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[Astral/H3X]

a) Since I do enjoy reading second opinions to feedback I give, I'll try the same with similar caveat, albeit a bit late:

b) Pictures:
Picture 1: I like the background colours. I actually like that she kind of blurs into the background. But I too agree with the too shallow depth of field. I'm not sure about cutting the gun of either, I think if you do it just to lead out of the frame it would work just as well with the gun completely shown. Perhaps cropping the picture quite a bit more might be helpful, I think I'd have the bottom right corner of the frame be her crotch but leave the format in landscape and the top left corner as is. Be it due to bokeh or just the model, I think visually the gun and her head are the most interesting parts to look at.

Picture 2: I think that's a bit too close and again too much bokeh, especially around her eyes. I think the earring is visually interesting and could be featured bigger.

Picture 3: I think in terms of composition your 'moon' might be better placed a bit further away from her. In fact I probably would prefer the camera to be further away. But obviously you had certain constraints with you setup that might make this impossible.

c) In general, and this too might be hard to do differently from my few tries with macro photography: Less bokeh... way less in fact would probably help most pictures and also more focus on fewer interesting details. As is, for me it straddles a bit of an uncanny middle ground.

d) Considering leaving an empty line between your pictures like vern does, makes viewing them here easier.

I'm hearing a lot of calls for less Bokeh. I'll have to find a way around that, especially with a 100mm macro. I tend to be a complete bokeh whore (1.4 or gtfo ), but on these figures I can definitely see where it's just too much bokeh. I'll try and see what I can do to lessen that effect.

 

[RayStorm]

Thanks for the feedback man, appreciate it a lot.

As do I Half the fun of photography to me is discussing what I (or others did).

I tend to not really crop my photos unless I really feel it's necessary, but I think you are right about the wedding picture for sure. On the other hand I really like the setting with the calligraphy guy. It's a massage/Chinese medicine/salon type place, and these all kind of have this look and feel. I suppose without really knowing China it doesn't mean much, but I like the shit microwave next to the massage bed, along with the reflexology type shit on the wall. I think it helps set the scene more and gives it a sense of place that people familiar with China would understand. Cropping it kind of makes it into a living room of someone's home or some other generic place.

In general why not crop? Especially considering your subject matter I would (or rather have in similar matters) extensively cropped my pictures. I feel it helps to make them better and more focused, since in split second situations (e.g. when unstaged action happens), it's hard to be in the right position at the right time.
I think what I mostly see with the portrait picture of the calligraphy guy is the corner of the wall and the painted on flower. That to me is not that visually interesting/giving me that much more insight into his life in relation to how much space it takes up in the frame.

I know the smoking guy and the toenails and that sort of thing aren't for everyone. I like to shoot that stuff. The veins in his arms, the yellow toenail. I like it. I know most people don't. I also take pictures of garbage and piles of poop. To me it's part of the human experience, but most people tell me it's gross at worst, uninteresting at best. Toenail guy I agree with you the photo of him sitting is a better photograph, and probably most people would enjoy it better than the first photo I posted, I like to have some different kinds of photos that I share if possible. I take lots of portraits in the street, sometimes I think maybe it's too much, especially since the types of Chinese people willing to let me take their photo and talk to them tend to be old men with nothing better to do. It's hard to get women or younger people to stop for photos out here.

Oddly enough I now feel the desire to tell you the very opposite I just told JadedWalker about posting pictures you like vs. what you feel others will like
But seriously, obviously it's very much an artistic choice about what and how you want to show certain aspects (or not). I think, and that's a bit harder here maybe, a bit of (written) narration helps in that case. But I certainly am no stranger to the conflict between a picture I find interesting versus one that is interesting for others to see.
That being said: I think both pictures of the guy are interesting, but the closeup of the toenail probably gains by not being on its own and having the other picture shown as well. Otherwise I feel that picture has too little information by itself to really give the viewer all that much to talk about. Hm...

5) I pretty much had to shoot this wide open, it was in a little alcove (not just the guy in his shop, but me too). I like the depth personally, though probably would like the girl to the left of the frame a bit more, and ideally the guy on the right not sticking his glasses or his phone into the photo. Cropping might help it I think, though I'd lose the cool photos on the ceiling and the disco ball thing... which was the reason for the low angle that you don't like. Haha can't win them all.

