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Where's squelch? I would have thought this thread was right up his strasse.

Even if no one understands him! :D

Come on squelcher, it's not like you to be hiding under a bushel..... and your humour is always appreciated - if rarely understood!

(It's the alchohol talking! Honest!)
 
Corax said:
Inspired by this thread, I went out and took a couple today.

Treeflare

Reach

Neither altered at all, although any tips on PS, and also getting the best from a quite basic cam (Olympus D390 - 2megapixel) gratefully received. Guess I'll want to upgrade it at some point, but I'm sure I can get a lot more out of this first. I'm poor at the moment anyhow, so it'll have to do. :)
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I'd crop the bottom one (reach), to try and fine a better angle, perhaps crop out the trunk at the foot of the picture.

The first one, I'd knock to B&W to make it more abstract, and perhaps see if I can pull some of the textures out in the leaves and bark a little. Trees always look like coral in black and white methinks.
 
mrchriswill said:
Here is a couple

Rhys


Josie
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Cute cat, but they're snap shots. Try lying down on your belly and getting down to cat eye level, then get close to josie, pointing the camera slightly up if you can to give the impression of height - be good if you consider the setting right, (you could just have the tops of the roofs and tv aerials in the background, or something.)
 
Xanadu said:
It's not going to stand up to any critics, but I love this photo:

http://img117.echo.cx/img117/6786/pb2900356rh.jpg

Today I'm going to call it rocking thommy.
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I like this one. Simple colours and lighting and yet the picture manages to tell a story and lead the viewer almost into an aural atmosphere.

The light gives the image a very strong depth (dark foreground, medium tones in midground and light in the background). That's possibly exactly the effect the stage lighting director intended :D

The semi-abstract quality leaves plenty upto the viewers imagination without getting lost.

The strong colour is very emotive. Again, perhaps the skill of the lighting director but, the moment has been captured with feeling.
 
mrchriswill said:
Here is a couple

Rhys
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I like this one lots. It's different to your usual cat shots. Firky may be right in saying it's a snap shot but, it's a bloody good snap shot. The lines lead the eye directly to the subject. The composition is unambiguous and very striking. The angle of view also gives the image an immediate quality.

The spontanity of the photo is it's main appeal. Perhaps the lines in the wall were just a happy accident. It would be difficult to get the same result by staging the event.
 
Firky said:
The first one, I'd knock to B&W to make it more abstract, and perhaps see if I can pull some of the textures out in the leaves and bark a little. Trees always look like coral in black and white methinks.
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Hmmm... I've given it a shot, and got somewhere-ish... but it looks very washed out now and I can't seem to find how to fix that.... any pointers good people?

Treeflare

I'm not sure it's interesting enough without that greeny light either to be honest.
 
Corax said:
Hmmm... I've given it a shot, and got somewhere-ish... but it looks very washed out now and I can't seem to find how to fix that.... any pointers good people?

Treeflare

I'm not sure it's interesting enough without that greeny light either to be honest.
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What program are you using? To knock the colour out in PS just use CTRL+U :)
 
wordie said:
Where's squelch? I would have thought this thread was right up his strasse.

Even if no one understands him! :D

Come on squelcher, it's not like you to be hiding under a bushel..... and your humour is always appreciated - if rarely understood!

(It's the alchohol talking! Honest!)
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His hard drive's gone soft :D
 
spitfire said:
Here's a shot of a glider in a very strange place, just discovered www.flickr.com which seems a pretty cool place to host pix. I've only had two hours experience but it seems alright.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33464223@N00/18885610/
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Spitfire

I like that glider picture a lot. You have got a strongly defined symmetrical pattern as a frame over a simplified silhouette caused by the 'contre jour' lighting (coming straight at the camera). The glider itself the central subject is assymetrical and the diagonal of the wing gives it a dynamic look.

If I was going to do anything it would be to crop about a centimetre and a half off the top so that two of the curved struts in the hangar met at the top middle edge of the picture forming a shape like a church window. It would I think also enhance the horizontal aspect of the picture framing the glider better.

I also looked at some of your other pictures and liked the one of the two bi-planes. The one behind seemed to fit into the space in the wings of the front one. I would crop a bit of the left of the picture off so as to focus the eye on the above feature.

Hocus Eye
 
Soreenkid said:
i quite like it, just not so sure about the green cast on the sunburst mind you.
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Fair enough. Wasn't sure either. I've played around with the levels instead, but it still looks a bit bleached to me:

Here
 
wordie said:
No, no, don't play with anything. You don't need anymore details. That's a ***king top shot spitfire. Don't change a thing. If it's big enough print out a limited edition of say, 150, frame them with a simple black frame and sell each one at £149.95 on e-bay and at aircraft displays!

Yes, I am being serious!
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Wow, thanks. Very nice of you to say so. I was thinking of doing a big one for the house. I think it's only 640x480 in it's original form. Don't really know what the biggest I could get from that. There's a pro developers on my road. Might stick my head in.

Thanks again. :D
 
spitfire said:
Wow, thanks. Very nice of you to say so. I was thinking of doing a big one for the house. I think it's only 640x480 in it's original form. Don't really know what the biggest I could get from that. There's a pro developers on my road. Might stick my head in.

Thanks again. :D
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That's a bit small for what I suggested, but still you could get some smaller prints framed and still sell them.... if you can be bothered! The pro printers will tell you what you can sensibly do with your original. Have fun and don't forget to go a shoot some more! :D
 
[wordie] Thanks for the encouragement, I'll get a few printed up, Will put one aside for you (FOC natch). I'll let you know when I've done 'em. BTW I like your bridge.

Hocus eye. Thanks for the tips I'll get stuck in. Had a look at your home page, really liked the close up texture stuff.

Thanks guys, you may have started some
thing here :eek: .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallist/
 
Corax said:
I love that, especially the way the grafitti text's on the borders, but still competes with the chair for the eye's focus - probably because of the blank space where the eye naturally rests, I think. It's exactly (some of) the kind of stuff I want to be taking.
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Thanks, :)

I'm crap at taking shots of people, I should post some of them, but you've all seen them.
 
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