Second week with the camera... CC?

[cvbikeguy]

Did some baby pictures with my friend's baby and a shot of my friends car that i took.

This is also my first time using Photoshop

thanks for looking. hopefully soon to come are some DJ shots and MMA fights...

 

[EPPhoto]

The first two have an underexposed snapshot look to them. The civic looks like you did good work in PS.

 

[KmH]

In both the baby shots the light is coming from the top of the head and the eye sockets are dark (raccoon eyes), which gives the baby a kind of sinister lighting effect look. Fill light and/or being more aware of the angle of the light is the cure for raccoon eyes.

For the car shot poor lighting again plays a role. The human eye is naturally drawn to the brighter parts of an image. In the car shot the background is bright, not the car. The side of the car is bright, not the front. The sidfe of the car even has discrete bright spots because the sunlight is dappled. The front of the car is about the last place a human eye will look, but it should be the first place someone looks. Note how bright the drivers side windows are.

An almost required accessory for doing car photography outside is a circluar polarizing (CPL) filter. A CPL filter can be used to minimize reflections on a car.

At any rate photography is almost entirely about using light effectively, so you may want to persue getting a good grounding in the fundamentals of photographic lightiing.

Light Science and Magic, Fourth Edition: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

 

[noodles]

How did you shoot the civic ? Looks like you were in another car beside it. I would have perhaps stopped up a bit to get the whole car in focus. Front looks a bit out of focus.

 

[EPPhoto]

How did you shoot the civic ? Looks like you were in another car beside it. I would have perhaps stopped up a bit to get the whole car in focus. Front looks a bit out of focus.

That's the effect added in photoshop. Fooled you, so I guess he did well lol

 

[cvbikeguy]

The first two have an underexposed snapshot look to them. The civic looks like you did good work in PS.

Thanks. The shots were definitely under exposed . mostly due to the baby moving constantly and rapidly. I tried my best to adjust that in photoshop.

In both the baby shots the light is coming from the top of the head and the eye sockets are dark (raccoon eyes), which gives the baby a kind of sinister lighting effect look. Fill light and/or being more aware of the angle of the light is the cure for raccoon eyes.

For the car shot poor lighting again plays a role. The human eye is naturally drawn to the brighter parts of an image. In the car shot the background is bright, not the car. The side of the car is bright, not the front. The sidfe of the car even has discrete bright spots because the sunlight is dappled. The front of the car is about the last place a human eye will look, but it should be the first place someone looks. Note how bright the drivers side windows are.

An almost required accessory for doing car photography outside is a circluar polarizing (CPL) filter. A CPL filter can be used to minimize reflections on a car.

At any rate photography is almost entirely about using light effectively, so you may want to persue getting a good grounding in the fundamentals of photographic lightiing.

Light Science and Magic, Fourth Edition: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

I will definitely work on that. I have a couple UV filters that i was given along with the camera. I work on the lights thank you.

How did you shoot the civic ? Looks like you were in another car beside it. I would have perhaps stopped up a bit to get the whole car in focus. Front looks a bit out of focus.

How did you shoot the civic ? Looks like you were in another car beside it. I would have perhaps stopped up a bit to get the whole car in focus. Front looks a bit out of focus.

That's the effect added in photoshop. Fooled you, so I guess he did well lol

Yes i was in another car shooting out the window going 30mph. Only until i got home did i realized the focus was on the back of the car instead of the front. that was my first time doing rolling shots but im sure i can make them much better.

thanks everyone for the critiques.