Punky's photography thread

Nice pictures overall I like the building shots with blue sky as a background.

In some photos I think you should pay more attention to your focus distance. For example, in the shots with the fisherman. Focusing on him would still leave room for a 2/3 dof behind, bringing the fisherman into focus while maintaining the buildings relatively sharp.

Yeah, when you focus 1/3 of the dof falls in front of the focus point and 2/3 behind it. So by focusing to what is called hyperfocal distance yields the largest area of dof in your pictures. But of course only the exact focus point can be tack sharp so it's not always that easy to decide where to focus.

take care for you Av Level. Some of the pictures are way overbrightened. Setting the Av Level half a step down or up depending on the fotos would help alot.

Another advice would be not to shoot into the sun as it will produce heavy lensflares - you can always use a lens-blend to reduce this but if you are going to do this more often you should take care of the daytime and the position you want to shoot.

The location is pretty nice btw. I've heard belgium is a paradise for industrial left-overs

LENS HOOD NOW

It will increase the contrast in your images by greatly reducing the amount of indirect light hitting your sensor from bounced light inside your lens.

Oh and I was going to say you should really edit your images in photoshop but then I re-read your post.

But here was a little something anyways. (hope you aren't offended that I did this, heh)

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Took like 3 minutes, so no excuses for time!

simply switch it off at the lens' feed.

try to take a tripod with you and shoot in P mode. Set the ISO Value as low as possible (100 i guess) and shoot with the tripod if the shuttertime is below 1/30 (because you will save yourself a lot of shots from being shaken then). Try to play with Av Values (or even make some shots with varying shutter time (blend stays the same!)) and choose RAW format (I guess the above shots are all JPEG).

Hey punky !

Shots are corrects though some photographs are blurred...

If you have photoshop, you can retouch some shots in order to improve contrasts, colors, and so on...

E.g. :

about dilapidated area, the B&W allows emphasis on the gloom. (sorry if is incorrect, I have a poor skill about English :/... but I'm learning ^^)

=> [Blocked Image: http://pix.nofrag.com/9/b/1/aaf7e760be99e47d365814529f955t.jpg]

(changes include contrasts, clearness & B&W)

Also you can bring a little fantasy on landscape shots, when those are not very clear.

On the shot with residences & river... buildings are blurred so, you can put them in darkness... Like this (the ambient is unreal but it's nice yet)

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(changes include contrasts, clearness & colors)

Or simply better contrasts & clearness than initial shot...

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I hope you dont think this looks good...

http://pix.nofrag.com/5/b/9/7dc41544fc5 ... 0b2a4.html

Quote from JeanPaul

I hope you dont think this looks good...http://pix.nofrag.com/5/b/9/7dc41544fc5 ... 0b2a4.html

I have to agree. Awful advise...

Satyre does have a poiunt though.. allthough the example may have been overdone a a little

When starting, learning the basics helps usually a lot. At the moment, I would say the best way to improve your work is to learn taking pictures with correct exposures and focus. PS doesn't compensate for taking bad pictures.

interesting pictures.. the basement / door entrance or whatever it is reminds me of Minotauros pictures posted for a long long time ago.

remember when he went down to that creepy hole basement with alot of computer and junk stuff.. uh ah yeah.

uhm.. some pictures u uploaded here could be better quality, other thenthat it's fine...

better! you dont happen to live near Steenwijk do you? anyways, try not to oversaturate the colors and it wouldnt mind to be more daring composition wise.

nice cock btw