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>>2934833

this is impressive.

>>2934832

this too. where is it btw?

>>2934839

Hey! Thanks! The Sakura tree was taken in Shinjuku Park in Tokyo, and the pool was taken in Hearst Castle.

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The idea behind these photos of Antelope Canyon was not to just get nice, clean compositions, but to take inspiration from Chiaroscuro paintings.

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i think its a cool idea and neat processing but they dont stand on their own, maybe number 1 does but feels too "cornered", needs way more negative space, you could even shoop that to achieve it. id turn it 90° counterclockwise too.

also you should try and arrange them in a triptych, maybe they hold better that way, as a group of shapes, an essay on light if you will.

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Picture of me just throwing ceramics... I wanted to tell a story of how much character and story the room and art of making things has.

>>2934860

Thanks for the suggestions, I can definitely see that the first one does feel a little cornered now that you mention it. How would you go about photoshoping it to attain more negative space?

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Anyone have any opinions for my work overall? Any pieces that really stand out? What I'm good at? Where you think I could improve?

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>>2934862

this is a quick and dirty example of it. get the file on photoshop, make the canvas bigger, paint jar the canvas with the darkest shadow of your pic, then dodge (dodge tool on shadows, about 5%) the borders of the pic to make it blend with the dark background. after it looks passable merge it all (merge a copy so you can go back) and then start using the healing tool with content aware to make some of the lines longer. you could use some parts of your discarded shots and add them too for a more realistic look.

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>>2934876

Thank you so much! That is a great suggestion and I will definitely do that. You are right, the picture looks a lot better with more negative space.

>>2934854
that log is distracting to me. and this shot probably needed some sort of grad filter as well.

>>2934995

... might be a dumb question, but I've had a couple people tell me what a Grad filter is and UV filter and such... in laymens terms, what does it do?

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These remind me of Moriyama Daido

>>2935026

Hey! Thanks! Never heard of the guy, but I looked him up and love his style... very gritty and rebellious style... I'll definitely study his work more, so thanks for that comment.

In general I think this is a hard collection to critique because style, subject matter and technical polish is all so varied that it almost looks like they were taken by a bunch of different photographers at different skill levels.

>>2934830

I love the neat splitting of the image with the awning over the shop, and right hand side of the building. The crispness and deep depth of field flatten the image out, and combined with the dramatic exposure really makes it feel like a movie set, and the arrangement could comfortably fall into the genre of tableaux if it were staged. Love it.

>>2934832

Not really my cup of tea but the strangeness of the place and vivid colors carries it as an interesting photo. Chromatic aberration in the water is distracting, but otherwise, wow.

>>2934861

Some key lighting to bring more attention to the potter (you), and a little fill to let us wander around the background a little more would have went a long way for this photo- and of course being able to shoot at a lower ISO. If you could have achieved the crispness and drama of >>2934830 this would have been a great one.

>>2934833

Really great combination of depth of field, distortion, and vignetting. Subject matter is whatever- just a vehicle for making a nice photo.


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These are all sort of boring/forgettable for various reasons. A lot of the photos suffer from blasted out skies. Some are contextless architectural detail shots. Generally your architectural and cityscape shots have far less personality than the ones I went into detail about above.

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>>2935005
UV filters are generally just for protecting your lens. A graduated filter fades from clear at the bottom to slightly darker at the top. They're used to prevent skies from being blown out by covering the sky with the dark part and letting the ground be seen through the clear part. It's sort of like HDR before you even take the photo

>>2935129

Hey, thank you so much for the honest and good critique. I would say the reason why my subject matter vary so much is because I have just started getting into photography and haven't really studied any of the technical aspects of it or eras or any photographers. Just starting to do that, and I have to say street photography is really fun and I might delve more into it... I walk around seedier parts of cities and talk to a lot of homeless and troubled people that roam the streets for fun and some of the stuff I've seen is crazy.

i appreciate that you love wide angle. thats cool. from your thread, sometimes its effective, lots of times it falls flat, with no point of attention for the viewer to anchor on and start wandering on the picture. you need to be able to create punctum or work the dynamics of the frame.

i think these authors might interest you:

trent parke
garry winogrand
stephen shore, for the ample landscapes.
check the dusseldorff school, because fuck yeah.

also check terrence malicks films, he does good use of the wide angle.

>>2935192

Thanks for the recommendations, I love researching and getting the vibe off other artists... I love how even just observing how other authors works translates some of that into our own work.

And unbelievable! I just told my dad all about what you guys said, and he dug up an old AE-1 with a few lenses! Wow! I am for sure going to see what happens with this!

Thanks for the help so much.