HILARIOUS!

[rexbobcat]

BECAUSE they are her friends.... and don't want to be mean.... so they keep sugar coating everything and telling her everything is great!

They're mentioned throughout this and other threads but they offer no substantial help. My friends would allow me to tag along on photo shoots and spend time explaining how things work and why, also give instructions on best ways to work on learning, maybe the ways they did. This is the way I treat my friends.
I don't believe I'd want friends who wouldn't be truthful or open when I was interested in their opinion of my work.

ahhh but alas, you are not a female. again, this is a very male dominated board, so the cc is harsher, such is true in the real world.... women, we tend to fluff our friends feathers....

Maybe some of her friends aren't photography-inclined as well? I mean, most of my friends don't take photos, so I could take a rather mediocre shot and they'd be wow'ed by it.

My response is usually just "...really....you like that one....seriously?"

 

[vtf]

BECAUSE they are her friends.... and don't want to be mean.... so they keep sugar coating everything and telling her everything is great!

They're mentioned throughout this and other threads but they offer no substantial help. My friends would allow me to tag along on photo shoots and spend time explaining how things work and why, also give instructions on best ways to work on learning, maybe the ways they did. This is the way I treat my friends.
I don't believe I'd want friends who wouldn't be truthful or open when I was interested in their opinion of my work.

ahhh but alas, you are not a female. again, this is a very male dominated board, so the cc is harsher, such is true in the real world.... women, we tend to fluff our friends feathers....

I'll wait for my original question to be answered before I assume.

 

[vtf]

They're mentioned throughout this and other threads but they offer no substantial help. My friends would allow me to tag along on photo shoots and spend time explaining how things work and why, also give instructions on best ways to work on learning, maybe the ways they did. This is the way I treat my friends.
I don't believe I'd want friends who wouldn't be truthful or open when I was interested in their opinion of my work.

ahhh but alas, you are not a female. again, this is a very male dominated board, so the cc is harsher, such is true in the real world.... women, we tend to fluff our friends feathers....

Maybe some of her friends aren't photography-inclined as well? I mean, most of my friends don't take photos, so I could take a rather mediocre shot and they'd be wow'ed by it.

My response is usually just "...really....you like that one....seriously?"

Really need to read the whole series of quotes.

 

[MLeeK]

ahhh but alas, you are not a female. again, this is a very male dominated board, so the cc is harsher, such is true in the real world.... women, we tend to fluff our friends feathers....

I prefer to think we are more MOM-ish... We tend to be nurturing and encouraging.

 

[MTVision]

I'll wait for my original question to be answered before I assume.

I know that one of the photographers amoment talks about lives in another state - pretty far away.

 

[AMOMENT]

Actually my main photog friend lives in texas so I can't tag along with her unfortunately. She is brutally honest which I love because when I finally do fix something and she tells me I know she is not just fluffing my feathers. I have a friend who is by no means a prof but we share the hobby and learning experience. Her father is the prof photographer or actuAlly was because he is now a minister. He has shown me a lot and taught me a lot but he really doesn't do too much of it anymore. The other is my moms friend who also lives far away but we email sometimes. Both of those men don't really fb but send me lots of reading material. The one in Texas is really who I admire most and she gives me so much guidance. I will say that her advice is a little more liberal in that she believes in putting the book down and learning hands on more. I think I explained that I recently tried everyone's suggestions such as raising my shutter and f stop. I shot at 5.6 and a shutter sp of 1/200 -600 range outdoors and stood 10 feet away from my subject. The pics were horribly noisy and blurry. I posted those on another site, as mentioned, and they even said my settings seemed right and yet the photos did look off for those setting as.... So much so they suggested I have my camera looked at. I did find that my sharpness setting was real low and my default ISo was real high and since then my pics have seemed better. I haven't posted any of those. The ones I posted most recently were with a flash because someone on here sent me a tutorial about using your flash regularly for shadows etc. I stay on here because although I find people can be bit hostile I have learned a lot and I know how experienced everyone is. I really don't mind tough cc on my photos just don't care for it about me from strangers. That's all.

 

[AMOMENT]

Sorry that was one huge paragraph I sent it from my iphone

 

[unpopular]

I did find that my sharpness setting was real low and my default ISo was real high and since then my pics have seemed better

Well, that's the start of your problems: the words "default settings".

Also, you should shoot with low sharpness settings and provide USM or HP or whatever sharpening routine you prefer in post.

 

[enzodm]

ABABYSEAN WOW! That photo is amazing! What camera do you have/settings did you use?

eye, brain, good taste.

 

[MTVision]

Actually my main photog friend lives in texas so I can't tag along with her unfortunately. She is brutally honest which I love because when I finally do fix something and she tells me I know she is not just fluffing my feathers. I have a friend who is by no means a prof but we share the hobby and learning experience. Her father is the prof photographer or actuAlly was because he is now a minister. He has shown me a lot and taught me a lot but he really doesn't do too much of it anymore. The other is my moms friend who also lives far away but we email sometimes. Both of those men don't really fb but send me lots of reading material. The one in Texas is really who I admire most and she gives me so much guidance. I will say that her advice is a little more liberal in that she believes in putting the book down and learning hands on more. I think I explained that I recently tried everyone's suggestions such as raising my shutter and f stop. I shot at 5.6 and a shutter sp of 1/200 -600 range outdoors and stood 10 feet away from my subject. The pics were horribly noisy and blurry. I posted those on another site, as mentioned, and they even said my settings seemed right and yet the photos did look off for those setting as.... So much so they suggested I have my camera looked at. I did find that my sharpness setting was real low and my default ISo was real high and since then my pics have seemed better. I haven't posted any of those. The ones I posted most recently were with a flash because someone on here sent me a tutorial about using your flash regularly for shadows etc. I stay on here because although I find people can be bit hostile I have learned a lot and I know how experienced everyone is. I really don't mind tough cc on my photos just don't care for it about me from strangers. That's all.

If your camera wasn't set to auto ISO and you were actually setting the ISO in manual mode and the Picture was taken with the ISO you set then I don't really know why your pictures would be noisy because of the default setting. If anything the pictures were noisy because you underexposed and/or brightened/raised exposure in post. If your taking a picture at ISO 100 then your default has nothing to do with it. On the other forum the most recent pictures were taken at ISO 100, f/5.6 and 1/30 with your speedlight. Not too sure why these would be noisy unless you used fill light, exposure or brightness in post.

Anything shot at ISO 100, 200, 400 that has a lot of noise is due to under exposure or something you are doing in post. The sharpness setting and the default ISO setting has nothing to do with it. Are you talking about the ISO sensitivity in the camera menu? Even if that was set really high - you can still change it in manual mode which is what you must be doing since none of the photos you have posted are shot at high ISO's.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

So many pages of "pure winning thread" thus far

 

[unpopular]

Where is that matrix kid, anyway?

 

[GeorgieGirl]

This is riduculous at this point.

 

[ababysean]

I am betting the photo was likely underexposed so when you tried to bring it back in PSE (or gimp, or CS5 or whatever) that is what brought the grain and loss of detail into the shot. Those settings mean NOTHING with noise. I can take a picture at those settings and so what? It depends on YOUR light at the time. and you can't just say oh it was mid day, so what.... where were you standing, how was the light hitting the subject...



There will be a second where everythign for whatever reason will just click, and you will want to smack yourself in the face because you didn't get it before.... and that will be when you improve on something, and then you rock the exposure but your composition will fail.... your backgrounds.... it goes on and on and on...

 

[cgipson1]

We can only hope!