Some pictures I took yesterday
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Topic: Some pictures I took yesterday
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Subject: Some pictures I took yesterday
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:24pm
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So I went downtown yesterday with our POS old digicam, and got lot's of pictures, unfortunately only these survived, as most of the floppies were corrupted. Well, only those, plus some pics of my GF, which are private. ;)
Click for full view @ DA http://www.deviantart.com/view/31041263/">  http://www.deviantart.com/view/31041091/"> http://www.deviantart.com/view/31040986/"> http://www.deviantart.com/view/31040886/"> http://www.deviantart.com/view/31040722/"> http://www.deviantart.com/view/31071002/">
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Posted By: The American
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:25pm
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What?
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Posted By: Jack Carver
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:25pm
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Floppies!?! You gotta be kiddin me bro.. Nice pictures though. I like the Tree Silhouette the best. |
Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:25pm
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The second is my favorite. ------------- 
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:29pm
Yeah, our very nice DSLR is being fixed in portland, our small digicam is in baja, So I was stuck with our old huge one. Seriously, one of the first wave of consumner digi-cams. |
Jack Carver wrote:Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:33pm
Anyway, that's nothing to be proud of. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:34pm
what? |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:35pm
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:35pm
Nono, he said floopies, not floppies. |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:35pm
| Yeah... And Like I said, that was a horrible pic, plus It was like 6-7 months old. |
Posted By: The American
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:42pm
So? I know some hot redheads. -------------
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:46pm
I am a hot redhead |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:47pm
You so sexy. |
Posted By: The American
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 4:52pm
Ya, thats why I said that. -------------
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 5:04pm
| Uno mas foto addicional. |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 7:25pm
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BTW, Benji - not shens, proof, hah.
EDIT: This poorly designed bump brought to you by: Attention whoring! I need real critiques. 
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Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 7:26pm
Because its the only balance one that shows texture and depth. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/DBibeau855/?chartstyle=myspacecolors"> 
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 7:27pm
Please elaborate on this, I need to improve my mad-skillz. |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 7:30pm
| Jones soda. |
Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 7:40pm
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The first picture, its just so generic, you could have done more with the ankle. Playing with structure can be really fun, you can have the most fun taking pictures studying the structure in a park or a big city.
The second picture, i love it, its a good angle, theres something for you in each area of the picture, the pipe draws the eyes from the bottom of the photo to the top showing off the dirtyness of the picture and the angle, really good shot. Third picture, just a tree. If you can, try and get a picture with a tree just in front of the sun, you get a really cool shot. Same for a lamp post or a basketball hoop. Another bloody tree. It would be a good study on texture if things didnt peter out toward the top. The forth picture. Great, i love black and white shots, good texture, but you shot straight at it, that gash is right smack in the center. A couple things, that gash serves as an ankor. and your subject is the entire photo, you arent doing anything with it. It would have been cool if you had your girlfriend in the picture leaning against the tree, you get a close up of the tree, the huge texture of the bark, then contrast it with the face of your girlfriend. Body parts are always neet. I love to photograph the human body, you can make it seem hard and brutish or soft and supple, even in the same photo. But this picture leaves me limp, its a bad angle and nothings happening but you two holding hands. Its PDA photo, a public display of affection. Wich i love, but you didnt show any of the passion or caring that is at the root of a PDA. If you wanted to photograph hands, wich are always fun, you can catch them working or just sitting, and they are almost always well lit. But this picture could have been better. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/DBibeau855/?chartstyle=myspacecolors">
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 7:46pm
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Thanks for the detailed critique. It's always nice to see something other than "d00d, thats kewl."
I'm going to work on what you've advised, you sure seem to know your photography. And the last photo was really just a memento photo anyway. 
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Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 7:49pm
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Man i love photography. And if you like texture, whats really cool is sometimes rust, but go to a construction sight and look for deep muddy tire ruts, if they are fresh and at the right time of day, take it black and white, it turns out really cool. Not just the normal, woo its texture, but there are shadows and whatnot. Its cool. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/DBibeau855/?chartstyle=myspacecolors">
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 7:52pm
| Nice, I am a bit photo obsessed, but I don't really have a source for education other than trial and error. My dad is a good photographer, but he isn't a very good teacher... |
Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 8:01pm
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Ask him to take you on a photo outing. Take notes on what he does and read up on photography. You would be surprised on what you learn, try and emulate what todays artists are doing. Pick up on things like style, asthetics and mechanics.
