The Photography Thread

rhitwick

Democracy is a myth
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(Moon, as best as I could)

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toofan

Technomancer
@Ritwik for post no:1441

1st: looks ordinary and taken in hard light.
2nd: Good shot and even better for me as I can't do that even.
3rd: Excellent shot. Solid composition.
(About PP: Now here the P.P comes into play. you could have increased the brown color in the road and blue in sky and it would have looked more beautiful.)
4th: Good shot.if the sky was blue in this image then you should have focused in sky so that the camera does metering acc to sky and it looks blue and then changed the composition.
5th: subject is good but is in center.
6th: the white flowers are washed out.
I went really close to them. Just sit there for some time and aiming a flower and let them come to that flower to take shots. expose for the white flower.
7th: not visible in my pc.
8th yellow bird: Beautiful bird but the composition is not right. Try to follow the rule of third where ever possible.
9th: beautifully taken.
10:again rule of third.
11th: excellent work and dedication. but the rule of third not followed.
12: same as above. good shot.
14: Excellent, superb shot. nicely composed. the horizon is on the upper third line which is perfect and adds more to the subject. Best shot for me.
15: ordinary shot.
16th: composition is good but something missing. lacks sharpness. sky is dull.


for Post no: 1442

1st: not good composition. doesn't attracts me.
2nd: here you have missed the great opportunity to take a great shot. the tree should be in left third or right third. very very beautiful field and place to take some special photos.
Stuge would love this place.
3rd Moon: Use P.P. our type camera and only take good shots then.

ritwik: don't take it hard. its only my opinion. But for your good. Try using gird lines in your camera helps to compose better.
learn the art of presenting your work to others. if any shot not composed well use cropping, adding etc etc. Just think what was in your mind/how the scene was looking, at the time of shooting and then if that doesn't shows up in image then add that by P.P. Enhance the interesting parts of your image.
I am still learning. I will suggest you watch stuge regularly.

Stuge: nice/unique subject and nicely taken.
 

quan chi

mortal kombat
stuge you really have eyes for art/photography.

like toofan suggested you earlier.i would also suggest you to take part in some photography competition. or maybe you did..:-?

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i know these are not that good but few from my side.:D
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Cool G5

Conversation Architect
Playing with Danger for Livelihood

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@quan chi - I liked the last one. First is shaken while the second is nothing special.

@stuge - Very Good Shot.
 

rhitwick

Democracy is a myth
@Ritwik for post no:1441

1st: looks ordinary and taken in hard light.
2nd: Good shot and even better for me as I can't do that even.
3rd: Excellent shot. Solid composition.
(About PP: Now here the P.P comes into play. you could have increased the brown color in the road and blue in sky and it would have looked more beautiful.)
4th: Good shot.if the sky was blue in this image then you should have focused in sky so that the camera does metering acc to sky and it looks blue and then changed the composition.
5th: subject is good but is in center.
6th: the white flowers are washed out.
I went really close to them. Just sit there for some time and aiming a flower and let them come to that flower to take shots. expose for the white flower.
7th: not visible in my pc.
8th yellow bird: Beautiful bird but the composition is not right. Try to follow the rule of third where ever possible.
9th: beautifully taken.
10:again rule of third.
11th: excellent work and dedication. but the rule of third not followed.
12: same as above. good shot.
14: Excellent, superb shot. nicely composed. the horizon is on the upper third line which is perfect and adds more to the subject. Best shot for me.
15: ordinary shot.
16th: composition is good but something missing. lacks sharpness. sky is dull.


for Post no: 1442

1st: not good composition. doesn't attracts me.
2nd: here you have missed the great opportunity to take a great shot. the tree should be in left third or right third. very very beautiful field and place to take some special photos.
Stuge would love this place.
3rd Moon: Use P.P. our type camera and only take good shots then.

ritwik: don't take it hard. its only my opinion. But for your good. Try using gird lines in your camera helps to compose better.
learn the art of presenting your work to others. if any shot not composed well use cropping, adding etc etc. Just think what was in your mind/how the scene was looking, at the time of shooting and then if that doesn't shows up in image then add that by P.P. Enhance the interesting parts of your image.
I am still learning. I will suggest you watch stuge regularly.

Stuge: nice/unique subject and nicely taken.
Many many thanx for ur intense comments...I really appreciate the amount of time u devoted for such n00b photo enthusiastic like me...

