The Photo Snob Thread

WolfCreekPsycho

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CraigS said:
Nice shots Ben, the first two seem a little soft to me though. I do like the last on although (it might just be me) the horizon doesn't look straight.
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Thanks mate... its weird with the horizon in that shot. The land mass to the left is a bay that runs away from the camera so is not a horizontal horizon... The leaning pier in the foreground accentuates it and certainly makes it look not straight. But when I realigned this pic, I used the masts on all the boats and Syd tower on far right as vertical indicators... thats not to say I got it perfect:)
 
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Craig! That's awesome! Link to your flickr?


Sooo, I got a new watch and decided to use a t-shirt as a lightbox (softbox? I'm not quite sure).
The bottom left seems pretty out of place but I didn't really plan how I wanted the photo to be and needed a space filler... :)

Thoughts? On the photo or the watch, I don't mind. ;)

 
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Alec McJo said:
I saw that pop up on Flickr, I absolutely love it :biggrin:
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24alpha said:
Craig.....Wow! Well done mate.
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TWChikn said:
Craig! That's awesome! Link to your flickr?
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Cheers guys, she's a great girl to work with a has beautiful eyes, that I do my best to highlight in the pic's. I've shot with her twice now and looking forward to shooting with her again soon. Getting heaps of shoots now too which will help me get more practice, just wish I had some money to buy some better lighting :(

Here's a link to my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55142472@N05/
 
wombat

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CraigS said:
Cheers guys, she's a great girl to work with a has beautiful eyes, that I do my best to highlight in the pic's. I've shot with her twice now and looking forward to shooting with her again soon. Getting heaps of shoots now too which will help me get more practice, just wish I had some money to buy some better lighting :(
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Maybe I'm alone here, but I can't help but feel that maybe the smoothing is a little too much in the pic you posted, Craig.
I know that you're going for that sort of flawless, glamour look, but in the shot you posted, the tip of her nose has started to look quite flat (and it makes her whole nose seem a bit too big), and there seems to be a lack of depth around her lips.

This one on the otherhand I think looks heaps better:

Laura by Craig Schulstad, on Flickr

Her skin looks smooth and soft, but not overdone. I guess the yardstick I like to think of is "could that just be good makeup, or perfect skin?"; if the answer is "no, it had to be smoothed", then IMO it's probably too strong. Like in one of the red dress shots, there's no creases in the skin around her knuckles, just kinda makes her look plasticy.

I actually really like that pool shot overall. I'm sure some people would be critical of the shadow/highlight on her right cheek, but I don't think it really detracts from the image at all, it just adds some of that lovely realism from natural light. The processing is nice, and the model looks more comfortable in that one to me too.
That's my pick anyway.
 
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wombat said:
Maybe I'm alone here, but I can't help but feel that maybe the smoothing is a little too much in the pic you posted, Craig.
I know that you're going for that sort of flawless, glamour look, but in the shot you posted, the tip of her nose has started to look quite flat (and it makes her whole nose seem a bit too big), and there seems to be a lack of depth around her lips.

This one on the otherhand I think looks heaps better:

Laura by Craig Schulstad, on Flickr

Her skin looks smooth and soft, but not overdone. I guess the yardstick I like to think of is "could that just be good makeup, or perfect skin?"; if the answer is "no, it had to be smoothed", then IMO it's probably too strong. Like in one of the red dress shots, there's no creases in the skin around her knuckles, just kinda makes her look plasticy.

I actually really like that pool shot overall. I'm sure some people would be critical of the shadow/highlight on her right cheek, but I don't think it really detracts from the image at all, it just adds some of that lovely realism from natural light. The processing is nice, and the model looks more comfortable in that one to me too.
That's my pick anyway.
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I'll agree the one in the red dress is overdone, I'm actually working on it again right now, unfortunately her hand loses some skin detail through the flash too, not just re touching as the soft box was only about 2ft from her and she is quite pale skinned. The makeup on her face absorbs the flash unlike the bare skin which reflected alot of the light. There so much to learn when doing this stuff.
I personally like the one I posted up earlier, unfortunately Laura doesn't have a thin nose but I certainly don't feel the editing makes it look flat in that image. When I edit the skin, I actually don't paint over the tip or under the nose as you lose depth from any shadows so I'm not sure if it's the editing that make her nose look flat. I've still got so much to learn though and it's great to get peoples feedback on things to watch out for.
Cheers
 
wombat

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Cool man. I think skin smoothing is one of those things that's always going to be a bit of a viewer-dependent thing anyway; I just really liked the shot in the pool. :p
 
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I'm shooting a young jazz/pops/blues band this weekend. Profile shoot, not during a gig.

6 kids (teens, 13-15) and an adult.

