Official Photography Thread: Vol. ICan'tFindTheLastOne

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Any feedback would be greatly appretiated.
airjordanjack the "macro" shot works because of shallow depth of feild so when you take a picture of something with that concept in mind, aesthetically it works because they is something in the distance not in focus... i.e. something (usually very up close) (foreground) is in really sharp focus and the background is blurred or out of focus. basically what I'm saying is try to have a back ground... the 1st achieves it the best but I think its the least promising photograph of the 3.

With the flowers I would employ perhaps a horizon line or least some more depth in the photograph, but still go with the shallow focus. shoot them at their heigh rather than just pointing the camera down on them.

With soldiers, I think toys and the like prespective is much more interesting, because you can make them seem larger or more life like with various angles i.e. like low to the ground looking upward..
 
Yo let's keep this thread moving! Seriously this thread really up'd my interest for photography...too bad i have no clue what you guys are talking about :\
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. But i am talking a photography class next year, so hopefully i'll catch on 8)
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Some of you guy's photos look :wow:
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One of my favorite pictures that I've taken. I'll probably post more later.
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I say this as someone who's been and is being formally taught photography and whoever reads it can simple take it as advice if you want to take it by all means do so and if you have any ?'s ask away and if you wanna shoot however you like by all means shoot how and whatever you like... just advice.

But the flower shots and specfically the flower macro shots or attempts at that... While personally I think its alittle over done, as result I think doing them well is held to higher standard than say shoes.

The idea of the marco shot is to have a single intense sharp focus and the rest drop off fast, hence why they make bellows and tubes(sometimes called lense babies) for cameras to allow you to move the focus off center and shorten the depth of feild. Nonetheless there are essentially 2 approaches...

the 1st of which usually requires a marco lense and/or a bellows/tube/lense baby. here the image is framed around the object and nothing else (this requires pretty short depth of feild) but looks great the depth of feild drops fast from incredibly sharp to virtually completely blured, probably like f2.8 or lower
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the 2nd is what you probably see more of alot of you can do it right out the box with dslr (but a short like 10mm tube will probably allow better framing and faster drop off w/ depth of feild) but what I see alot of is shooting down at objects and you can still shoot like this if you like but if you shoot across the object a: you have more depth in the background hence greater blur (more contrast between focus and unfocus is way good) and b: more importantly you provide the viewer with either an actual horizon line or the sense of one.
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here the horizon line isnt even visable but as the viewer we understand its there far better.

horizon lines arent a must but think of it like an air plane they have instruments to tell them where the horizon line is. why? so they know where they are. photography is no different people want to know where they are...

btw, tubes are pretty cheap I don't know what they run for 35mm dslr but I got tubes for my hassy which has the shutter in the lense a leaf shutter (meaning there is mechical stuff going thru it ) for like 50-80 used , so I'd assume even new ones for slr and dslr 35mm arent too bad... also they can either eliminate or prolong the need for expensive other lenses.
 
^^ good looks on that short tutorial. keep upwith that info.

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..am I the only one who hates macro flower shots?! Like anytime someone
wants to get into photography they go into their backyard and shoot some
flowers. Go out and explore, and start seeing the world with a rectangle
frame around it. Also, if you find a subject/object you like to shoot.. shoot
it from all angles. Don't just take that one photo and move on, there was
something that made you shoot this subject/object in the first place. So
look at it from all angles. And just shoot! That's the only want to get better,
because from there you'll develop your own style and that's what it's all
about. That YOU enjoy the pictures that YOU
 
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..am I the only one who hates macro flower shots?


Oh I hate them with a passion... I just would rather see good ones then bad ones hence the little "advice".

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Go out and explore


I had a b/w class the semester before last that you had to have 3 new rolls of film every class. i.e. had to shoot 45 rolls in a semester. thats like 1500 shots on 35mm film...

You guys with dslr's should be living that life, the 35mm camera was built for you to just rip thru film. With dslr it cost you nothing to shoot and 35mm wasnt built to spend 10mins composing a shot... thats why they have medium and large format. Even 35mm film is cheaper, for me 12 shots (a roll of 120film) in color costs nearly $8 w/ processing. Shoot and set them up as contact sheets, looking even thumbnail images you can tell compostion...

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and start seeing the world with a rectangle
frame around it.


I like square, 6x6 but nontheless, seeing compositions even without a camera is def. something to do...
 
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..am I the only one who hates macro flower shots?!
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That lens is amazing. I really need a wide angle lens, one with minimal
distortion like a 14mm or 20mm and I also want a fish-eye lens or a lens
like yours with some serious distortion. It makes every photo interesting.
Though your pictures are always crisp, I'm usually not a fan of your subject
matter (which seems to only be your shoes or random items around the
house). But I really enjoyed this set and the set you posted on I$$. Props!
 
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solistik, do you use PS to enhance the contrast/colors at all?
Yeah, I'm an avid supporter of using PS to enhance photos. As most
people stated, if you take photos with film and print your own prints.. you
do some stuff in the darkroom to make your photo look a lot better whether
it's burning, dodging, using filters to increase or decrease contrast, etc.
And if you shoot digital, you should do the same using PS. As far as I am
concerned, post production of photos is necessary.
 
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Oh I hate them with a passion... I just would rather see good ones then
bad ones hence the little "advice".
I hear ya', and it's awesome you're helping others out in this thread. Truly
appreciated. Even though to be honest, I personally would rather not see
one at all but we both know that'll never happen. Ha!
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I had a b/w class the semester before last that you had to have 3 new
rolls of film every class. i.e. had to shoot 45 rolls in a semester. thats
like 1500 shots on 35mm film...

You guys with dslr's should be living that life, the 35mm camera was
built for you to just rip thru film. With dslr it cost you nothing to shoot
and 35mm wasnt built to spend 10mins composing a shot... thats why
they have medium and large format. Even 35mm film is cheaper, for me
12 shots (a roll of 120film) in color costs nearly $8 w/ processing. Shoot
and set them up as contact sheets, looking even thumbnail images you
can tell compostion...
shooting at least fifty different shots (I say
different, because I tend to bracket my shots) everyday this summer
and just hopes it transitions over to the rest of the year and from there
for the rest of my life. I also got some projects I want to get going
already, so hopefully I'll have those projects running soon and
completed by summer's end.
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I like square, 6x6 but nontheless, seeing compositions even without a
camera is def. something to do...
Depending on the subject and the project, I will crop the photo into a
square but I'm quite bias to the traditional rectangle picture.
 
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