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Went on vacation. Took some snapshits, polished some turds.
I'd be interested in other people's thoughts on the post on a few of these - I have a feel I have the habit of going a bit overboard at times with the contrast or color adjustments, so if there's anything particularly nauseating or vomit-inducing, let me know (would also appreciate if you also point out the opposite).
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I liked the "finger" grabbing the sun in this one.
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The colors feel a bit too intense here, but I had trouble getting it to look right in more desaturated versions :(
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This marvelous lightshow was over pretty fast. I was disappointed I did not have the time to get to a better vantage point for more interesting framing, but eh, life is.
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I had to take this in a hurry, and it shows :( A bit miffed because I really like the background clouds - feel almost like a watercolor, and the wet pavement frm the drizzle that passed makes for a nice effect.
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I'm not quite sure about this one. The formation is kinda interesting, leading the viewer into the image, but I'm not quite feeling it despite that. Anyone feel I should just crop away the leftmost part of the image?
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Was walking around, it was raining. Then the sun took a quick peek through the clouds.
I like this one.
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I feel I should probably have positioned myself slightly more to the left, so that the two lines on the ground would have exited straight from the lens POV. And probably also have waited for that ugly blue Fiat to pass. Not sure about the lady's location.
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I kind of wanted to include the whole road in front here as a base for the image, but my back was up against a wall/hill, so couldn't do that, and I ended up cropping what little i had of it away completely instead. Sometimes you just can't win?
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It's a big one.
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I feel I really should have included more road to the right in this one (and not cropped the house on top in half), the cut-off feels too abrupt IMO. I'm not quite sure why I didn't.
Otherwise I quite like the flow of this image.
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I'm quite happy with this image overall, tho I'm pondering if I made it slightly too warm/yellowish?
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This is my favourite image of the set. Perfect location, perfect timing.
Only thing I'd change is I should have included just a teensy bit more of the bottommost foreground.
That's it, rip away.
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>>3001493
Ooops, the comment in >>3001477 was meant for this image.
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Guess I should be happy I have apparently reached that level of medicrocity where you don' ellicit explicit negative "it's horrible shit" -tier comments, but neither positive ones.
Or maybe I just need to adopt some gay tripcode in order to garner some modicum of response?
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>>3001985
Be still, my child. 'tis a slow board. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But you said it yourself. They aren't exceptionally bad, but they leave room for improvement. There isn't much to talk about here; I'm guessing your goal is straight photography and not much else, in which case you've got to have high standards and wait for only the best light and composition.
One area you might work on is making more dynamic compositions. A lot of these look to be at eye level looking at scenes from a standard point of view. Think about including more foreground interest, use leading lines and get higher or lower more often. Don't be afraid to zoom in more, your OP image for example would look better if the subject was a lot closer.
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All of it has a very amateur feeling. You are saying yourself a lot of things you do realize you should have done. That's good. Next time do it. That's how you learn.
Pick up the camera and go keep practicing.
>>3001486
This one is my favourite. Not completely sure about the editing but its nice.
>>3001491
I'm not sure I like the ladies there.
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Some of these ar great.
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>>3001985
>I have apparently reached that level of medicrocity where you don' ellicit explicit negative "it's horrible shit" -tier comments, but neither positive ones.
I know this feel. Same thing happened to me when I posted a thread of photos a month ago.
That being said, most of your pictures are mostly unremarkable apart from an element here and there, >>3001466
>>3001460
but it's not enough to carry the whole image and make it drive an emotional response. The ones like>>3001477
>>3001471 are pretty but touristy, postcardy.
I think >>3001475 could have done with some subtle HDR or bracketing.
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>>3001486
These are a bit too monotone green for my taste.
>>3001491 >>3001472 These I like a lot.
>>3002071 This looks like a VHS screengrab.
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>>3002077
>I'm guessing your goal is straight photography and not much else, in which case you've got to have high standards and wait for only the best light and composition.
If I'm alone - with just me and my camera, and all the time in the world, this is usually what I'm mostly striving for. Or well, I guess what I actually want is to elicit similar feelings in images that I experience myself on location.
I know just snapping pictures of cool things unfortunately does not do that - others were not there, they don't experience the same nostalgia I get when looking at "just a picture" I took. Which is why you need to imbue the images themselves with something more than just "cold facts". But, so far the magic of how to imbue emotion into images is still a fairly arcane art in my eyes and mind - I have a long journey ahead of me.
That said, I really do enjoy those small moments of joy when you feel you got something done really well in this hobby. I think I took something close to 700-1000 shots on this trip (many of them of course just general tourist pics of friends), and maybe 5 of them are the kind that elicit this feel in me - but that feel from those 5 images is all i need to keep going.