Oh, I don't mind the low angle. By angle I actually meant just what you also said about having the girl more to the left and the shopkeeper be uncovered. I think the position of the shopkeeper and you as well is fine. That being said the phone on the right is a minor distraction.

Any thoughts on the face of my portraits in the grass? I don't know your photography background... do you shoot portraits much? My advice on how to get the girl to pose better that I gave to Jaded earlier, any thoughts on that? I mean, it works for me I think to get the girl to be loose and natural, but I'm not much of a portrait photographer ( like you said, we all feel question our abilities lol). Cheers.

I am a bit lazy about posting my pictures, mostly due to not having found a solid solution of generating the code to multiple flickr pictures at once and having to generate the bb-code for each picture individually.

Anyway... I hardly dabble in portraiture. On that note, an interesting topic in itself is the actual definition of a portrait. At least it has been an interesting topic to me in the not too distant past

Onwards:

I'm not sure if I shared these photos here or not before, but I just wanted to talk with you Jaded about head positioning, facial expression, and that sort of thing.

a) I think you gave sound advice. But I think that the poses of his models are mostly fine, I feel that the biggest improvements he could make is the way he positions the camera and flash. I think the angles and distance he chooses is the thing to quickly see big improvements.

b)Lady in the grass:
I just noticed with the same subject matter, it would make things easier, if you gave your pictures individual file names. As such I have to use the rather unreliable "first picture, second picture etc.) anyway...
In general I don't find much I'd consider flawed. Thoughts:
1) Her expression seems a bit forced. I like the way the grass surrounds her. Not sure about her neon green arm-warmers as a clothing choice in general and especially with the green grass all around her.
2) I like it. But I will grant you, I do like high key photography that borders on being overexposed for faces. I also like that angle from above. I probably would have positioned her a bit more in the center of the frame or if not centered then to the left and not the right edge. But as you may have noticed and will soon enough, that might be a preference of mine. I also like the grass surrounding her and that in front of her being in focus as well.
3) I like it as well. Also nice to see a horizon and the city in the background. I wonder about the movement of her hair. Or rather that it's just the one strand that seems to be in motion. Again, I think the frame would be a bit better if she (or rather her face in this case, as her shoulders do appear to be) was either centered in the frame or the way she looks/her body is looking towards had more space. I also wonder about her closed eyes. And lastly now that I have looked a bit longer at it, perhaps her head should be a bit lower, so that is fully encircled by the bright green grass? Or maybe it should reach into the sky. As is, it's kind of ending with what I assume to be dark green trees. And the high rise kind of grows out of her head. Not badly as it's way different in colour and sharpness, but still kind of. But I do like the grass in front, and that also being mostly in focus.
4) Closed eyes here with the sunlight hitting her face works better than in the last picture. I like her position (physical as well as within the frame). But might work better in landscape format.
5) A rather stern look. Also position of her within the frame is not to my preference (see above). And I think you lose the background of the city too much. The higher grass blades reaching her lips (especially that one) I don't think I really like them. Though I can see some merit to doing something like that, but then I'd probably focus on the grass (in terms of focus and having the one blade of grass fill the frame) and have her as a bokeh-blurry background to the detailed grass.
6) A friendly look. I think it works better than 3 for the there mentioned reasons. It has the same grass that tries to pick her nose as 5 though.
7) She looks to the right of the frame, I would like to see more of the grass in her view. The grass in front of her head is less distracting than in the two pictures before, that's okay here. She looks friendly and kind. I like her expression here the most of all 7 pictures.

 

[JadedWriter]

Sounds like once I get better at flash positioning and stop hacking off body parts my stuff will take a big leap in improvement.

 

[RayStorm]

Sounds like once I get better at flash positioning and stop hacking off body parts my stuff will take a big leap in improvement.

I would think so. Perhaps dabble a bit in natural light portraiture with the intent of closely looking at what the light does to the face of your model? Or as someone else suggested, if you don't have a human model at hand, find a sculpture (be it in the shape of a human or not) and give it a go with your flash and reflector and see if you can't get some nice even and soft lighting going.
And also just take two steps back when you take a picture. And be very careful about shooting upwards at someone.