I confess, I really fail to make people beautiful, I just get puzzled on what amount of frame they should cover or from which angle I should take a photo. I just can't make them beautiful.
Rather I love nature for it being always perfect and beautiful and gorgeous. So, I always prefer to click most of scenic beauties (because of this, I always get thrashed near my frnds, for clicking "ful-patthar" :-D )

1> I'm clueless on sunlight photography. Most of my photos seem to be washed out by light. If I lower the exposure, it seems to me getting dark. Any tips here?
2>Cropping...hmmm, good point, next time my photos will be well cropped (hope I don't trim things that should be there)
3>Angle...yaar, yehi to diff. hai expert aur n00bs mein. Give me some time I'll sure get some idea about proper angle for a subject.
4>P.P; I'm too lazy to P.P. just touch up sometimes in Picasa. Then again I lack the imagination of why the photo is incomplete that I should change something. In-fact I only touch-up if I find colors are very dull... :p

Thanx again Toofan for ur comments, I'll try to follow them as much possible next time...
 

Stuge

Youngling
1> I'm clueless on sunlight photography. Most of my photos seem to be washed out by light. If I lower the exposure, it seems to me getting dark. Any tips here?
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click two picture ,one with good sky and other with better exposed forground and blend them in cs4 or do hdr with auto bracketineg (i guess with point and shoot thats tough thing to change EV).Regarding blending its a tough call and I'm still not succssful in doing it properly .thats why I use filters or shot three or five pictures with different ev and make hdr :)

this is the reason photographers hate shooting monuments during afternoon :).I wil try to post one example .
 

Stuge

Youngling
Elephant on the Road :D

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Processing isn't the neatest of all

..secondly .I hate how the part of the trunk was deleted in this picture :(
 

Stuge

Youngling

Raj Ghat


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HDR ( with forground exposed propely ) three exposures +2 .0.-2)

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Stuge

Youngling
Lonely Tracks

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Well ,there is nothing special about this picture .No compo or nothing .just a random picture :)
 

Stuge

Youngling
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Note :This is from a single picture, tone mapped(HDR)in Photomatix

@quan chi :when are you getting camera ??
 

toofan

Technomancer
Stuge: among all I loved the elephant one.
The lonely track is taken in hard light causing the shadow to be harsh. so for me not creating that much effect.
Rajghat is a nice example of HDR.
Monuments are always classic from you.

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My office Friend.

I tried to pose him in a different way. C & C welcome.

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A civil Engineer In our Office. C & C welcome.

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Cool : Excellent Image. The
Ritwik: Due to limitations of our cameras I will suggest you to expose for brighter areas and then enhance the darker areas in software. Or if your camera supports exposure bracketing then practice it.
 

Cool G5

Conversation Architect
@stuge - Nice shot.

@toofan - I liked the first one over second. The reason? In first one can't mkae out the PP which is done so carefully & cleanly whereas in the second there is a black smudge around the subject's head. Apart from the smudge the image is really good.

Sometimes I wonder if I had such good PP skills like you guys. I do nothing except some basic manipulations.

Anyways here is an image which I took for the review of my new Dell S2409W LCD Monitor. :)

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Stuge

Youngling
I wish time could roll back--->(read note too )

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non tilted

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black and white version

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Exposure time :663 sec (single exposure )
picture was taken in the morning time (just before sunrise ).I have changed the temperature setting bit to reflect that.

aslo picture is slightly tilted ,but If tilt is corrected north star is chopped off from the pic .I have posted the cropped one too ,in the comment +black white :)

@toofan :hmm pp on second image looks bad :(wel,too much blur .

@cool:congrats
 

Anorion

Sith Lord
Staff member
Admin
^woah. :explicit: awesome. really inspiring. im gonna try that trick.
Which camera did you use by the way? dSLRs don't allow such long exposures.
 

toofan

Technomancer
Cool: Congrats for that Huge screen. Nice and neat shot too. Thanks for the feedback. Yes the second one is heavily blurred.

Stuge: wonderful! and thanks for the feedback. I will keep that in mind next time.
 

Cool G5

Conversation Architect
@stuge - Nice but I think I have seen a same shot somewhere else so its not making me jump with WOW!

Thanks toofan & stuge. The Dell S2409W is an awesome monitor.
 

Cool G5

Conversation Architect
It costs Rs.13,800 shipped from Dell. I purchased it for Rs.14,400 as I need it immediately & only after personal inspection. It has excellent contrast & accurate colour reproduction. A treat for a photographer.
 
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