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>>3002077
>A lot of these look to be at eye level looking at scenes from a standard point of view. Think about including more foreground interest, use leading lines and get higher or lower more often. Don't be afraid to zoom in more, your OP image for example would look better if the subject was a lot closer.
I've gotten more into the habit of not just staying eye-level if better framing can be had other ways, but generally I would agree with you.
I think one of my main, long-standing issues is actually in "seeing" the image itself while on location - As you can see from the comments partly, I have a habit of picking up a lot of things only way after the fact once I'm home/doing post etc, and by that time the moment is of course long gone.
I guess the takeway is that I should strive to be much more methodological when snapping photos? At the moment I am pretty spammy, with a habit of snapping lot's of images of the same thing with slightly different settings, and figuring out the best version "later". It's like I'm not trusting my own judgement of what the image should look like/will look like in post when on-location, or something. There's also a feeling of hurry and pressure often, if not from other people traveling with you, then from you yourself fearing missing out that magic moment while fumbling with the camera.
tl;dr: how to calm the fuck down and open your eyes and actually see what's around you?
>>3002071
...And this is someone else, in case it was unclear.
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>>3002078
>I'm not sure I like the ladies there.
Interesting point - I originally thought they were a great lucky stroke, bringing balance the bottom left side of the image, which I felt was fairly empty otherwise.
Now that I tried to put my finger over them, I can sort of see where you're coming from - they do kind of draw your eye to them automatically, and thus away from the actual scene itself.
Have to look if I have a pic of the bottom left frame without them and re-make the pano without them, just to compare.
>>3002095
Ty for comments, will contemplate them. Agree about "postcardy". Not that there is something wrong with postcard -look per se, but I'd kind of want to learn to express something stronger or more personal feeling.
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>>3002135
You make a lot of good points and you sound like you're starting to grasp what makes a good photograph and how to get there. I can't say much other than to keep shooting and keep looking to improve; you'll get to where you want to be if you keep it up.
>with a habit of snapping lot's of images of the same thing with slightly different settings, and figuring out the best version "later".
This is how I started out and how I learned to critique myself and get better. Soon enough you'll be out there armed with knowledge of how to get that "magic", and that's when it all becomes clearer.
>It's like I'm not trusting my own judgement of what the image should look like/will look like in post when on-location, or something.
It's a good idea to imagine the final print as you're taking the shot, at least that's how I do it.
Re: trusting your own judgement, I know how that feels. Not sure if you can relate to this but I have a tendency to feel pressured not just by time, but by this sense that I need to keep uploading to social media, that I need to post a lot of images up because "what if somebody else likes it even if I don't?" But that's silly because I should be trying to please myself and my own high standards first, not anyone else.
>There's also a feeling of hurry and pressure often, if not from other people traveling with you,
It is pretty hard to take photos you're really proud of while traveling, especially if you didn't travel just to take photos.
> then from you yourself fearing missing out that magic moment while fumbling with the camera.
You might go ham on an image, thinking you nailed the light, composition and timing, then come home and think "shoot, why didn't I do this?" Not a lot can be done about that critical inner voice - it wants you to be better but sometimes you have to give yourself some credit.
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>>3002078
>I'm not sure I like the ladies there.
Same. I wish they weren't there.
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I like ur turds OP
im pooping right now too btw
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I don't like any
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>>3001473
Not sure what /p/ thinks about this, but i'd have corrected the perspective of this
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>>3001491
So, based on some of the comments here, I actually went and shooped out the girls in the bottom left, just to see what it'd actually look like.
Honestly, now that I see this and can compare directly, I'd say i prefer the image - as framed currently - better with them, IMO.
I also tried cropping the bottom foreground away completely, but I wasn't quite feeling that version either. While it succeeds in moving the focus of the eyes more on the scene itself, it just feels empty IMO - It's still a nice scene, but I feel the lack of the girls & foreground also makes it decidedly more unpersonal, as if removing the "story" from the picture.
Of course, there's also the reverse direction you could take;
>>3004294
>Crop it, make the ladies bigger
I think the idea to empathize the girls more is a good one, but personally I don't see how you could do it by cropping, while still preserving the grandness of the scenery at the same time. I'm open to ideas, though, so shoot away.
I guess something to take away here is that the ideal scenery might have been shot from a slightly different angle? And that if you'd want to focus on the girls you'd benefited from getting in closer & making them a bigger actual element of the whole image?
OTOH, sometimes people are nice to have in an image just to give it a sense of scale. Thoughts?
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