 

[JadedWriter]

I would think so. Perhaps dabble a bit in natural light portraiture with the intent of closely looking at what the light does to the face of your model? Or as someone else suggested, if you don't have a human model at hand, find a sculpture (be it in the shape of a human or not) and give it a go with your flash and reflector and see if you can't get some nice even and soft lighting going.
And also just take two steps back when you take a picture. And be very careful about shooting upwards at someone.

I'm short, at times I'm shooting upwards at people regardless. I've done natural light before actually a couple of times for a photo shoot. The first session with that woman was natural light and I had one a couple of months before that. I guess the purpose would be to pay more attention to how the light hits people and creates facial shadows. And yeah I should start taking a step or two back either that or not zoom in as much, I have a bad habit of doing that with my 70-200, which on my camera is a 105-300.

 

[RayStorm]

I'm short, at times I'm shooting upwards at people regardless. I've done natural light before actually a couple of times for a photo shoot. The first session with that woman was natural light and I had one a couple of months before that. I guess the purpose would be to pay more attention to how the light hits people and creates facial shadows.

Exactly. I think it's not a bad idea to reduce your focus about what to look out for to one thing each time. Just to see for yourself, what works, why it works and how it works without being overwhelmed by having to consider 27 things at once.

So day 1 it's light, maybe just light, how your subjects becomes nicely and evenly lit.
Day 2 it might be shadows, how you can control them, where you want them to be, how you want them to be.
Day 3 you might consider trying to move a bit away from you subject and including more or less of the surrounding landscape.
Day 4 you think just about at which angle (in terms of height) you position the camera in relation to your subject.
Day 5 you worry about the horizontal angle of your camera.
Day 6 you think about how you position your subject within your frame.
Day 7 you think about where you position your subject within your frame.
Day 8 you take notice to how your subject interacts with the world around by the way of where your subject is oriented to.
Day 9 you allow your subject to physically interact with the world and think about how that should happen.
Day 10...

 

[JadedWriter]

Exactly. I think it's not a bad idea to reduce your focus about what to look out for to one thing each time. Just to see for yourself, what works, why it works and how it works without being overwhelmed by having to consider 27 things at once.

So day 1 it's light, maybe just light, how your subjects becomes nicely and evenly lit.
Day 2 it might be shadows, how you can control them, where you want them to be, how you want them to be.
Day 3 you might consider trying to move a bit away from you subject and including more or less of the surrounding landscape.
Day 4 you think just about at which angle (in terms of height) you position the camera in relation to your subject.
Day 5 you worry about the horizontal angle of your camera.
Day 6 you think about how you position your subject within your frame.
Day 7 you think about where you position your subject within your frame.
Day 8 you take notice to how your subject interacts with the world around by the way of where your subject is oriented to.
Day 9 you allow your subject to physically interact with the world and think about how that should happen.
Day 10...

I swear I consciously think about two to three of those things max at one time, which I try to think about all of that and well...something goes wrong which inversely just effects everything else. I think if I did this stuff more I'd be better with that, but it seems like after I learn something it's a lot of time before I can put it into practice and I forget.

 

[CitizenVectron]

2 pictures I'm submitting into an amateur photo contest for a calendar (theme is good morning, good afternoon, and good night).

English Bay, Vancouver:

Farmer's Field, Regina:

I know HDR photos aren't popular, but I specifically wanted to do it in this case for the painting-like effect since I've seen so many paintings of farmer's fields where I live (prairies in Canada). My only concern with this one is that the colour balance might be too green, and I might need to shift it to magenta a bit. But I also don't want to make it "pop" too much, or be too surreal.

 

[RayStorm]

I swear I consciously think about two to three of those things max at one time, which I try to think about all of that and well...something goes wrong which inversely just effects everything else. I think if I did this stuff more I'd be better with that, but it seems like after I learn something it's a lot of time before I can put it into practice and I forget.

Hence why you shouldn't lose yourself within the details and only focus on the very broad things. And if you were to focus on the details do it step by step to gain understanding.
Many of those things are related to one another, I just tried to break them down to a very small level. And most of them come automatically anyway in time or by chance. But the things you have direct and complete control over, your position and if you use influence light in any way you should keep at the forefront of your mind.

