the cross processing doesn't really work here...but good attempt...

crop is a little tight on the bottom IMO

 

amen..

 

Happy Birthday DON!!!!!!!

 

happy birthday!

 

thanks guys

 

^^^Happy Birthday!

 

Happy B-day!


RHD R35

 

happy bday don.

 

Jeez, Jon, you really like to change your watermarks lol

 

Haha I think I'm done now.

 

change it again....its too big

 

bored at work.. only thing interesting to snap since the cute office receptionist is non compliant to my paparatziness

 

That's the point. I've had people crop out my watermark before and use my pic. So I'm making it a little harder to do. Besides, I keep all my originals and PSD files.

 

great colors and exposure...but i think the composition could use some work

the purple flowers are cut off on the left hand side, which kind of bothers me...

 

Got another one that I edited to change the focal point of the pic (the car) to a non centered position




Any good? PB killed a lot of quality I noticed

 

haha I noticed that at the beginning of the thread there was a strong opinion against editing and photoshopping photos by a majority of posters, now I see everyone editing their photos. thought that was funny.

anyhow I suppose it was with good intentions to post non edited photos. But from all sincerity from what Ive seen every pro photographer edits and post processes photos. IMO you have to PP your work to keep up and stand out from the many other photos out there, you can only get so far with straight jpeg, but the ones that makes you stand out are the ones that are processed.

 

if you're gonna crop may wanna crop to standard sizes as a habit. Just in case you want to ever make prints. Though it may not be the case, me personally when I see non standard crops I assume the photographer lacked the ability to compose the shot from the camera, which in turn presumes composition was an afterthought before pressing the shutter. But again I know that this is not always the case.

but thats just my opinion, take it with a grain of salt.

Sorry non standard crops are just a pet peeve of mine.

 

You're actually right, I am a terrible photographer and the shot was taken with the car right in the middle of the screen, so I had to crop it to where it's at.

But thanks though, I will keep all of the information i've gathered here in my head when taking new pics.

 

i was thinking the same thing.. and they are pretty close to the center of the horizontal thirds which i try to avoid.. i like that i can catch what im doing wrong.. j

 

cant tell if you are being sarcastic or not haha
I dont think its a terrible photo at all, you sky isn't blown out and has color so you obviously did something right.

if you aren't being sarcastic then heres something you may want to keep in mind.
this is what I usually tell someone that asks me about composition.

think of your viewfinder as a blank canvas, as the photographer you are the painter of sorts. Its up to you to place objects in the view finder aka canvas in a well balanced and composed manner so the end result is the vision you had in mind before creating the painting. Your paint brush is your focal length and your legs to get the right angles

so its very important to pay attention to everything in the viewfinder, especially stuff in the background. You dont want trees growing out of peoples heads or branches decapitating your subject. This I see people do all the time, which is the basic basic fundamentals of composition.