ok thanks. I didn't do any cropping in PP. Those are straight from the camera. Don did mention my horizon was a tad crooked.

 

dons more strict on composing shots from what Ive seen here. Horizon lines seem to be one of the things he's really tough on.

Im a bit lax on it. Unless there's something that really stands out I wont bother mentioning it.
I understand the rules, however I never follow them strictly at all. Maybe the first month I had the camera. After that I just compose the shots the way I like. When I look at a photo I just think either the comp works or it doesnt.

cheers

 

^^ Any tips on the two photos I just posted?

 

gotcha.

So who's up for buying a Holga and starting a project for it?

 

i'm strict on it if a crooked horizon line doesn't work and is distracting

and as far as the skin tone goes in the guiness photo, it looks fine to me

 

imo skin tone is a trickey aspect when working with saturated colors. Don likes it, id say add a bit of yellow to the shot or slight desaturation would make it even better but thats just my opinion. what it comes down to is if you like it, it doesnt matter what my opinion is. Its your artistic interpretation.

I like the vignette you have going and the color pop your photos have. possibly in the second photo make the edges a bit more subtle and the vignette a bit rounder.

custom PP vignette seems to be a trade secret amongst photographers haha, they dont tend to want to share their settings for that kind of stuff or explain the process. When I add vignette I add a very very subtle amount where none of it is black but just adds enough of an accent to give the pic a slightly glossy surface look akin to looking at a photo on a desk or something along with adding some depth and enhancing the subject. Its very subtle. but my vignettes are always round and its a custom one that has to be created by the user, not a standard PS filter.

in the PP example I posted on the last page you'll see it.

cheers

 

^^ I normally don't use any vignette but for some reason at the time when I was playing with that photo, I decided to add it. I'll try out some different settings for when I do my vignette on my next photo

I guess I'll play around with the skin color some more and try and see what I can do with it.

I wish I had more photo subjects to play with but I'm limited to my dorm with out a car haha

Don - Any tips on how I can improve my shots? I'm open to some constructive criticism

 

here are some pics i took today..never have time to play with the camera so i dont have too much practice. especially shooting in the dark or at night..

 

so i finally got up this morning, got to the beach...overcast as a mother and couldnt see a damn thing in the sky....just my luck

 

Overcast + Beaches FTW

 

all i have to do to get vignette is shoot at 24mm at f4 and i automatically get it. ha ha The 5d's full frame sensor has a bit of light fall off creating vignetting if u shoot wide open at wide angles.

 

look at the white balance of the whole image...some skin tons tend to be more yellow than you'd think...

and vignetting is no where near a secret....

 

well it was overcast alllll the way down to the water...i got there 20 min before it would rise and stayed 20 min after and there was nothing

 

Kozmo (btw, my African Grey's name is Cosmo)...I like this shot:



I just wish it was centered. Also, get a Flickr account. Photobucket jacks the quality.

 

centered and vertical woulda done great for that photo

 

x2 on flickr.

most are a touch out of focus as well.

 

x2 on Don's imput, exactly what i was thinking...and x3 on flickr

 

haha full frame ftw.

us lowly 1.6 cropped sensors have to make fake ones

I do get very slight vignette if I shoot wide 18mm and only in certain lighting conditions. Its rare though.

 

i can get it period. The end of the vignette is kinda bad cause it has aberration.

 

on a 1.6x crop, you should never get vignetting unless you're using a bunch of filters on an EF-S lens...