Your most valuble and honest C&C please

willma88 · Jul 21, 2009

Please CC these images honestly. I am by no means perfect, so please tell me whats wrong and I will improve for next time. Cheers!

1

Location: Bondi Beach Sydney Skate Park
Gear: D90
f/5.6
1/400
ISO: 200
Focal D: 55mm
Shot in Manual Mode
No flash was fired

2

Taken inside the Queen Victoria Building Sydney Australia
Gear: D90
f/8
1/4
ISO: 200
Focal D: 55mm
Shot in Manual
No flash was fired

3

Sydney Opera House from International Terminal
Gear: D90
f/5.6
1/4
ISO: 1000
Focal D: 55mm
Shot in Manual Mode
No flash was fired

4

International Terminal Sydney Harbour

Gear: D90
f/5.6
1/4
ISO: 1000
Focal D: 35mm
Shot in Manual Mode
No flash was fired

Jeffro · Jul 21, 2009

Hey read this to get better C&C

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...e-your-posts-get-critiques-your-work-c-c.html

Please Put more info on what camera you are using. What Settings, and what look you were going for in each pictures....

alot more people will chime in!

willma88 · Jul 21, 2009

Jeffro said:
Hey read this to get better C&C

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...e-your-posts-get-critiques-your-work-c-c.html

Please Put more info on what camera you are using. What Settings, and what look you were going for in each pictures....

alot more people will chime in!

Ok I will edit it ! Cheers

Jeffro · Jul 22, 2009

You will get a much better response from the members!

Jeffro · Jul 22, 2009

1, looks a little out of focus but you may have been going for the motion look? not sure. His face is sooo red and I am not sure what is up with that?

2. Great shot but in my opinion wish there was either more people or less. The blur makes it look busy but not busy enough to convey that. I hope you know what I am trying to say! Still like the shot

3. I have seen 100 of the same exact picture!

4. I like this shot too but I sat there trying to figure out what the subject is and I am still not sure.... BUT that might just be me!

willma88 · Jul 22, 2009

Jeffro said:
1, looks a little out of focus but you may have been going for the motion look? not sure. His face is sooo red and I am not sure what is up with that?

2. Great shot but in my opinion wish there was either more people or less. The blur makes it look busy but not busy enough to convey that. I hope you know what I am trying to say! Still like the shot

3. I have seen 100 of the same exact picture!

4. I like this shot too but I sat there trying to figure out what the subject is and I am still not sure.... BUT that might just be me!

Thankyou very much for your honest feedback!
1- The face came out underexposed, and thus i had to edit it in lightroom. However, my moniter broke down a couple of weeks back and currently im using a really old moniter without proper calibration. Therefore the colours might be distorted, i will fix it when i get the screen back.

2. Thankyou, i completely agree.

3. Completely agree again, im running outta places to take photos in sydney. Any suggestions anyone out there?

4. Subject is a little hidden but the mood is good i think.

Jeffro · Jul 22, 2009

About number 3.. This is something me and My friend were talking about 2 days ago.

If you think you are running out of things to shoot then stop for a second and think of new ways to take pictures of the same old thing. Zoom in, zoom out, tilt the camera, of set the subject, take 50 shots of the same thing but make every picture different. Crop it differently, try Black and white, try everything and screw up a bunch of shots. It is digital and you can delete them! and it does not cost a cent!

I am trying to think if I have an example!

willma88 · Jul 22, 2009

Yeah defs wil try that next time i get out there. I think the thing with sydney is that there are only so many places to take pictures. I know thats a very opinionated response, and i will probs get people from sydney telling me off for it but that really how i feel.

At least just for landscape and things. Thats why i am wanting to make the shift into photojournalism or model etc.. a lot to learn!

Jeffro · Jul 22, 2009

everyone has a lot to learn! LOL You just need to show the old stuff in a new way! The only way I have found to do this is to take thousands of pictures! And really study them later to find your likes and dislikes.!

One of our other plans is to try to take 10 great pictures with in a certain distance.

The first try will be within 100 feet of my house!

then maybe Within Walking Distance of home

then maybe Within my home town City Limits

With each one of these projects I will probley take 200 shots to try to get 10 great ones. IF I do that I will be VERY Happy!

willma88 · Jul 22, 2009

yeah man! thats sounds great! i will keep at it. thanks for the great tips!

UUilliam · Jul 22, 2009

You may not see much to photograph in Sydney as you have lived there long therefore everything there is pretty much an everyday item
whereas if i were to go to Sydney, as a tourist, everything is new therefore possibly more scenic to me than it would be for a resident in Sydney
just like where I live (a village) I don't see much to shoot except for the birds and flowers whereas someone new to the area could possibly see something better to shoot.

I think the best way to solve this is put yourself in the shoes of a tourist
I personally like your images, the best being #3 tbh, i sat and looked at that image for about 3 minutes just staring.
although a crisper image (smaller Aperture) would have looked better i think

if you exposed that image as 4 images, one for the water, one for the building, one for the mountains behind it and one for the sky
then painted in the relative parts, it could have looked better i think

kundalini · Jul 22, 2009

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Photochick · Jul 22, 2009

I too have seen photo number 3 a hundred times, but I still enjoyed it. Nice job.

Baaaark · Jul 23, 2009

willma88 said:
3. Completely agree again, im running outta places to take photos in sydney. Any suggestions anyone out there?

Royal Botanical Gardens

doogan · Jul 23, 2009

I quite like all your pics except #1. If there was some way of having a clear background ...? I think #2 is a dynamite image.

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