 

[JadedWriter]

Hence why you shouldn't lose yourself within the details and only focus on the very broad things. And if you were to focus on the details do it step by step to gain understanding.
Many of those things are related to one another, I just tried to break them down to a very small level. And most of them come automatically anyway in time or by chance. But the things you have direct and complete control over, your position and if you use influence light in any way you should keep at the forefront of your mind.

So pretty much I need to get a better grasp of the basics before I rush off and do more advanced shit, which in turn is fucking up the basics.

 

[thespot84]

2 pictures I'm submitting into an amateur photo contest for a calendar (theme is good morning, good afternoon, and good night).

English Bay, Vancouver:

Farmer's Field, Regina:

I know HDR photos aren't popular, but I specifically wanted to do it in this case for the painting-like effect since I've seen so many paintings of farmer's fields where I live (prairies in Canada). My only concern with this one is that the colour balance might be too green, and I might need to shift it to magenta a bit. But I also don't want to make it "pop" too much, or be too surreal.

Good thinking on the painting effects, the second one reminds me of a monet: https://goo.gl/nIHESx

 

[JdFoX187]

I've been taking on more and more work as a photographer at the newspaper I work for and have continued to expand my dabblings in hobby photography over the past several years. All of my equipment got stolen in a break-in back in March, but I'm slowly piecing it together. Finally got a 50 mm f/1.8 that I've been eyeballing for a longtime. I usually end up using my 18-140VR or 70-300VR for the majority of my news shots, so I haven't had a whole lot of time to dabble with primes. But I'm loving what it can do with my D7200, even if it slightly overexposes. I was messing around with it last night and snapped a quick photo of one of my cats before he bolted off.

Runt by jdrsnoop, on Flickr

Also managed to snap this one covering a fire a while back. Terrible situation, but I really loved the shot with the sunlight filtering through the smoke.

Firefighter by jdrsnoop, on Flickr

 

[Lucky Forward]

Sunrise on the Outer Banks, North Carolina, with the Lee Littlestopper 6-stop neutral density filter.

IMG_1788 by Lucky Forward, on Flickr

IMG_1807 by Lucky Forward, on Flickr

IMG_2424 by Lucky Forward, on Flickr

IMG_2499 by Lucky Forward, on Flickr

 

[rSpooky]

Just borrowed these 3 leica lenses. A quick test shows these are amazing. Cant wait to try them when I am having a few days off.. Better not lose these.

Edit.. Now I Kinda dont know what kind of pics to go taken with them... LoL.(cant make up my mind)

 

[rSpooky]

Sunrise on the Outer Banks, North Carolina, with the Lee Littlestopper 6-stop neutral density filter.

WOW...beautiful

 

[vern]

In general why not crop? Especially considering your subject matter I would (or rather have in similar matters) extensively cropped my pictures. I feel it helps to make them better and more focused, since in split second situations (e.g. when unstaged action happens), it's hard to be in the right position at the right time.
I think what I mostly see with the portrait picture of the calligraphy guy is the corner of the wall and the painted on flower. That to me is not that visually interesting/giving me that much more insight into his life in relation to how much space it takes up in the frame.

A mix of factors I guess. I take a ton of photos (especially on that trip) and don't have time to go through every single photo and edit extensively, plus for some reason usually when I crop I feel like the picture becomes cramped (psychological problem I guess). I usually only crop to get rid of something that really detracts from the photo...if something is just there but not bad or good, I'll tend to just leave it. It's part of the scene.

Oddly enough I now feel the desire to tell you the very opposite I just told JadedWalker about posting pictures you like vs. what you feel others will like
But seriously, obviously it's very much an artistic choice about what and how you want to show certain aspects (or not). I think, and that's a bit harder here maybe, a bit of (written) narration helps in that case. But I certainly am no stranger to the conflict between a picture I find interesting versus one that is interesting for others to see.
That being said: I think both pictures of the guy are interesting, but the closeup of the toenail probably gains by not being on its own and having the other picture shown as well. Otherwise I feel that picture has too little information by itself to really give the viewer all that much to talk about. Hm...