Any tips?


Actually, while I'm here. I was taking some shots in the state library today and a security guard approached me and asked me to stop shooting and requested to see my shots. I conceded because I wasn't sure whether it was classified as public or not.
Would I hae been within my rights to refuse to stop shooting? I think I'm fairly safe to assume I could refuse to show him my shots yeah?
 
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Tristan23

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Call me cynical, but holy shit Model Mayhem is almost as terrible as Flickr.

I'm looking to shoot more humans, as opposed to bikes or cars or waves, and happened to find myself clicking more and more links until I found myself looking at images I most likely shouldn't have been, but it's not the only the photos that are cringeworthy - it's the fact that just like Flickr, no matter how terrible the photos are (I won't link you, but imagine wayyy over-processed HDR, point-and-shoot, out of focus, terribly lit, over-sharpened photos of an overweight, ugly, middle-aged, inexperienced mother of three revealing her terribly ugly snatch in full gaping view to the camera, and you'll almost be there), the comments are retarded. "Great shot!", "Hot!", "Beautiful pose and perfect breast just like they should be!" kind of shit. It's ludicrous and I don't understand.

I wouldn't hesitate to say a large portion of people only make profiles to get off in a more acceptable manner than watching porn, or to make themselves feel young and sexy again by posting grossly nude photos on a 'modelling' website. Like Flickr, i'm sure it's a great resource if you can find the talent, but otherwise I think it's another useless waste of bandwidth.

I think i'll go to a modelling agency instead.

Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention the photographers who genuinely believe they are the closest relation to Jesus with a camera...Ahemm. His blurb reads "dickhead" and his photos represent nothing of what he says about himself. "Photographic artist"?! Nope, you're a dude with an SLR and a skin-smoothing technique. Perhaps i'm just in an angry mood, but it's people like this who make the internet shit.
 
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TWChikn said:
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Actually, while I'm here. I was taking some shots in the state library today and a security guard approached me and asked me to stop shooting and requested to see my shots. I conceded because I wasn't sure whether it was classified as public or not.
Would I hae been within my rights to refuse to stop shooting? I think I'm fairly safe to assume I could refuse to show him my shots yeah?
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State library isn't 'public'. A library is a sanctuary, a place where people go study, read, research, work and learn. If you want to shoot the collection or the architechture or whatever, then get permission.
 
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I'll agree with you on your thoughts of MM Tristan. I've only been on there for about a month and have seen some absolute horror images that people comment highly on, I don't get it.
Now I'm far from a professional photographer but I do believe I have some standards and morals and alot (most) of what I've seen on there surpasses all of those and not in a good way.
I personally joined to find some photogenic models to work with to help me build my portfolio and eventually start making some money out of my passion for photography.
I guess there's good and bad with everything but unfortunately the bad usually outweighs the good thanks to this wonderful little tool they call the internet.
 
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TWChikn said:
Actually, while I'm here. I was taking some shots in the state library today and a security guard approached me and asked me to stop shooting and requested to see my shots. I conceded because I wasn't sure whether it was classified as public or not.
Would I hae been within my rights to refuse to stop shooting? I think I'm fairly safe to assume I could refuse to show him my shots yeah?
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http://4020.net/words/photorights.php
Great read, also has a link near the bottom to a 2 pager that you can print out and take with you when people come up to abuse you for taking their photo.
 
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Model Mayhem is awful, if it's not for the problems Tristan listed, then it's just females looking for freebie photos with the "TFCD/TFP" and etc excuse.
 
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Need a lot of help here guys. Basically, my 7D is now rendered close to useless and I have an underwater housing which can't seem to go underwater effectively. I bought an ikelite housing from ebay about 4 months ago. It was an impulse buy. I went and inspected it, checked warranty cards and stuff were there and bought the thing. I was hesitant for a long while to use it because of putting my camera under water is not the easiest thing to mentally agree to. Tested it in the bath to start with. Tick and it's fine. The pool... did alright. Today I used it for the first time for a shoot. It leaked a lot. pulling the camera out of the housing it is wet all around, lens included. I can't pinpoint where the leak is either.

On the 7D none of the buttons will not actuate it's function (photo review etc). Light metering seems pretty FUBARed and it seems to still think it can shoot at 1/200 f8 with a lens cap on.

The situation i was taking photos of was in a pool, the camera did not get submerged under 3 metres (the housing is rated to 60 metres).

My plan of attack at the moment is to air out the camera by opening all possible entries... (flash, card, battery, lens) and then installing a firmware update. I plan on ringing ikelite, complaining and seeing if they can come to the table. I know i have warranty left on my 7D still (3 years extended) but don't know if they will help under the water damage situation.

Help?!
 
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