Did i Finally Find a Photographic Style? C&C Please!

[D-B-J]

More critiques on the post processing, but critiques on the photo is welcome as well.

Unedited:

Edited:

Regards,
Jake

 

[Ryan L]

The first thing I think of is...man that dog must pee everywhere on that yard. lol

I dont see much of a style in here. I see editing of changing the hue of the grass, and upping exposure a hair, added a little sharpening.

 

[IgsEMT]

ditto on the style. Only see editing, not style

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Style will come in time. It may take years for it to develop. Don't force it. Let it be genuinely yours.

 

[mickmac]

No

 

[D-B-J]

Style will come in time. It may take years for it to develop. Don't force it. Let it be genuinely yours.

I guess i am trying too hard. I've just noticed a trend lately where my photo's tend to come out in this style.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Well, then run with it. It will still grow and change over time.

 

[D-B-J]

Well, then run with it. It will still grow and change over time.

I guess i shall.

 

[Overread36]

I totally second Bitter's comments, a photographic style is something that really one has to almost fall into rather than try to force out' at least that is the pattern for many. The other method is finding another style that you like and learning to emulate it (which in turn teaches you new skills and will also, over time, change into your own take on the style itself).

Best thing you can do is to always keep your mind open to new interpretations, opinions and methods (both in camera and in editing) - learning and having diversity of skills is a big thing that helps you develop, mature and choose a style to shoot


As for the shot you might find that burning some of the select areas of the whites on the dogs face might well help as these appear to have or be very close to blowing out. If you shoot in RAW chances are the details are still there to be recovered and you can duel process the RAW - once for normal and once for the whites alone - and then merge the results manually with layermasks in editing.

 

[Derrel]

Critique on the photo? Too much dead space off to the side, and an unsetting feeling of a body-less dog, floating in space. The dog is seated, upright, head up, ears erect, active....you've framed this actively-posed dog using a passive, relaxed, horizontal or "landscape" framing orientation. The first decision you made was the most critical...how to frame the picture....how to compose it....is it a shot of the dog, or of the grass? How much space is the dog allotted? How much space does the grass take up in the final composition? WHY is the dog over to the right, looking OUT of the frame? This is not a style I would want to pursue.

This is a Nikon D2x viewfinder screen cap I made: see the top series of AF brackets??? THose are placed on the subjkect's face, and Group Dynamic AF is used...it's a deadly method to get peerfwevtly in-focus eyes using THAT camera's AF system...your D7000 might do just as well using a 5- or 9-point type of Grouped AF pattern.

 

[sleist]

If and when you do develop a "style", I would think you would need more than one photo to show how that "style" expresses itself for different compositions and subjects.

 

[DiskoJoe]

There is no way for any of us to determine if you have a unique style based upon the edit from one photo. we would need to see an entire portfolio of your work in order to make this determination.

 

[RauschPhotography]

Well, then run with it. It will still grow and change over time.

Bitter, you sound like you have the knowledge and insight of a Jedi! :lmao:

 

[eric rose]

Style is something that takes years to develop and it's usually something that other people point out to you rather than a conscious effort to follow a particular path.