that too, but the damned thing was leaning so bad I couldn't do anything to make it right...but even through all these weird things I found the house and barn pleasing to look at, reminded me of one of those things you would find on Americana or Country craft type of pics...kwim?
But yes...you are right, I am still learning, and I'm enjoying every minute of it...with that said, when I wake up, I'll take my adderall and get back to the DSLR and Photoshop cs2 for DUMMIES book and hope to retain the info.

 

[chito beach]

Well, like I said...I took a lot because the house that was on the reserve is old and had this barn, a well and a couple sheds, and they were all sinking or leaning, there was a birdhouse in the back that was on a pole and I took pics of that too, but the damned thing was leaning so bad I couldn't do anything to make it right...but even through all these weird things I found the house and barn pleasing to look at, reminded me of one of those things you would find on Americana or Country craft type of pics...kwim?
But yes...you are right, I am still learning, and I'm enjoying every minute of it...with that said, when I wake up, I'll take my adderall and get back to the DSLR and Photoshop cs2 for DUMMIES book and hope to retain the info.

The biggest problems I see are all of your shots are cropped to tight. you loose the sense of what you liked about the area. need some sky and ground around the buildings to add interest, the setting is part of what makes em rustic

 

[NikonNewbie]

Well, like I said...I took a lot because the house that was on the reserve is old and had this barn, a well and a couple sheds, and they were all sinking or leaning, there was a birdhouse in the back that was on a pole and I took pics of that too, but the damned thing was leaning so bad I couldn't do anything to make it right...but even through all these weird things I found the house and barn pleasing to look at, reminded me of one of those things you would find on Americana or Country craft type of pics...kwim?
But yes...you are right, I am still learning, and I'm enjoying every minute of it...with that said, when I wake up, I'll take my adderall and get back to the DSLR and Photoshop cs2 for DUMMIES book and hope to retain the info.

The biggest problems I see are all of your shots are cropped to tight. you loose the sense of what you liked about the area. need some sky and ground around the buildings to add interest, the setting is part of what makes em rustic

ok...thanks for telling me that, when you say cropped to tight...do you mean taken to up close? because I didn't crop anything in the camera or on photoshop, please if you could tell me, I think when I took them I was standing on the dirt road in front of the house (for the first two) and the last one I was basically 15 feet away from it and I think I shot them all at 55, since that's the highest camera goes up to, also, Im not sure if I used the landscape mode or not.
I'm sorry if I ask too many questions, I would hate to keep doing what I'm doing and just being repetitive...what I do sometimes that my husband just hates is...I turn the camera sideways so I can get the length of the photo instead of taking rectangular (beautiful tech talk from me, huh )
My desire is great...my know how is lacking

 

[NikonNewbie]

Ok, here are the other ones I took, just so you can see what I saw...

with this one...is this what you mean by crop? because if it is...my thought was if I want to take this picture with the height of the barn, but make it appear a little further away, I'd have to turn the camera (and that shadow is most likely one of my kids...lol)

 

[twoboysnmygirl]

I think what was meant was you need some more landscape for the eye to look at as well. I would have shot it with the sky/landscape and then the barn in the right part of the frame. In other words...back up even more! :mrgreen:

and use the rule of thirds...don't put the barn smack-dab in the middle of the frame!

Here's an example, there are issues with this shot as well,(it's too soft, etc.) but I just grabbed the closest barn shot I could to show you what I meant by composition and having more landscape. In this instance, I couldn't back up anymore, so I didn't shoot the whole barn but made sure I had lots of landscape for the eye to look at as well...

 

[NikonNewbie]

I think what was meant was you need some more landscape for the eye to look at as well. I would have shot it with the sky/landscape and then the barn in the right part of the frame. In other words...back up even more! :mrgreen:

and use the rule of thirds...don't put the barn smack-dab in the middle of the frame!

Here's an example, there are issues with this shot as well,(it's too soft, etc.) but I just grabbed the closest barn shot I could to show you what I meant by composition and having more landscape. In this instance, I couldn't back up anymore, so I didn't shoot the whole barn but made sure I had lots of landscape for the eye to look at as well...

I like that!

 

[Ron Evers]

Over saturated Chevy.

 

[ChevyBaby]

chito and jeweler leave me the **** alone. wtf is your problem????? your actually bullying me and arent you a moderator BJ?? I've been nothing but ****ing nice to EVERYONE and i was only using what i had in that image, the image is too tightly cropped to get anything better out of it, i was just ****ing around with it and as i said, i wanted to give it something OTT. **** OFF.

 

[chito beach]

chito and jeweler leave me the **** alone. wtf is your problem????? your actually bullying me and arent you a moderator BJ?? I've been nothing but ****ing nice to EVERYONE and i was only using what i had in that image, the image is too tightly cropped to get anything better out of it, i was just ****ing around with it and as i said, i wanted to give it something OTT. **** OFF.

Actually his original was much better than your crop.

he's no idea what i've been through in my life to make me grow and how it's inspired my work. 6 years of intense education has taught me everything you guys talk about in this forum and more so how am i inferior?

The only thing that's different is my training has been focused mainly on analogue cameras up until now when ive started showing an interest in digital which uses entirely different methods but as far as this particular thread is concerned, he shouldn't have been judging that.

The basics remain the same the rules dont change between Analog and Digital.

You are going around this site spouting your wonderful education and knowledge base working with all these famous Photographers but we have yet to see any of that brilliance show through on anything you have posted here.

The problem is that your attitude is that of one superiority to many on this site.

Your posts come across as arrogant

Im sure you are a great guy and very talented but you have not shown that here