The Photography Thread

[pranav0091]

The intention for leaving exif is because, I really want to get some constructive criticism of the photographs I share.

Many (probably most) of the photographs I share thinking that they are good (in my view, when I see it first). But later after getting some comments I realize that the photographs are not as good as before or really bad.

After my initial few months into photograph, I came across a post suggesting few things. "what to do to get some "real" comments and criticism"? Leaving exif on the post was one among the few. To my convenience, lately I am stamping them. If the borders really making the photograph look bad, I will sure work on it or remove it. Now I am working on it. I will give it a try one last time. Please, don't give up on me. Comment on that whether the border like thing is ok or not (it's not actually a border). Before going bed, I will post two photographs with that new one.

It may be a good habit to focus on the exif and offer it to critique, but never lose sight of the greatest truth in photography - its the image that matters. Its only when someone notices something lacking in an image that they will realistically go dig into the exif and see what they could have done better. Of course there are people who study from others, but in that case the source neednt advertise the settings

 

[abhidev]

*farm4.staticflickr.com/3818/13662839374_4968dee8a1_o.jpg

 

[marvelousprashant]

[MENTION=125321]nac[/MENTION]
In 1st image it would be better if there was a person walking by (long exposure motion blur) or sitting (emotion) or smoking or a woman sewing sweater etc... The image looks incomplete although the scene has a lot of potential

 

[abhidev]

*farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/13662520673_24a5889594_o.jpg

 

[sujoyp]

[MENTION=125321]nac[/MENTION] 1st one is better...good composition..no need to put exif,,those who need it will check details inside the file
[MENTION=84261]abhidev[/MENTION] nice perspective

 

[kaz]

[MENTION=125321]nac[/MENTION] nice pics n that border too

[MENTION=84261]abhidev[/MENTION] is that glass on the beach? I'm on fone so not visible clearly

 

[chitvan]

[MENTION=128954]sujoy[/MENTION]
Nice macros.... Loved the first one more.
[MENTION=84261]abhidev[/MENTION]
Nice angle

 

[chitvan]

Give it an awesome tagline. This one deserves a good quote or tagline.

Thanks all.
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This photo captured at pottery place, at sarkhej,I love to visit it,
I frequently visit it so these children know me well, they are always curious to see their photo I captured, even I show some old pics of them in mobile (Facebook) captured year back, I sharpen much here but actually I wanted to sharpen eyes only, I love to capture children from top+wide angle as it looks different and no need to care about background,
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This is special place for me, this place gave me some awesome pics and even I got my best pic here.

 

[Gen.Libeb]

[MENTION=39722]sujoyp[/MENTION] - Super macro !!! What is it in the first one .. A mosquito ?

The intention for leaving exif is because, I really want to get some constructive criticism of the photographs I share.

Sometimes leaving exif may work against you while getting critique. I'd rather have my photos judged based on how good they look and not by settings.

 

[Hrishi]

Do you guys go for photo-walks ????
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I was planning to go to Rishikesh this weekend with my office friends but plan got canceled. Now i am wondering whether going alone there for the sake of photography will make sense or not.

Sometimes it seems photographers life can get lonely at times.

 

[nac]

#2 of 3

*i.imgur.com/iWqnsB0.jpg

I don't know what was I think to use f/7.1 after all I am using a small sensor camera. I chose -2 EV to get decent shutter speed to shoot handheld. I should have shot wide open. Thinking that I can push exposure during PP, but the lead to below average IQ. And I was expecting to see sun, but it was hiding behind the clouds all evening (there would be nice colours under the sky). I really liked this photograph, though not happy with the quality of the image.

 

[sujoyp]

thanks chitvan

Gen its not a mosquito...donno what it is but we have plenty of them in garden and find them easily
[MENTION=17225]Rishi[/MENTION] If you are reffering street photography as photowalk then no I have never went...but I have went for birding with a bunch of photographers...and its fun, you always learn new things from others.
Dont go alone..its not a good idea...security point of view .
[MENTION=125321]nac[/MENTION] this one is awesome ...I dont find anything bad here

 

[abhidev]

thanks guys....
[MENTION=121890]kaz[/MENTION] those are the pebbles on the beach...sadly now I don't have the original with me as my hdd crashed ...probably I can get it from my friends

 

[nac]

#3 of 3

This is my favourite among the three. Thanks to nice colours. It was bright daylight, I couldn't see the LCD clearly. Sun was straight above my head. It seemed good using -1 EV. But when looked @ computer screen, it seems underexposed. All the photographs are RAW, so I had little more room to tweak in PP. When I loaded RAW, I was little shocked to see that the picture was dull, dim than jpeg. Even I thought of better editing jpeg as the RAW seemed worse than jpeg. But I went on with RAW, trying to match jpeg's brightness, colour and all. I should say I am happy with the editing. But with jpeg, I didn't have to tweak this much, file size would be minimum of 6 times smaller and most importantly file would have written faster when shooting.

I tried both jpeg and RAW for this picture. I will post the comparison in PP thread.

*i.imgur.com/NJvgZIT.jpg

 

[sujoyp]

Nac this one looks nice...but there are bloches of white all over near the cloud ...why is that...and why dont you share picture through flickr...I could have seen a bigger image with exif there

 

[nac]

^ I saw that. Blotches are there in the original too, and it increased slightly in PP and its more obvious coz of the quality of the jpeg I chose. I choose 65 quality, that's the usual I keep for every photograph. I find it easy with small size photographs. All the photographs since I bought camera, I am sharing down sampled version (including flickr). I will upload the original somewhere, if you want.

 

[sujoyp]

no no what I am saying is if you want to maintain 2 different flickr profile then you can do that but at least upload the pics from there soo we can see the pic in big size and exif details too...I am maintaining 4 flickr profiles right now

 

[nac]

I am maintaining 4 flickr profiles right now

Just after your post I checked it. I didn't know imgur stripping the exif info. I was using imageshack before, after they made it paid only option, I moved to imgur. I think now I have to look for some other site. I tried flickr before, but copy/pasting the link is not as simple as others.

 

[pranav0091]

Just after your post I checked it. I didn't know imgur stripping the exif info. I was using imageshack before, after they made it paid only option, I moved to imgur. I think now I have to look for some other site. I tried flickr before, but copy/pasting the link is not as simple as others.

Its simpler. Click on the share button (the one looking like a dock-out icon) and then take the third tab inside the small popup (the tab looking like a thumb-pin) - that gives you the entire code, including the IMG tags, dont have to type even that

 

[sujoyp]

yaah now flickr link is a small one..not like before...

and 4 profiles for different purposes one for good shots one for portraits one for crap shots and all gear buy shots and last one for zoomin.com soo they pick my pics from there