JadedWalker, Texas Ranger? Lol. I agree the pictures work better together, but I don't wanna spam 20 photos here each time. I already share a bunch haha.

Oh, I don't mind the low angle. By angle I actually meant just what you also said about having the girl more to the left and the shopkeeper be uncovered. I think the position of the shopkeeper and you as well is fine. That being said the phone on the right is a minor distraction.

Agree.

I am a bit lazy about posting my pictures, mostly due to not having found a solid solution of generating the code to multiple flickr pictures at once and having to generate the bb-code for each picture individually.

Anyway... I hardly dabble in portraiture. On that note, an interesting topic in itself is the actual definition of a portrait. At least it has been an interesting topic to me in the not too distant past

Tried to look through your work. Chinese internet has a hell of a time loading flickr even through VPN...it's such a pain using that site. Saw mostly street stuff though yeah? Organized into folders in German or something haha. Would be cool if you could share some of your work here in this thread, flickr images linked on message boards load about 99% of the time out here, without VPN, so this is the best way for me to see it personally.

Onwards:
Lady in grass/naming/etc.

Again, Flickr is a pain in the ass out here with constant timeouts and other issues, when I manage to upload things in a reasonable timeframe and without errors it's pretty much a miracle. Because of that, and because of trying to organize this trip across China, batch uploading is just easier. Previously I would name most things uniquely. And will (mostly) do so in future now that this trip is done.

About her clothes... yeah like I said this obviously wasn't a proper photoshoot. Just a bit of fun for a 5 minutes tops as we wandered. I agree with most of your comments (not all lol)... Mainly it was to show Jaded Walker some other ways to position his models face and also to see what others think, composition of the rest of the photos could be ignored. I think a lot of times the angles aren't flattering on the girls face, shooting up from under their chin or face square to the camera, that sort of thing. I think you can only really get away with square to the camera in some specific instances, but mostly the girl should be less square, body too.


Not photography exactly, though you can see me in action shooting some photos... our first proper episode Crossing China, though still kind of a preview in many ways (because the trip changed majorly pretty quickly), is now up on YouTube. Would love if you guys could let me know your thoughts, and even subscribe if you like it and wanna see more. https://youtu.be/H_IYLBCe5Gg

 

[Thug Waffle]

Mom Shooting by instagram.com/thetmostk, on Flickr

 

[Deleted member 18827]

Not much of a photographer but loved these shots I got of my son at the beach.

 

[vern]

Not much of a photographer but loved these shots I got of my son at the beach.

Crop out your shadow in that first one.

Also squat down next time so your at the same level as him and his head is higher than the horizon instead of bisected by it.

Spoiler

Is it wrong that the main reason I want a kid is so I can take photos of him/her?

 

[BokehKing]

Sunrise on the Outer Banks, North Carolina, with the Lee Littlestopper 6-stop neutral density filter.

IMG_1788 by Lucky Forward, on Flickr

IMG_1807 by Lucky Forward, on Flickr

IMG_2424 by Lucky Forward, on Flickr

IMG_2499 by Lucky Forward, on Flickr

As a fellow Lee user, love these shots!!

 

[brerwolfe]

https://youtu.be/H_IYLBCe5Gg

I watched this and left some comments in the filmmaking thread!

 

[Fuser]

Lee ftw. Those are great shots

Finalists for the Astrophotographer of the year were released today, some incredible images in there - https://www.theguardian.com/science...rapher-of-the-year-2016-shortlist-in-pictures

I did enter myself but unfortunately was not shortlisted (I found out months ago). I did chuckle this morning when a photo very similar to my own entry - which was taken from the same spot on the same night - was included though

 

[mooksoup]

I'm like a week behind catching up on this thread. A whole bunch of beautiful things have been going on here <3

this is so pretty, awesome work

Inner Mongolia - Crossing china by Eric, on Flickr

whole shoot here is great. love this, the light is great.

I've been a bit out of it, here's a couple of things i've been fiddling about with while i've been kinda sick.. my face, and stuff i can see from my apartment hah.

still feeling pastel stripes edity. will get it out of my system eventually. (last year everything was pastel polka dots for a while...)

rotate 4 by Bodie, on Flickr

Untitled by Bodie, on Flickr

 

[MikeDown]

EDIT: Also, really great shots in this thread!


