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DvS' photothread

  • DvS
  • March 11, 2009 at 6:27 PM
  • DvS
    • March 11, 2009 at 6:27 PM
    • #1

    Pretty recently I got to try out my dad's Nikon D200 and have been experimenting with it.

    Still learning how to use most of the features on it, so any criticism is welcome

    [Blocked Image: http://s5.tinypic.com/2ni8fte.jpg]

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  • JeanPaul
    • March 11, 2009 at 7:35 PM
    • #2

    Not bad, I like that last one, its pretty cool

    You suffer from boring subject matter though, none of the images are really all that interesting to look at. They are dull and dont contain any eye catching subject matter. Remember its better to have 2 great images than 12 okay ones. You also need some more post processing work, son! I can give you an example of what I mean:

    This one: (its a little green, and needs more contrast)

    [Blocked Image: http://i42.tinypic.com/10s63go.jpg]

    I edited into this: (yes I may have gone overboard)

    [Blocked Image: http://s5.tinypic.com/op61xg.jpg]

    Either way, its a lot more interesting of an image to look at as I pulled out some of the reflections and added more a more dynamic tonal range. I hope you dont view me editing it as me stepping on your toes, I only want to help. An example of making this more interesting would be to have like a person hold the ball next to a window with some light going through it or something along those lines. But just having it be the ball and nothing more (unless its some really fucking good/cool reflections) isnt all that interesting and in this day in age (with the internet and flickr) images like this are becoming more and more common and you are constantly needing better ideas and execution of those ideas to make images stand out from the muddled crap that is common person photography/point and shoot grotesquery. "common person" meaning just people who take images to take them and dont care about how it turns out or if its a good piece of artwork (ie facebook images)

    But after seeing these images, I say you need more interesting things to photograph, Shoot people, architecture, events, or just things you find compositionally pleasing. With that said, your images (with exception to the last one) need a way better composition, non of them really capture the eye and drag it along other parts of the images.

  • DvS
    • March 11, 2009 at 8:35 PM
    • #3

    Thanks for the cc dude. I agree with what you said and I debated for a while whether or not to post some of the worse images of the set, but I figured I could get more crits on those regarding shooting options like f/stops and ISO speed.

    The last image was shot in a session along with about 1,3GB of photos and was the only one I even converted from RAW off the camera.

    I'll keep that shit in mind.

  • DvS
    • March 12, 2009 at 3:17 AM
    • #4

    [Blocked Image: http://i40.tinypic.com/fog1lf.jpg]

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  • Grinwhrl
    • March 12, 2009 at 6:14 AM
    • #5

    Your new shots are very creative, nice stuff.

  • Jenn0_Bing
    • March 12, 2009 at 11:29 AM
    • #6

    I really like the first black and white one. Some of the others are a bit visually confusing, cant really tell whats going on.

  • DvS
    • March 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM
    • #7

    Thank you

  • 2d-chris
    • March 13, 2009 at 9:03 AM
    • #8

    Can I get this in 1920 res? would make a sweet desktop

    [Blocked Image: http://i39.tinypic.com/dom8hw.jpg]

  • DvS
    • March 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM
    • #9
    Quote from 2d-chris

    Can I get this in 1920 res? would make a sweet desktop

    Here you go

    EDIT: Gah, tinypic resizes shots this big, hang on...

    http://%7boption%7d

  • JeanPaul
    • March 13, 2009 at 6:16 PM
    • #10

    I dont know if you are or not, but sharpening is almost a requirement, but dont go overboard

    That last one is nice.

  • DvS
    • March 13, 2009 at 6:33 PM
    • #11
    Quote from JeanPaul

    I dont know if you are or not, but sharpening is almost a requirement, but dont go overboard That last one is nice.

    I usually just leave the sharpening up to the RAW conversion tool in CS4, usually the best setting is the default one.

    Thanks

  • DvS
    • March 13, 2009 at 11:21 PM
    • #12

    [Blocked Image: http://i40.tinypic.com/2hrfr0i.jpg]

    [Blocked Image: http://i39.tinypic.com/29fwh9j.jpg]

    For that last one, I wanted to use a cage with only spokes, and no decoration as that would have reduced the clutter, but I couldn't really find one.

  • Satyre
    • March 15, 2009 at 5:32 PM
    • #13

    That's pretty original! I love the B&W one with the bowl.

  • 2d-chris
    • March 15, 2009 at 5:52 PM
    • #14

    yay thx m8

  • DvS
    • March 15, 2009 at 7:22 PM
    • #15

    Thanks for the kind words

    Here are some more: (not sure I like the mapcore image attachment thing, do comment on which you prefer)

  • JeanPaul
    • March 15, 2009 at 8:39 PM
    • #16

    download/file.php?id=664&t=1

    much better

  • DvS
    • March 17, 2009 at 1:12 AM
    • #17
    Quote from JeanPaul

    http://forums.mapcore.net/download/file.php?id=664&t=1much better

    Thanks

    Here's a new one that I just did, my first HDR work though it may not look like HDR. Used photoshop to merge the images and did some corrections to the curves when transforming from 32bit -> 16bit.

  • DvS
    • March 17, 2009 at 7:48 PM
    • #18

    Moar, excuse the spam.

  • Grinwhrl
    • March 17, 2009 at 11:49 PM
    • #19

    nice stuff DvS. Great detail in the flower and the water you have captured in the apple shots.

  • DvS
    • March 19, 2009 at 2:37 AM
    • #20
    Quote from Dark

    nice stuff DvS. Great detail in the flower and the water you have captured in the apple shots.

    Thanks dude

    Here's one I just took of my Gibson LP Special:

    [Blocked Image: http://i40.tinypic.com/2mot8w0.jpg]

    Ignore the stupid compression artifacts

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