It's definitely an improvement over your previous animations. It's got a very 'Halo 2' feel. The left hand looks a bit off the way the fingers barely move. I don't know about you but I don't keep my fingers stiff under many circumstances, especially not when reloading a gun.Originally Posted by FlamingRain
Last edited by Pooky; August 11th, 2008 at 01:44 AM.
I don't remember if I told you when you showed me before, but I agree that the fingers caught my eye in addition to the other things I said. The only way I can explain it is that they're sticking out like a sore thumb LOLBADJOKE
Why the hell do things always look better in photos than in real life?I can take pretty picturez? take 2!
edit: fack, imageshack resized them. oh well.
Nice stuff, I really like the closeup of the rock, looks like a photo of a cliff taken with a selective focus lens. The bee photo seems a bit underexposed, but it's pretty sharp which is awesome. The background is somewhat distracting as the depth of field, although low, could be lower, but I guess, seeing as you're shooting with a compact powershot, there are limitations to that. Could be further enhanced with some photoshop lens blur maybe. Also, next time you scale a photo down, use bicubic sharper interpolation as it wont give you blurred details.
Also, when shooting with bright backlighting like that, try metering with the centre-weigted meter or even the spot meter, instead of the default matrix.
Here's what it should look like properly exposed (also added a tad bit of sharpening). It got a bit noisier due to pushing the exposure.
Not a big fan of it. Dragging up the contrast of a photo to make the colours all 'pretty' does not equal a good photo. The subject of your photo (the dumpster) is potentially interesting, but the way you composed it seems as if you just walked up, took a shot and waked away. What you did with the contrast completely blew out the highlight detail on the lid of the dumpster. To be honest, if you're going for the high contrast look, chances are it'll probably look better in black and white.
Another tip is to shoot the details, instead of the whole scene. A dumpster like that is covered in interesting textures of paint and rust with graffiti on top, try taking close ups of these that suggest a dumpster, but not actually show it. You could even include a bit of the background to show some context.
At the very least, unless intended, keep keep horizontal lines horizontal, the top of the dum
Last edited by Reaper Man; August 11th, 2008 at 06:24 AM.
Thanks for the tips reaper man, also I would have taken more pictures of it, but i took it out of the car window as we were pulling out of a gas station. It was just something that caught my eye so I snapped it.
I know the contrast kinda of ruined the lid of the dumpster but the photo was pretty boring before I edited it. BUt thanks for the advice I'll keep it in mind next time i take pretty pictures.
Yeah, the bee one was kind of rushed because I didn't want to fumble around changing settings/exposure lest the thing fly away. The picture you see is actually edited in PS already because the exposure was quite low. I'll try the PS lense blur, good idea. Also imageshack resized it for me, bastards :shakefist:
Thanks for the tips Reaper <3
edit: I could always find some sort of lens to decrease the DOF. I don't know much about lenses at all, all I know is my camera can use:
"separately sold Wide Converter WC-DC52, Tele-converter TC-DC52A and Close-up Lense 250D (52mm). In order to attach these lenses, you also need to use the separately sold Conversion Lens Adaptor LA-DC52G"
Atleast I have a mini-tripod
Last edited by Con; August 11th, 2008 at 11:48 AM.
I guess the close up lens or the tele-converter would do it, but I really wouldn't bother with conversion lenses right now to be honest. Plus they're usually a rip-off.
Also, corndog, I don't think I've seen any other photos you've taken. Got any you'd wanna post? I'm curious.
Last edited by Reaper Man; August 11th, 2008 at 12:27 PM.
Well I've only recently started trying to do "photography" so I dont have many, and I dont have a fancy camera or anything, but I'll upload some stuff that I just took in the smoky mountains.
E: gotta go, I'll post the pics later.
E2: K, here they are.
The dumpster original:
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/100_0182.jpg
Edited:
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/Dumpster.jpg
Trail original:
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/000_0270.jpg
Edited:
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...ail_edited.jpg
waterfall thing:
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/000_0263.jpg
Other stuff:
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/101_0135.jpg
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/100_0173.jpg
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/000_0275.jpg
Yea, thats pretty much all I have.
Last edited by Corndogman; August 11th, 2008 at 07:14 PM.
This whole "fancy camera" thing is a misconception. You don't need a fancy camera to take good photos. A fancy camera, like, say an SLR allows you to be more creative because of technical freedom, as well as producing higher quality images.
Check this guy out, these were taken with a cameraphone. Sure he'll never get good prints from them, but they sure look great online. http://flickr.com/photos/davidhelan/sets/1304592/
Your photos aren't bad, I like the waterfall one and the one of the wood beam.
Last edited by Reaper Man; August 12th, 2008 at 12:28 AM.
Those two are my favourites, especially the first one.
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