New Photos for C&C Please.

[bazooka]

Ok, because you're so gosh-darn persistent, I'll pick the first two images I see. By the way, I don't know which ones are recent, and which ones are not. And your link isn't working.


Peacock... #1 I guess. Colorful subject. It seems a touch underexposed, which is most likely due to the light-tone wall behind the bird. Had you metered off the dirt, you would have gotten a better exposure. Either use exposure lock, or manual mode if your camera is equipped.

It also looks like you are shooting from above the bird. This contributes to the overall "I'm a bird stuck in a cage in a zoo" feeling. Get down to eye level.

The wall detracts for 3 reasons. It's lighter than anything else in the frame. Light attracts/distracts. It's *generally* better for the subject to be the lightest tone in the image. Second reason is the wall is running diagonally. This creates tension, drawing more attention to it and screwing up the feeling of the image, which I would think should be calming or beautiful. Which leads to #3, it is not a beautiful wall. It's painted cinder block. Get that out of frame or out of focus. Take your pick. Pun intended.

The ground isn't particularly attractive either. The best way to make that minimal is a couple of points above, shoot the bird at eye level. This makes the ground a much smaller part of the frame.

Finally, fill the frame with the bird. This is really just a journalistic shot of a bird so let's get as much detail as we can by getting in as tight as you can.

#2... walking tiger, hidden contrast. Really though, blacks in this shot aren't black, they're much lighter. This can, and needs to be, adjusted in post. RAW is easier of course, but I doubt your camera has the ability. I bet it can shoot TIF, which may give you better results than JPG as TIF is uncompressed so you'll have more to work with. Not ideal, but let's just make do with what you have.

Again, eye level, eye level, eye level. How cool would it have been to shoot this portrait crop, eye level, him looking right at you filling the frame? Perhaps the shooting condition wouldn't allow this. Well, imagine it anyway as it's a good exercise to imagine awsome photos, and 'what if' photos. Take a moment to think about it... think of a subject that interests you. Now, in your mind, think of the most awsome image of it... feel free to use the most awsome angles, most awsome backgrounds, and the most awsome lighting. Now, can you recreate that shot in reality? 9 times out of 10 you can. Well, unless it's involving a vicious wild animal. Then it's probably safe to just leave it in your head.

 

[photo guy]

Thank you Tony S for taking the time to look and comment. I appreciate it. They were taken at the local park in the mid afternoon (2:45 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.). I had to deal with a lot of lighting issues due to the angle of the sun. I also talked to a park employee who I am friends with before I even started to shoot at 2:45 P.M. and got some helpful tips from him on when to shoot the animals there in the future for better photos. He too said that I should open an online album since so many people are looking for animal shots. I will be working on that this next week sometime.

 

[photo guy]

Thank you bazooka. These were at the local park on Nov. 11, 2011. The peacocks are hard to photograph since they keep moving around so much. And that is a moving Cougar. The cougar and lion exibits have windows that you have to shoot through. With the angle of the sun, reflection issues that I had to deal with, and the glass it made it hard to get some decent shots. I took 5 shots at different angles of the cougers inside before I finally got at least this somewhat decent of a shot. Thank you again. I will be trying to photograph them again on a different day at a different time.

 

[thereyougo!14 2]

Please Photo Guy, get a flickr/photobucket/picasa account. This will keep coming up until you do. In one of your recent posts on here, post no 12, you say they are the most recent ones. By asking for CC you are asking people a favour. People will grow very tired of going back and forward, and you will end up getting no responses and some smart a$$ responses. Having an account with flickr etc will also help you to showcase what you do as I said before. It's so much easier to refer back and for you in fact to see comments. It might also be constructive for you to enable people to edit your photos to demonstrate how you can improve - that is of course your decision. Don't expect Bazooka etc to cave in all the time....

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

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[photo guy]

I will be working on getting a photo accout next week. The newest photos were taken on 11/11/2011 and are indicated with the photos. It seems some people are getting more responces with C&C than I am. I guess it just depends on who you are. I specialize in Fire Dept. photography though I am trying to expand to other areas and can hardly get any responces that are positive here (Comments on the pics themselves) compared to remarks on how to post them or where to post them. I was actually thinking about posting my first self potrait for C&C though I may not now due to the low photo comments and so much bashing for not having them on a photo site. If you would like to see it, let me know.

 

[mangtarn]

WE ARE 21 POSTS INTO THIS THREAD AND I STILL DON'T SEE ANY PHOTOS!

 

[MTVision]

I will be working on getting a photo accout next week. The newest photos were taken on 11/11/2011 and are indicated with the photos. It seems some people are getting more responces with C&C than I am. I guess it just depends on who you are. I specialize in Fire Dept. photography though I am trying to expand to other areas and can hardly get any responces that are positive here (Comments on the pics themselves) compared to remarks on how to post them or where to post them. I was actually thinking about posting my first self potrait for C&C though I may not now due to the low photo comments and so much bashing for not having them on a photo site. If you would like to see it, let me know.

Do you understand why you aren't getting more cc responses? You aren't posting the pictures so some people can't see them an people don't want to sift through a bunch of photos. It takes 4 minutes to set up a photo account. I don't get why it's so hard for you to do it. You've posted enough times to know that you will get more feedback by posting them in the thread.

 

[lepierce3]

In the time it's taken you to write out all those posts complaining, you could have made a photobucket account already. I dont understand why you feel the need to wait till next week. Many people, like myself, view this site on their phones, which makes it very hard to find your gallery and go through all your images until we've found the new ones. Also, Im honestly not trying to be mean, but if you dont listen to what everyone is telling you now, what makes us think it wont be in one ear and out the other with CC as well?

 

[thereyougo!14 2]

I will be working on getting a photo accout next week. The newest photos were taken on 11/11/2011 and are indicated with the photos. It seems some people are getting more responces with C&C than I am. I guess it just depends on who you are. I specialize in Fire Dept. photography though I am trying to expand to other areas and can hardly get any responces that are positive here (Comments on the pics themselves) compared to remarks on how to post them or where to post them. I was actually thinking about posting my first self potrait for C&C though I may not now due to the low photo comments and so much bashing for not having them on a photo site. If you would like to see it, let me know.

[Sigh] I give up. Sulking really isn't gonna get you anywhere. Please have some consideration for others if you expect them to help you by looking at your work. You have to meet people halfway if you want a positive response. Have a think about this: if I use my iphone to look for your images, it will cost me more money to go searching for your images, than it will for them to appear here on this thread. I doubt I am alone in this as many network providers charge per mb for mobile internet use (I am out of my home country at the moment so it costs even more).

I can tell you that the people replying to you here are some of the most knowledgeable and helpful people on this site. Show them some respect. [Lecture over]

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

This is freaking hilarious!



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[BlackSheep]

This is freaking hilarious!



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Hahahaha!!!!!

 

[shootermcgavin]

It makes no sense that you are working on getting a photo account, with all the replies you spent more than enough time to create a photo account. We're talking about a 2-4 minute process that you make sound like you're creating a car that runs on air...

 

[mrpink]

Cannot decide whether to take the time to actually go look at these now famous photos... or to just place the OP on my ignore list. It will more than likely be the latter.






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[KmH]

I looked at and commented on the photos on 11/19/2011 at 4:57 PM, MST, but I wrote my comments in Word and haven't had time yet to proofread, format, copy, and paste the comments here in the thread.

I might get to it in the next week of so.