Really gonna try to get back into photography, feel like I have been back sliding on my technique.

Here are a few shots from the Olympic Trials:

(I would have had like to get a better angle, but they were very strict about seating and standing up/moving, that and they wouldn't let me bring in a longer lens)
From Smith Rock:

Would like to get a better camera at some point, but I feel like i need to improve substantially to justify that investment.

 

[brerwolfe]

EDIT: Also, really great shots in this thread!


Really gonna try to get back into photography, feel like I have been back sliding on my technique.

Here are a few shots from the Olympic Trials:

(I would have had like to get a better angle, but they were very strict about seating and standing up/moving, that and they wouldn't let me bring in a longer lens)
From Smith Rock:

Would like to get a better camera at some point, but I feel like i need to improve substantially to justify that investment.

Welcome to the thread! Feel free to post larger versions of the photos, no need to quote unless you're posting full-res. Also, add an empty space/line to separate photos from one another, it makes them much easier to look at!

 

[vern]

rotate 4 by Bodie, on Flickr

This one is fuckin awesome dude. Wish I had the first clue how to even go about doing something like that.

Finalists for the Astrophotographer of the year were released today, some incredible images in there - https://www.theguardian.com/science/...st-in-pictures

I did enter myself but unfortunately was not shortlisted (I found out months ago). I did chuckle this morning when a photo very similar to my own entry - which was taken from the same spot on the same night - was included though

Yours (and the other guy's) are both awesome. I take it there are tons of photogs out there shooting that location each night? It's a beautiful place.

 

[Lucky Forward]

WOW...beautiful

As a fellow Lee user, love these shots!!

Lee ftw. Those are great shots

Thanks, guys! I bought the Lee 6-stop filter and holder just before that trip, but now I definitely want to get the 10-stop Bigstopper sometime soon.

 

[supernormal]

From a shoot I did last weekend as Bday gift.

Bday-Stef5 by Samuel Vasquez, on Flickr

Bday-Stef by Samuel Vasquez, on Flickr

 

[Groof]

Not photography exactly, though you can see me in action shooting some photos... our first proper episode Crossing China, though still kind of a preview in many ways (because the trip changed majorly pretty quickly), is now up on YouTube. Would love if you guys could let me know your thoughts, and even subscribe if you like it and wanna see more. https://youtu.be/H_IYLBCe5Gg

Nice episode! I subscribed to see future stuff, but here are some thoughts on this one:
On the whole, it was a neat little episode, albeit a bit short which made parts of it feel really abrupt. You're zooming from place to place, which kind of takes away the "trip" part imho. Especially after the bit in the beginning with the old man going all no way when you tell him what your plan is.

Biggest thing for me was though that it was lacking a proper introduction. Not only about you and your travel mate, but what the whole deal is. Why are you doing this trip? Where exactly are you going, how and for what reason? Small details like that would make me as a viewer feel like a bigger part of the trip.

Other than that I'm really looking forward to what's to come! The mountain bit looks so beautiful.

rotate 4 by Bodie, on Flickr

Yo I'm not usually into this kind of stuff too much, but I really like this one. A bit of contrasting colour would've been cool to see!
I'm going to show this to a friend who's into this style to give him some inspiration.

 

[vern]

Nice episode! I subscribed to see future stuff, but here are some thoughts on this one:
On the whole, it was a neat little episode, albeit a bit short which made parts of it feel really abrupt. You're zooming from place to place, which kind of takes away the "trip" part imho. Especially after the bit in the beginning with the old man going all no way when you tell him what your plan is.

Biggest thing for me was though that it was lacking a proper introduction. Not only about you and your travel mate, but what the whole deal is. Why are you doing this trip? Where exactly are you going, how and for what reason? Small details like that would make me as a viewer feel like a bigger part of the trip.

Other than that I'm really looking forward to what's to come! The mountain bit looks so beautiful.

Thanks man, I appreciate the feedback. I answered most (if not all of this) in the filmmaking thread, your input is similar to what brer said over there. We did an intro thing prior to our journey, just us sitting there shooting from the hip. It's not great but we could probably integrate it into this episode or future stuff somehow to give more of a background on us and the trip, or we can record new stuff/voiceovers... who knows! Hopefully we can figure it out and make some compelling, or at the very least, fun videos.

