The Photography Thread

axelzdly1

mR.coNfusEd
Looks stunning [MENTION=150899]ishan99[/MENTION].! try decreasing the greens in the background, they look distracting.
 

Anorion

Sith Lord
Staff member
Admin
sorry for last minute update, but today is a super-moon, so the moon is pretty close to earth
next is sept 2015
 

Gen.Libeb

Padawan
Seriously??? I hate it. I tprovides odd smudges at few points. Trust me, i tried it on that dragon fly pic. It came out nice, but then i noticed, it had no wings :D

It worked pretty good on people. you can't really defocus background shooting people any compact camera (at least those costing < 25000) .
I think it might be doing some kind of processing to get that effect, so sometimes it ends up looking fake.
 

ishan99

Broken In
It worked pretty good on people. you can't really defocus background shooting people any compact camera (at least those costing < 25000) .
I think it might be doing some kind of processing to get that effect, so sometimes it ends up looking fake.

I really agree. you just cant get shallow dof with a compact camera while shooting mostly portraiture. But i shot some portraits using this mode, and result was good, appreciated a lot, but the awkward smudges were the point of criticism.
So i try to use plain white backgrounds while shooting.

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Really stunning shot, ishan99. :)

Thanks man :)

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*i.imgur.com/UGFNzv5.jpg
Defocus mode. Notice the smudges

*i.imgur.com/NSyMSor.jpg
Same

*i.imgur.com/lJGAMbn.jpg
Same

*i.imgur.com/0ikDJnC.jpg
White background.
 

CyberKID

In search for Tech Gyan!
Hey guys, beware!
I hope you all know about Content Plagiarism (copying/usage of your content without your permission). I have a blog, where I have been using most of my captures for about 1.5 years now. Just a few days back, I found out that some of my images are being used in various websites, without my knowledge, let alone, seeking my permission. While, we have been sharing our captures here on this thread, and at a lot of other places, I believe we never care to check out our images for wrongful application.
I do hope that each one of you would check out for your images being used elsewhere on the internet without your permission. While we have a lot of tools to check for text contents, including Google Search, Copyscape, etc, to name a few, good plagiarism checkers for images are hard to find, in terms usability. If you're planning to search for your content's illegal usage, you can use images.google.com, Reverse Image Search by Image Raider - Track Photo Usage. While Google images has a drag-and-drop UI where you can drag and drop the images and add some text to help it find better, imageraider works with image url's. Hoping that you guys will get some help with these tools.
 

sujoyp

Grand Master
Thanks cyberkid ...but for now my pics are free to use anywhere :) I would be glad to see my pics on any website..Just that it will make me sad if somebody says that he have taken that pic
[MENTION=6638]Ishan[/MENTION] 1st and last is good...2nd and third are not foccused properly
 

CyberKID

In search for Tech Gyan!
Thanks cyberkid ...but for now my pics are free to use anywhere :) I would be glad to see my pics on any website..Just that it will make me sad if somebody says that he have taken that pic
@Ishan 1st and last is good...2nd and third are not foccused properly
Sujoy, the thing is, as a blogger, one has to follow the numerous policies, when it comes to using others' material, so, why not apply it to our content as well? The thing that bothers me here, is the commercial usage of the photographs, that too, without permission. At two instances I've seen my photographs being used commercially, without even asking for permission (in their commercial websites). Beyond that, they are using the photos on B2B sites like indiamart, tradeindia and alibaba as well. :|
See this for instance:
*i.imgur.com/wCGpsNC.png
Using my picture, edited it suitably to add that bottle, and with a watermark of their own. What does this suggest?
 
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izzikio_rage

Technomancer
Cyberkid: that's actually pretty true, images being stolen is pretty easy and i'm pretty sure a lot of people do it too. One safeguard is that we share images through flickr/500px and turn off image downloading there. Even then it makes sense that we never upload our full resolution images without a watermark unless you are sure that you would want to give the image away (like many of us do when we share the raw for post processing, or the tiff file)

Other than that there are always ways to steal images and you can't police most of them, so I guess that is a risk that we take. I guess a stolen image is worth the ego boost that someone found our image worth using in all the images on the net :D

A couple of pics from my side too

*farm6.staticflickr.com/5557/14700318707_1604e87c54_c.jpgLife's a race by Amlan Mathur, on Flickr

*farm6.staticflickr.com/5592/14737729370_29f310603d_c.jpgFinding joy in the simplest of things by Amlan Mathur, on Flickr
 

sujoyp

Grand Master
Nice amlan...doggy is cute
[MENTION=96386]CyberKID[/MENTION] ...we can not do anything bro...you want to protect your pic...put a huge watermark across and then no body wants to see it nor use it ...even if you post a 800x600 pic on flickr too you are putting it online to share...people can download it freely ...
If you want to earn money out of a picture then its better to upload a 500x300 res picture online and if someone wants to use it they will pay you for full res.
 
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