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Discussion in 'Tilted Art, Photography, Music & Literature' started by Speed_Gibson, Oct 6, 2011.

  1. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    Howdy folks,
    I took this a few days ago at the Albion Community building/old high school and liked how the stripes on my daughter's dress almost match with the bricks. I applied a partial desaturation/selective colorisation to the bricks to tone down the red.

    And yes I am creating my own thread here for my pictures. It may get less action than a monk on Saturday night, but I was not sure where to post this one and no doubt I will decide to add more pictures here at some point.
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  2. MeltedMetalGlob

    MeltedMetalGlob Resident Loser Donor

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    I like the picture, but that line is also deserving of a like. :D
     
  3. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    Decided to throw another in here. This would be my first panoramic shot stitched together with pictures taken 19 Sep 2002 at Siler Falls park which is near Silverton Oregon. I scaled down a picture 4583x1454 pixels in size that has been floating around on my HDs for the past nine years.
    This file weighs in at 300k but I felt the size justified it.
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  4. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    Taken this afternoon . I call this set "Sleeping Angels" - aren't they all when they are sleeping?
    Pic 1 - right before the cat walked all over them and woke them up. I took pictures of that event but decided not to post any of them.
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    Pic 2 - My four year old
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  5. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    This was taken with my Powershot on monochrome mode. Slight editing in post processing (as in handy excuse I chose to play with Photoshop).
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  6. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    Took this today while out for a walk in town, this is using the macro mode on the Powershot:
    (note to self - make that watermark for 2012 and use it as an excuse to FINALLY make that watermark tutorial suitable for posting here and on the web in general)
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  7. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    Decided this fit in here better rather the "camera upgrade" thread. This would be my 50mm F/1.4 lens and the nearest beautiful model that I had available. Wouldn't you know it, she looks like someone clone stamped my face and framed it in cute blond hair. Not really a shock as there is blonde hair to some degree on both sides, mine just has not been blonde since I was two or so when it turned much darker.
    Of course now it is trying to get back to blonde but seems to have missed and gone for the "lighter" grey/white look :D
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  8. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    More of my spa.....er........"useful contributions"....yeah that is the term :D (AKA showing off more cuteness)[​IMG]
     
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  9. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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  10. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    Not sure where else to put this one so choosing this thread.
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  11. That is sooooooo perfect. I'm smiling :)
     
  12. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    Took this today, I look cute as a short blonde. ;)
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  13. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    From a few years back -
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  14. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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  15. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    Took the camera to the local cemetery in Pullman today. This family caught my attention, the headstones were telling a story I just had to put together.
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    [link to slightly larger picture on flikr]
     
  16. MSD

    MSD Very Tilted

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    I feel like this would be a much stronger picture if you corrected the barrel distortion and perspective so all your verticals were perfectly vertical. I would also pull exposure half to a full stop since the highlights are blown and shadows look unnaturally bright.
     
  17. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    Practiced a wee bit of thread necromancy as it looked like these fit best here.
    I removed the extraneous Flickr link underneath but each picture does still link back to that site for whatever that is worth. This is what happens when I use a decent camera and lens, instead of fighting the limitations of a $100 point and shoot.
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    --- merged: Apr 4, 2013 at 9:57 PM ---
    And publicly commenting on this one as I had mostly forgotten about it and the conversation was through PMs in any event. I did fix this one somewhat back then and it did look significantly better, might see about posting "take 2" on that.
     
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  18. retrogunslinger

    retrogunslinger Vertical

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    Honestly, the only one I think is a legitimately good photograph is the self-portrait. There are two problems, with the second pertaining more to DSLR since the point and shoot makes such things a pain in the ass:

    1. The composition. This is the lesser problem, admittedly, but it looks to creep up a lot. The most notable here is the first picture of your daughter against the brick wall. If you had lowered the camera to flatten the wall and make the lines more symmetrical, it would actually be a pretty good shot.

    2. The lighting. This is the big tell-tale sign. You don't need lighting equipment to produce well-lit images (a few flash units certainly don't hurt), but you do need some understanding of the lighting. The self portrait is great because the lighting hitting his face is soft but still accentuates it and helps it pop from the background. With the girls, there's no pop.

    Just to break the text barrier, this is by no means negative commentary. You obviously have an interest in photography, and your first shots with a legit camera aren't bad. I think if you keep the lighting in mind and work on composition (lots of great books, if you think you want some analytical reading), you'll have some good work. Plus, you have adorable subjects to test your skill with.

    For some extra, cheap help with your images, I'd suggest buying a collapsible reflector and some cheap flash units (~$60 a piece) and some equally cheap softboxes (Cowboy Studio has some great stuff for the price). Even just a little bounce flash would infinitely help images like the middle one above.

    For landscapes, pay attention to keeping the lighting less harsh, perhaps by shooting around magic hour or just late in the day. You could also try learning HDR, which is extremely easy to learn despite all of the awful examples on the Internet.

    I'm very curious to see what else you come up with now that you're using a DSLR. 50mm f/1.4 was a great choice of lens. I learned on a 50mm f/1.8. What ISO are you shooting? Your images appear a bit noisy, so you may need to lower it to the 100 - 400 range.

    Oh, and try not to over edit. There's a bit of that, both here and on your Flickr.
     
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  19. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

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    I like constructive feedback. :) Especially when it gets down to ways to improve beyond just "you suck" (or whatever variation thereof) with no details as to why someone thinks you do.
    Some particulars on these:
    >The girls were literally "quick snapshots" during a meal with less than ideal light. The lens made them look decent. I shall keep that in mind with the larger lights for future attempts. I have been a customer from Cowboy Studios in the past and in the future plan on spending more money there than i care to think when I have both the means to buy and the space to store something bigger than the tabletop kit.
    > The self portrait was me just holding the camera out shooting blind so to speak around the same time. Out of five or six shots that was one of two finalists, and the rest were workable snapshots at best that were not much higher quality than the endless poor point and shoot snapshots that litter sites like facebook.
    > Yes, some of my uploads in the past have been edited a wee bit too much. That shot from University of Idaho posted above did look better closer to the "as taken" state compared to the punched up brightness and whatever else I did to it then.
    The American flag picture is heavily but selectively enhanced as far in the brightness category by altering the curves in PS, but it looks much better in my opinion as the RAW source was dark and lackluster with the light captured on the setting used. None of these three were touched at all aside from the conversion from RAW, resizing, and giving the border/dropshadow/wtrmrk.


    I do have several decent pictures worth sharing from the past 12 years, I am just picky what I post online. I am making a sincere effort to avoid the common "mass photo dump" I have seen more than once online with what often looks like snapshots with frequently poor composition and lighting.

    One thing the ongoing experience has taught me is that good bokah is soooo much easier with a good lens and to a lesser degree camera. My Canon G2 had a happy accident if the bokah popped just right but it did happen a few times over the years despite numerous attempts. My fairly recent point and shoot camera does not even speak that language, and the Rebel XS I had before with the dogshit 18-55mm lens generally failed as well but I still have a few "wow" shots with that as well. The hardware side of any failure from that era lies almost entirely on the horrific lens more than the camera body.

    Sorry about getting chatty, I read this right after waking up from my nap and this subject particularly interests me.
     
  20. Not much to say here, as I don't know much about the technicalities of photography, except that you seem to have the knack. Some good work! Especially like the first two.