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A novice looking for tips, hints, suggestions and critique.
I've recently found myself attracted to photography has a hobby. I
started taking photos, and after I took around a thousand or so shots, I went through them all and picked which I thought were the nicest. You can see them he http://www.dragotaur.com/photography/ I'm looking for helpful suggestions that'll guide me towards improvement (as I know I have far to go, as is obvious when you look online on sites such as Flickr). My camera is a Kodak DX6490, cheap I know, but the only one I could afford. Thus far, I find it's lack of manual focus rather vexing. So, if you can make any suggestions, please do, I would appreciate it. |
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A novice looking for tips, hints, suggestions and critique.
Derek Fountain wrote:
wrote: I've recently found myself attracted to photography has a hobby. I started taking photos, and after I took around a thousand or so shots, I went through them all and picked which I thought were the nicest. You can see them he http://www.dragotaur.com/photography/ So, if you can make any suggestions, please do, I would appreciate it. My first and only tip so far: get rid of the flash based photo album. I'm not sure if it works with Firefox or not - I don't think it does, but it's so damn slow I couldn't be bothered to wait for it to finish sorting itself out. If you want your photographs to do the talking, let them. If you want to demonstrate your ability to choose a really crap way of displaying them, well, we're not interested. I am using Firefox and I could see and load the images fin. - NO PROBLEM - The responder above may have some "obstructions" running on his system that interfere with the display - spyware, etc. ============ Here are my thoughts (from a long time amateur) Hope they help. I like many of the images, without discussing technical issues, but I do find them cold and unemotional. They don't "talk to me". They don't engage the viewer. As snapshots or tourist photos they are fine. The one that came closest to piquing my interest was the street scene with the street light and a small part of someone's shoulder in the right foreground. If that shoulder had been a bit bigger - we wonder "who is this person" "what are they doing" "where are they going" - The converging lines of direction also "pull us in" and we see two people walking toward us. A few other things - in the photo of the bridge. There is a high contrast reflection in the water that pulls the viewer's eye to that spot, so that competes with the main point of interest that should be the bridge disappearing into the distance. Also, no photos taken out of airplane or car windows should be shown to other people (just my pet peeve) BTW - I like your cartooning. -- Seinfeld Lists http://tinyurl.com/f7k9d California Photos http://tinyurl.com/ann2l Sawyer's Nicknames http://tinyurl.com/gowma |
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A novice looking for tips, hints, suggestions and critique.
The responder above may have some "obstructions" running on his system
that interfere with the display - spyware, etc. I doubt it, I run Linux. |
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A novice looking for tips, hints, suggestions and critique.
Derek Fountain wrote:
The responder above may have some "obstructions" running on his system that interfere with the display - spyware, etc. I doubt it, I run Linux. FWIW, Firefox has trouble with it on my Linux box as well (same trouble it has with the Sony site near as I can tell) but Konqueror works fine. -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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A novice looking for tips, hints, suggestions and critique.
Some wonderful suggestions, thank you. You have a wonderful way of
viewing the photos, and I'll take that to heart. |
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A novice looking for tips, hints, suggestions and critique.
I understand your concern he but in the years I've used
SimpleViewer, I've never encountered a problem and you are the first voice of dissent towards the gallery I've seen. I DO have pure html versions up (you can add_html) to the index.html (index_html.html) to see it. I use FireFox myself, and it works fine. Tried it in IE6 and 7, as well as Maxthon, still fine. Is your Flash not out of date? As for your final line: "If you want to demonstrate your ability to choose a really crap way of displaying them, well, we're not interested. " I'm sure you don't speak for everyone here, when you say "we". ^^ |
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A novice looking for tips, hints, suggestions and critique.
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I've recently found myself attracted to photography has a hobby. I started taking photos, and after I took around a thousand or so shots, I went through them all and picked which I thought were the nicest. They look "oversharpened" or "Too digital"? It's like not enough contrast mixed with too much sharpening. Not sure what the -exact- problem is but it's too distracting to get past that part of the images to enjoy what might be there. Also the content isn't tight enough, you need to crop out the extraneous stuff to get the focus on the actual content. I like stuff shot tight. Just my opinion on what might improve your work. This "shooting loose" is a comon mistake. Here's an example of what I mean by shooting "tight". http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-1/937049/fly.jpg -- Stacey |
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A novice looking for tips, hints, suggestions and critique.
Stacey wrote:
wrote: I've recently found myself attracted to photography has a hobby. I started taking photos, and after I took around a thousand or so shots, I went through them all and picked which I thought were the nicest. They look "oversharpened" or "Too digital"? It's like not enough contrast mixed with too much sharpening. Not sure what the -exact- problem is but it's too distracting to get past that part of the images to enjoy what might be there. Also the content isn't tight enough, you need to crop out the extraneous stuff to get the focus on the actual content. I like stuff shot tight. Just my opinion on what might improve your work. This "shooting loose" is a comon mistake. Here's an example of what I mean by shooting "tight". http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-1/937049/fly.jpg I am curioius--was the fly purely fortuitious or were there large numbers of them out that day so that you knew that eventually one would light in your field of view or did you spend a great deal of effort stalking him? -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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