New Photography group looking for critique!

Joey_Yack · Oct 13, 2012

Hello Photo forum, some friends and I recently started a new photography group called Infinite Reality Photography. We are looking for any advice and critiques of our photos to make them look better!

The URL for our tumblr page is <Link Removed>

All of the photos have been taken by us. Some edited and some not.

Thank you all ahead of time and best regards!

-Joey

MLeeK · Oct 13, 2012

It's kind of asking a bit much, don't you think? You don't participate here, yet you want us to do something for you? Not good form.

I might suggest you bring your group to TPF where you can form a group. You aren't going to get us to spend a ton of time on people outside the forum here.

unpopular · Oct 13, 2012

SPAMCEPTION!

pixmedic · Oct 13, 2012

unpopular said:
SPAMCEPTION!

Its spam within a spam!

Joey_Yack · Oct 14, 2012

My apologizes, signed up for this forum yesterday, I will post photos in the gallerys.

MLeeK · Oct 14, 2012

The galleries won't get you cc. If you want cc you need to post in the appropriate section. Posts should be 3 to 5 images max. Each image should be on a separate line and numbered to make it easier for you and us to know we are always on the same image.
We prefer that you tell us if you were working on something specific or if you are looking for feedback on something in particular. Otherwise you'll get rather generic help that covers the entire image.

Ysarex · Oct 14, 2012

I did actually click on your website link. ARGGGHHHH! I was listening to music at the time. I often listen to music. I was listening to Miles Davis. I had a friend once who had a chance to work with Miles as Miles grew up around here. My friend said listening to Miles Davis was like talking to God. Ok, so here I was talking to God and I click on your website and ARRGGGHHHH! What the bleep was that bleepin' bleep bleep that you thought I'd want to here it instead of God??!!!

Don't ever do that -- ever! If you want music on your site that's fine. Don't you start it and make me find a way to stop it. You offer me the option to start it.

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Because I'm such a nice guy I didn't bolt instantly from your site given the auditory assault. I took the trouble to stop it and look at your photos. MLeek is right -- to many photos all at one time, but I'll give you some tips on a few. This photo:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb6oe33XeR1rhlv4po1_500.png

The sky isn't that color. Your red channel is massively clipped. The oversaturation of the foreground doesn't look so much deliberate as it looks like bad processing. Shift the horizon line up or down but don't leave it where it is. If you're going to take something beyond the limits of believable reality you have to go far enough so that the viewer doesn't just think you screwed up.

Here's a hint: Don't show folks here the photo of the red car or green bug or the butterfly on the rocks until you've done a forum search on the topic selective coloring. Gsgary will proclaim a fatwa on you.

This photo:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb64fdAyOu1rhlv4po1_500.jpg

Stop blowing out your highlights. This isn't the only photo with blown highlights. If you do blow the highlights throw the photo away, don't show it off! There's one thing worse than blown highlights and that's blown highlights that someone has dragged down to a flat grey. Your sky here is multicolored. The sky on earth gradates from dark to light; zenith to horizon, but it doesn't shift hue like that. Just above the horizon in this photo that sky is nearly green. The grass is too blue and there's a lot of CA showing through the tree branches.

All of your photos are erratically tagged for colorspace. Some have no profiles and some have inappropriate profiles. If you're going to display photos for people to view on the Internet you need to make sure all the photos have an embedded ICC profile that specifies the sRGB colorspace.

Welcome to the Photo Forum. I'm going to be frank with you, you guys need some work. You've come to the right place -- there are folks here who can and will help. I'm Joe.

Joey_Yack · Oct 15, 2012

Thanks for the replies, my apologizes again. Ill make it so you have to manually start the music on the website, as for the criticism, I will take that into consideration next time I'm shooting. Thank you for the help! Nice to meet you Joe.