New to the site and want opinions

[Derrel]

1: it's a horizontal and it's a poor composition. The woman is cropped off badly, and the big,huge, useless empty space on the left appears to have been left for nothing other than space to put in your large,flowery logo. The big, burned-out highlight on her shoulder shows that your technical fundamentals are weak.

2: The subject is unrecognizable, and the shallow depth of field makes absolutely no sense. This is the weakest of the four shots, and it's extremely weak. The bullet-shaped thing is the only part of the scene in good focus, and for what reason?

3: The cracked board is in focus. The child is out of focus. You are accidentally using an old landscape painting technique of placing your logo, in dark, on top of a very bright background location, thus magnifying the emphasis of BOTH areas, which makes for a very attention-getting logotype, and totally kills this shot. The dark-overlayed-atop-light logo placement and the out of focus child combine to make the equivalent of a photographic double-tap.

4: the OOF grass in front of her eyes is somewhat distracting, yes. It makes me want to NOT look. But notice here how the unified logo, brown, overlayed on tan, makes the logo much less gaudy and garish? How it makes the logo sort of sublimate, rather than vibrate? The best part of this shot is that it shows how one can make a logo that does not call undue attention to itself, as is the case in photos 1 and 3.

 

[Genka81]

Yeah I know what you mean exactly, I mean I have a couple shot I showed my family and they said the same thing. I mean they like it ofcourse they're my family it's what they do but they said it wasn't the best. I enjoy a story behind a photo and trying to think deeper into that story to see what a photograph is really telling you. Hope that makes sense

Makes lots of sense, because that's how I think, too. I tend to over think a photo sometimes. I try to make the best out of everything. =P Nice to know I'm not alone! =)

Yeah I know, I was hoem alone and the lights were all off I was doing some light paintings and my brother came home to me running around the house with a flashlight. Ofcourse he aske dme what I was doing and I repleied:" i'm running around with a flashlight what does it look like i'm doing" He called me stupid, after I showed him the result he respected me. If you want to see it it's on my flickr. Kind of a cool concept.

OMG That is so interesting! I love the picture. The shutter must have been open for a while for you to be able to do all that. Pretty amazing! =) God job!

 

[mrpink]

When I saw number 4 I thought... just missed it. I love the idea, but if the OOF blade was completely covering her eyes instead of crossing though it the look and feel of the photo would be very different.

The others are nice, the little girl is out of focus which is a bit distracting.


Nice work, keep it up and keep posting.








p!nK

 

[Genka81]

When I saw number 4 I thought... just missed it. I love the idea, but if the OOF blade was completely covering her eyes instead of crossing though it the look and feel of the photo would be very different.

The others are nice, the little girl is out of focus which is a bit distracting.


Nice work, keep it up and keep posting.

p!nK

Thanks! I'll definitely keep shooting! =)

 

[Bram]

Makes lots of sense, because that's how I think, too. I tend to over think a photo sometimes. I try to make the best out of everything. =P Nice to know I'm not alone! =)

Yeah I know, I was hoem alone and the lights were all off I was doing some light paintings and my brother came home to me running around the house with a flashlight. Ofcourse he aske dme what I was doing and I repleied:" i'm running around with a flashlight what does it look like i'm doing" He called me stupid, after I showed him the result he respected me. If you want to see it it's on my flickr. Kind of a cool concept.

OMG That is so interesting! I love the picture. The shutter must have been open for a while for you to be able to do all that. Pretty amazing! =) God job!

Thanks alot for the kind words. Yeah one of the shots was 898 seconds and another around 600. So yeah took abotu 10-15 minutes to do.

 

[sobolik]

Hey Everyone,

I'm kind of new to the DSLR world. I had a professional film camera back in the days, but it has been a while since I used any professional cameras. I got my camera about a month ago, and am just starting to learn about it. I'd love some tips, tricks, and opinions on my work.

Here's some of my photos:

In this age of the digital dark room it is easy to get women to love you, or TO HATE YOU! Actually they won't hate you they will just turn away in the usual disgust at how they again look less than they would like.

These photos would not have made it past my editing stage as they are now. Again because I like to do what I can in hopes that the women will say "did I really look that good" Rather than saying "oh I don't look good - again"

I have a general policy of never sharpening a woman's skin.

In photo one - in keeping with my woman's skin focus - I would gently band aid all the skin irregularities and flaws. I would then select the eyes and sharpen them to get maximum clarity and sparkle.

The last photo is as bit more challenging. The out of focus element in front of the eyes may force me to not do the eye sharpening routine. I would probably do the lips for maximum sparkle instead. I would get rid of the bump on the forehead and other gentle skin defect smoothing.

Otherwise very nice photos.

 

[Genka81]

In this age of the digital dark room it is easy to get women to love you, or TO HATE YOU! Actually they won't hate you they will just turn away in the usual disgust at how they again look less than they would like.

These photos would not have made it past my editing stage as they are now. Again because I like to do what I can in hopes that the women will say "did I really look that good" Rather than saying "oh I don't look good - again"

I have a general policy of never sharpening a woman's skin.

In photo one - in keeping with my woman's skin focus - I would gently band aid all the skin irregularities and flaws. I would then select the eyes and sharpen them to get maximum clarity and sparkle.

The last photo is as bit more challenging. The out of focus element in front of the eyes may force me to not do the eye sharpening routine. I would probably do the lips for maximum sparkle instead. I would get rid of the bump on the forehead and other gentle skin defect smoothing.

Otherwise very nice photos.

Sounds like you have a difficult job, lol. I understand what you are saying, and thanks for the advice. =)