My pic thread

[Haim]

okay... i know that the following images have been posted in post up your whore and off topic but i started this thread so people who know photography could constructivly critisize my photos so that i could take better ones.

i will update this thread regularly with my new favourite pics as i take them!

put this in your subscribed threads list! haha i hope that it will be worth it.

any way... for starters...






i love food...

[Haim]

and another one which i took this morning....

[phonix]

Orange Chicken!

[Haim]

oh yes! i got a reply! haha yeah, its terribly tastey!!

[mr_tec]

the cat pic looks good

[A18Accord]

they look pretty damn good if you ask me. hmm umm the only critisisisisim i could think of is in that 2nd pic theres a car in the background contaminating it.

[SLOTEG]

they look pretty damn good if you ask me. hmm umm the only critisisisisim i could think of is in that 2nd pic theres a car in the background contaminating it.

yeah ill say so too, would have been better with it moved
also the teg pics are a little dark, maybe a bit of flash would have helped, some low fill stuff, not full blast, either bounced off a reflective card like ive got on my big sunpak flash or thru a couple layers of tissue paper to help mute how strong it is

[EGD]

the cat one is quite a nice bokeh, pretty sharp. both the itr shots are bit soft tho, and i would think of the composition more.

wht's the setting one the gearnob? i would try drop the aperture right open and use a faster shutter and crop on the gearnob a bit.

[Haim]

the new one... haha ... my white balance was set to in doors! yet i got this.. haha next time ill remember to set it! DOH!

[EGD]

now its a good one.
have a good read on this if you got some time;http://morguefile.com/archive/classr...aea394a33309db
it covers some good concepts for morden digital photography

[Haim]

now its a good one.
have a good read on this if you got some time;http://morguefile.com/archive/classr...aea394a33309db
it covers some good concepts for morden digital photography

Sweet as! haha ! I bookmarked the page... i will read sone time soon.. i'm reading some book now... it's a WHOLE lot of info to take in at once... so i see myself reading this book (750 pages of how to make the most out of your d300....) at least twice... it's heaps of info...

Do you go to NZH meets?

[EGD]

Sweet as! haha ! I bookmarked the page... i will read sone time soon.. i'm reading some book now... it's a WHOLE lot of info to take in at once... so i see myself reading this book (750 pages of how to make the most out of your d300....) at least twice... it's heaps of info...

Do you go to NZH meets?

hehe, yes i certainly do

[Haim]

want to give me a few tips on the next monthly meet on wed? ( 23 or something... isnt it?)

[4VTECN]

is it just me or is the background to blurry, its messing with my eyes and Im sure its not suppose to be like that

[phonix]

It is the focal length of the lens he is using. To give you an idea of how it works, hold your finger right infront of your face and stare at it, notice how the background is blurry? Now stare past your finger and focus on something in the distance, now your finger is blurred right? The focal length of your lens (eyes) is what gives that effect, same thing here.

EDIT: That photo above perhaps could have been composed a bit better? There is a lot of that boring blurred gravel to the right doing nothing. Perhaps got closer for a macro or tried a different angle. Looks like you are coming along quickly though!

[Haim]

thanks ^^^ one would only hope that i'm making progress.... im doing my best to learn....

any way... this is the best pics i took tonight.... ( they kinda' disappointed me... but oh well.... )

I didnt want to screw around so i set it to auto iso... high iso is set to low and sharpening to 0. i also set the white balance to auto.

[b18c1]

what shutter speed you using on the above photos?

[Haim]

The first one is 15 second shutter with f/16
The second one is 15 second shutter with f/20

[Haim]

A random flower in the garden i would like to share with you.....

[SLOTEG]

ok that one is good, should have cropped out that bud on the right and zoomed in/cropped in photoshop to remove alot of the background, its detracting from the flower itself, the image feels quite cluttered

[Haim]

hmmm .... i tri to avoid editing an image...i try to get the photos straight off the camera as they are... umm... ill do waht you are suggesting next time... but the little thingy on the top right was there becasue i couldn't actually move the camera right or left as there is a whole bunch of crap floweres on either side... also i was at maximum focal length on that one.

[SLOTEG]

the whole point of having a digital cam is to manipulate the image quickly and easily, a little crop wont hurt it, infact it would improve the image a bit

when i learned back in 1994 to take b/w photos, develop the film and print it all myself in the school darkroom, even then we cropped alot of shit out of the pics. sometimes you take the best pic you can and rely on manipulating the image afterwards in print/photoshop to bring out what your trying to show

if that makes any sense

[ITR_cam]

for those ones on the waterfront.. try and wait for a bus or big truck to go past.. the result is usually insane.. the first flower pic would have been better if you took it like the second.. needs the detail

the car pics are too dark, kinda look noisy too

keep tryin, have a search on flickr an try to learn from the pros

[Snapz]

Love the first teg one, and really like the kitty one, looks like our cat . Out of all the photos, I am not sure the gear knob one gives you justice...but Iagree with what EGD said about it in his comment. I like your first night shot but not keen on the reflective arrows...find them a bit distracting, and I would cheat and PS some of the lens flare out. Think you have some great shots though!

[Haim]

Love the first teg one, and really like the kitty one, looks like our cat . Out of all the photos, I am not sure the gear knob one gives you justice...but Iagree with what EGD said about it in his comment. I like your first night shot but not keen on the reflective arrows...find them a bit distracting, and I would cheat and PS some of the lens flare out. Think you have some great shots though!

Great! that's what i need... a photographers opinion... keen it in your subscribed threads.. ill try to update it along with the other identical thread on cam labs