Develope your photo eye and just keep taking lots of picture. Experementation is the best thing for you. Play around and just have fun. Fine your rythem and style to it, theres a flow. I dont develope pictures or take them without music going. If im in a dark room i either have headphones on and im usualy kinda dancing, or im blaring music. I dont dance when i take the photos though. But just keep taking photos and search for your rythm. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/DBibeau855/?chartstyle=myspacecolors">
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 8:16pm
| Thanks for the advice. Really, the only reason I can use a camera at all is trying to emulate my dad. |
Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 8:19pm
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Dude! Go to like, borders, they have magazines totaly about photography. Right now, photography is changing, people like choop are starting to take over the scene, people pushing what we can do with pictures using digi photography and computers.
I like film more... But as long as your doing something cool and new, its all cool. See whats out there. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/DBibeau855/?chartstyle=myspacecolors">
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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 8:25pm
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When did everywon on this forum all get into grammer and spelling good Lord. ------------- 
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 8:26pm
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Yeah, the only photography mags near here are at the Library, and that's only "popular photography," which sucks.
And I love digital, if you couldn't tell. I enjoy tweaking the final product in PS. |
Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 8:28pm
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Got any photo shops? They are bound to have literature.
Yeah, photoshoping the photo can be fun. The stuff people are coming up with is really neat. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/DBibeau855/?chartstyle=myspacecolors">
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 8:31pm
| Unfortunately, no. This is a pretty small town. I'm just going to take as many pictures as I can. |
Posted By: Jack Carver
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 8:32pm
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Here's a pic I took, fooling around with long exposure and whatnot. What do you think?  |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 8:34pm
I like This part, just because of the color.
If you are going to experiment with long exposure, I'd reccomend something with mild movement, with a reference point that is stationary. IE; Clouds with a lamppost in the shot. |
Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 8:37pm
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Or try a bridge overlooking on coming cars. And stars. Long exposure with stars with a color camera is COOL. They arent just white, they are all different colors.
I like the star bursts. But its just a straight forward shot. There is a difference between a picture, snapshot, and a photograph. Thats a picture that you took on a long exposure. Play around with your subject, it wants its picture taken. Have fun with it. Its giving you the opourtunity. It has shapes, and textures, angles, right angles, large angles, an infinite number of angles of aproach. When your taking a photograph, its yours, you are esentialy creating a world inside your camera, everything is up to you, focus, depth, zoom, aperature, exposure, light. You can make your photo say whatever you what with just those things i listed. Use them to shape the world as you see it, and create something cool or beautiful. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/DBibeau855/?chartstyle=myspacecolors">
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 9:07pm
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How do you like the Canon PowerShot A520, jack carver? -------------
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Posted By: Jack Carver
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 9:19pm
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I am happy with it overall. It takes great outdoor pics on auto and has manual adjustments for practically everything if you want to experiment a bit more. It uses the flash a lot indoors, even when I think it's well lit, but if you force it off you need some steady hands. I always use all 4 MegaPixels, then pics look great when you size them down. 4X zoom is nice, umm... it feels solid, is a little bit of a battery hog, but you can get rechargables (AAs). Sure can't beat it for the price though! |
Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 9:28pm
Aren't you curious as to how I knew that, Paul? Hate to bust your alter-ego, whaaazup. -------------
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Posted By: Jack Carver
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 9:32pm
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Can't you get that from the pic-file also? I know when I upload stuff to Deviant-Art it tells me the camera make, model, Aperature settings, exposure time, etc. Haha, using my first name on the forum kinda creeps me out. Please refrain from doing that in the future.  |
Posted By: Cheetos3254
Date Posted: 29 March 2006 at 9:41pm
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2nd and 3rd are my favorites ------------- 
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