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A short set of photos from my grandparents' place. Looking for critique.
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Being in black & white adds nothing and several are extremely over/under exposed and not even in focus
You just need to work on your fundamentals and think about your shots instead of just taking snapshots.
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>>2898942
if your grandparents see this crap, they'll probably have you committed for psychiatric help, so don't show them.
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Here's the deal, OP: These are boring. I don't mean that they just have a few flaws or whatever. I mean that they're really, really fucking boring. When you take a picture, you're trying to capture something that you want others to see. When you look at these photos, what did you see? What were you trying to capture? What did you want me, as the viewer, to get out of these shots?
There's just fucking nothing here. Not a single damn thing that's interesting or worth looking at.
These are just black and white photos of nothing, and the technical aspects of the photos sucks as well, so now they're shitty photos of nothing.
So, what do you do? You keep trying and keep learning. Next time you're out and something catches your eye, stop and think about it. As yourself what caught your eye. Ask yourself what you want the viewer to see. Ask yourself the all important "why?" question. Don't just take random pictures of shit, slap some black and white filter on it, and consider it done. That's the way you produce forgettable garbage.
These are fucking garbage. But that doesn't mean you can't learn. Like the other anon said, you need to work on fundamentals. Don't try to take some artsy, B&W pic of an out of focus piece of cardboard. Just take a regular photo of a fucking flower or your cat or something and try to get it in focus and try to get the colors right. It'll be boring, but at least it'll be a proper picture. Then, once you've figured out how to take a picture, you can move on to more interesting subjects and techniques.
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>>2899530
>When you look at these photos, what did you see? What were you trying to capture? What did you want me, as the viewer, to get out of these shots?
An old, decaying smallholding. But it's good to know that didn't come across, I'll choose stronger subjects.
And don't worry, I can do boring in-focus colours just fine
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My grandparents also have a decaying smallholding, so I understood some of the pictures, and liked them. But imo you forced too much the focus on the little things that are too personal for you. Like the cardboard pic
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>>2899562
>Didn't even get the verticals to be vertical --that's like basic rule #1 when shooting anything architectural.
I'll bet that structure could have made the most amazing photo but your composition just makes it look like shit. Perhaps you should consider focusing on sanitation and sewage photography. We'll get you a paying job down in the sewers, OP, but you have to promise never to photograph your grandparent's place.
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>>2899562
>And don't worry, I can do boring in-focus colours just fine
Yeah, don't get ahead of yourself their sparky. This is a pretty shitty photo. It's crooked as fuck, the lighting is fucking dildos, the color is pretty nasty and bland, and there doesn't appear to be any thought whatsoever to composition. It's just a crooked, centered pile of bricks shot in the worst mid-day light possible.
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>>2899562
>An old, decaying smallholding
So what? Who the fuck cares? You took shitty picture of decaying structures. That's probably the most fucking common thing that new photographers want to take pictures of. These have no thought behind them.
Just because you can identify the thing you're taking a picture of (hurr durr it's cardboard) doesn't mean that it's really a picture of anything. For fuck's sake, I can go outside in the alley and take a blurry, dark picture of some fucking cardboard.
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>>2899562
you should probably give up the low vantage point thing
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>>2898946
>f/22.0
what the fuck were you doing?
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>>2899875
Getting some clarity in the background
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>>2900179
And yet neither the foreground or the background is in focus.
Also
>iso 3200
>d40
>clarity
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