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Link to said porn?Mmm, shocking.
Flickr sucks. It's good for amateur porn and uploading photos for free, but actual photo networking passed that, to me, is quite dismal.
Link to said porn?Mmm, shocking.
Flickr sucks. It's good for amateur porn and uploading photos for free, but actual photo networking passed that, to me, is quite dismal.
On a whole I'd say the latter is true. However, if you spend a bit of a time seeking out the good stuff you can make some good contacts. I have some contacts that do amazing stuff and it's a good source of ideas and inspiration. A good way is to go through your contacts favourites and find other peoples streams and repeat that process. Good photographers like good photos.Mmm, shocking.
Flickr sucks. It's good for amateur porn and uploading photos for free, but actual photo networking passed that, to me, is quite dismal.
Completely agree. There are of course exceptions to the rule (check out a lot of Oliver's shots...he seems to love breaking that rule and does it quite well), but there are many times when the rule should be followed - for example the shot above. The dead space behind the rider isn't that exciting, and neither is the fact you can't see his face. Keep working on it dude.I'm not really an authority on sports photography (or any other type for that matter!) so I'll only make one general comment that I think it's a pretty good thing to consider when composing any shot. That is, when the subject has (and how best to word this) directionality - whether it be their movement or the way they are looking (human, animal) or even the way an inanimate object is facing (a car or building) it needs to be towards the unused space in the composition. In this case, we know he's riding right to left and so you tend to look at it that way and hence that big patch behind him is dead. As it is we follow him to the left and hit the edge of the frame abruptly. We want to see where the subject is looking/going etc.
Obviously tough when capturing fast moving things but at the end of the day will make it a good shot or a bad shot.
To me, that first one is just a dude riding on a rock. It has no feeling of action or anything to it. Doesn't really show or portray anything, which is kind of what downhill photos need. And it's sometimes hella hard. And the second one I don't really think looks very good at all either... and I'm especially confused when I compare them to the handful of photos I just looked at on the website in your signature, that are actually awesome? and remembering some of what you've posted in the past??Can I get some thoughts on these, please?
I'm not saying I could do better, but from what I'm seeing, this photo could be improved. As far as composition goes, this is pretty good however the lighting could be better. With a darker backgorund, slightly darker foreground and flash aimed more upwards to wards the rider, this pic would be awesome. Withought knowing what setting you are using, what I would do if I took a photo like that, I would reduce the flash power just sligtly or move it further away so it still freezes the rider, but isn't blindingly bright. I would also stop down my aperture a bit. Keep your shutter speed up to, again, freeze the rider, but with a smaller aperture, you can darken the background, get better colours and isolate the rider better.Devo about the helmet!
Feel like there is way to much ground on the bottom, its really distracting!Devo about the helmet!
There is so much you can do with layers and can many of the fundamentals can be applied to so many areas of photoographyCheers Sam, Yeah it's in PS. Using layer masks etc for the first time ever. I've got so much to learn
Love the smoke shots, 2&3 are sweet. Can I ask what settings you used? I actually tried the same shots last night myself and after looking at Tristan's shot on his website, I've binned mine. I suck haha
Cheers mate, yeh sure thing, I was running my flash at half power but zoomed right out at 28mm and was shooting at 50mm, 1/200th, f7.1, iso100
I'm sorry alec but I have to agree, I feel there is too much space at the bottom and needs more seperation from the background as the lighting seems a little too flat..Feel like there is way to much ground on the bottom, its really distracting!
were you shooting with an on camera flash? it looks very flat.Devo about the helmet!
Went back and found a better location for beach/sunset shots throw some thoughts at me, snobbies!