 

[mooksoup]

Thanks man, I appreciate the feedback. I answered most (if not all of this) in the filmmaking thread, your input is similar to what brer said over there. We did an intro thing prior to our journey, just us sitting there shooting from the hip. It's not great but we could probably integrate it into this episode or future stuff somehow to give more of a background on us and the trip, or we can record new stuff/voiceovers... who knows! Hopefully we can figure it out and make some compelling, or at the very least, fun videos.

Ah cool, subscribed!
Yeah voice overs or something giving a bit of background on you guys and the trip might be good at helping people seeing your stuff for the first time.

 

[NysGAF]

I rented a 100mm 2.8L for my first foray into macro. It was fun.

Macro experimentations by Pieter, on Flickr

UC Riverside Botanical Gardens by Pieter, on Flickr

UC Riverside Botanical Gardens by Pieter, on Flickr

 

[EvB]

It's been a while

Here are a bunch

IMG_2981.jpg by Adam Fairclough, on Flickr

[/url]IMG_3756.jpg by Adam Fairclough, on Flickr[/IMG]

IMG_2784.jpg by Adam Fairclough, on Flickr

IMG_2716.jpg by Adam Fairclough, on Flickr

SAM_0683-Edit.jpg by Adam Fairclough, on Flickr

IMG_2555.jpg by Adam Fairclough, on Flickr

 

[JadedWriter]

Comment redacted cause it's wrong and unprofessional.
DSC_4216 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
DSC_4209 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
DSC_4229 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
Mother of fucking god I need to clean my sensor.

 

[mooksoup]

SAM_0683-Edit.jpg by Adam Fairclough, on Flickr

With the colours here are you doing all that in post? It looks similar to infrared film type stuff I've seen. It's pretty.

 

[theepicoftyler]

[/url]DSC_4229 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr

Straighten your horizon and you have a really good shot here!

 

[JadedWriter]

Straighten your horizon and you have a really good shot here!

I could've sworn I did. I guess the auto correction didn't get it right, either that or I just rushed it. I'll deal with it when I get home tonight. Thanks by the way.

 

[snaffles]

It sucks when your model looks like she got dragged behind a bus and opts to not shave her fucking armpit hair...

That is a really shit attitude to have.

 

[JadedWriter]

That is a really shit attitude to have.

It's not my fault that I at least expect a person to shave their pits and throw some make up on. Stuff like that really messes up the pictures. She has all these marks and cut on her back, arms look like a mess. There were actually loads of pictures I opted not to use just based on the condition of her skin and I'm not a pro grade retoucher as well. If you're going to agree to a shoot, try to be professional and look a certain way. I'm sorry if my tone was offensive to you, but try to be in my shoes please.

 

[snaffles]

It's not my fault that I at least expect a person to shave their pits and throw some make up on. Stuff like that really messes up the pictures. She has all these marks and cut on her back, arms look like a mess. There were actually loads of pictures I opted not to use just based on the condition of her skin and I'm not a pro grade retoucher as well. If you're going to agree to a shoot, try to be professional and look a certain way. I'm sorry if my tone was offensive to you, but try to be in my shoes please.

You should be focusing on the pose, composition, lighting etc. The persons physical attributes are irrelevant. If you want the models to exhibit professionalism you should try displaying some yourself. Trashing a model's appearance on a public forum is really poor form. It is your job to find the best angles and poses to shoot your client. The onus is on you to make them look good/interesting, not for them to make you look good. Any dumb fuck can take a photo of a pretty lady.

 

[JadedWriter]

You should be focusing on the pose, composition, lighting etc. The persons physical attributes are irrelevant. If you want the models to exhibit professionalism you should try displaying some yourself. Trashing a model's appearance on a public forum is really poor form. It is your job to find the best angles and poses to shoot your client. The onus is on you to make them look good/interesting, not for them to make you look good. Any dumb fuck can take a photo of a pretty lady.

That's why I opted to not shoot her from the back and tried not to shoot her arms too much, but at the same time I was trying not to chop off her arms, which is one of the biggest complaints people on here level at me. I should opt to not trash my models and in all honesty I usually don't. I guess I honestly just do not particularly like this person at all and it just showed through in my comment since a lot of my stuff is locked in her work office and no this is not my first time dealing with her, I really just don't like her because she never seems to respect me enough to not smoke near me, which I told her the first time I shot her that I don't like. It's what I get for wanting to do something cause I'm bored out of my mind. I apologize for my comment. And I thought on it for a few seconds and deleted the comment above that set of pictures. It's not really great to take frustrations out on said model publicly.

 

[Damaged]

Not been very active with the cameras this year but headed out to do a bit of Urbex in a decommissioned Asylum today. Most of the place had been trashed by neglect or the local kids but it was still fascinating to walk around

Edit-6404 by Robb Faloon, on Flickr

Edit-6400 by Robb Faloon, on Flickr

 

[Thug Waffle]

Newport Beach Lifeguard COLOR by instagram.com/thetmostk, on Flickr

Newport Beach Lifeguard BW by instagram.com/thetmostk, on Flickr

Mt. Selfie by instagram.com/thetmostk, on Flickr

Surf 1 by instagram.com/thetmostk, on Flickr

Surf 2 by instagram.com/thetmostk, on Flickr

 

[JadedWriter]

Newport Beach Lifeguard COLOR by instagram.com/thetmostk, on Flickr

Newport Beach Lifeguard BW by instagram.com/thetmostk, on Flickr

Mt. Selfie by instagram.com/thetmostk, on Flickr

Surf 1 by instagram.com/thetmostk, on Flickr

Surf 2 by instagram.com/thetmostk, on Flickr

I need to hit the beach at some point. I love the surfing shot.

 

[Thug Waffle]

I need to hit the beach at some point. I love the surfing shot.

haha thanks, man. i feel you. this was in newport beach, ca. definitely changed my mind about living on the beach - it's hella nice there.

 

[JadedWriter]

haha thanks, man. i feel you. this was in newport beach, ca. definitely changed my mind about living on the beach - it's hella nice there.

I live couple of subway stops away from a beach but never go there for pics. I'm afraid I'd A) look like a perv and B) get sand in my shit.

 

[Thug Waffle]

I live couple of subway stops away from a beach but never go there for pics. I'm afraid I'd A) look like a perv and B) get sand in my shit.

eh i just look at it as street photography at the beach. that's how i justify it to myself haha. if i get a cool picture of a surfer or something i'll usually offer to send it to them after i've edited it.

the sand thing is a bummer, but i'm pretty careful. and my gear isn't THAT nice anyway.

 

[JadedWriter]

eh i just look at it as street photography at the beach. that's how i justify it to myself haha. if i get a cool picture of a surfer or something i'll usually offer to send it to them after i've edited it.

the sand thing is a bummer, but i'm pretty careful. and my gear isn't THAT nice anyway.

I have too many decent enough Sigma lenses to risk it and I do use my gear for work purposes so I can't really risk it. If I had something weather sealed I'd care less and I'm not putting money towards any of the disposable kit lenses.

 

[Thug Waffle]

I have too many decent enough Sigma lenses to risk it and I do use my gear for work purposes so I can't really risk it. If I had something weather sealed I'd care less and I'm not putting money towards any of the disposable kit lenses.

could you build a second kit strictly for business purposes?

 

[JORMBO]

That's why I opted to not shoot her from the back and tried not to shoot her arms too much, but at the same time I was trying not to chop off her arms, which is one of the biggest complaints people on here level at me. I should opt to not trash my models and in all honesty I usually don't. I guess I honestly just do not particularly like this person at all and it just showed through in my comment since a lot of my stuff is locked in her work office and no this is not my first time dealing with her, I really just don't like her because she never seems to respect me enough to not smoke near me, which I told her the first time I shot her that I don't like. It's what I get for wanting to do something cause I'm bored out of my mind. I apologize for my comment. And I thought on it for a few seconds and deleted the comment above that set of pictures. It's not really great to take frustrations out on said model publicly.

Every once in awhile you will probably get a model you don't click with or care for much. Just do your best to get them a few good shots and then move on to the next shoot. Eventually when you aren't shooting as much to practice/learn you can just send these types of models your rates when they message you to shoot.