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So I have gotten into photography recently, as some of you might know.
I'm a beginner, so any critique would be great! I'll go ahead and upload a few of my works, and keep this updated if people have any interest. I'm not that big on photoshop, so most of the photos you will see will come right out of the camera, or have minor color correction. Enjoy! Perhaps it's corny to name my pictures, but I am doing so anyway: End of Winter: ![]() End of Winter 2: ![]() Isolated Individuality: ![]() First of Spring: ![]() Waiting to Bloom: ![]() |
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Oh my, This is brilliant
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Gorgeous pics Xiv. Isolated Individuality is my favourite. |
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Lmfao
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But I got to say, these are hella impressive. Might use these for my desktop. Good job! |
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How did you get the Individuality one?
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Sorry Xiv. ha.
It's hard to come with tips because I really don't have anything wrong to say. The compositions are very nice and you use light very effectively. The contrasts work well but on First of Spring, the colours are a bit oversatured for me - that's more a personnal preference because I like to keep earthy tones when photographing nature. I'm interested to see what you can do with wider shots. ;) |
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Ok. Isolated Individuality is a brilliant and stunning picture, props to you. Love the shots, waiting for something focusing more on composition
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yoooo this is ballin
and the subject matter of the stems makes for great diagonals so they're solid composition-wise KEEP IT UP~ |
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Isolated Individuality is by far the strongest photo of the bunch here IMO. The composition and texture created by the cluster of flakes is really awesome to look at.
The only thing I might change is boosting some of the levels of highlights in the isolated flake, more clarity, and perhaps playing with Shadows/Highlights palette and masking it just to the snowflake (just so the contrast between the bunch of flakes and the isolated one is even more strong). |
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surreal sir, great work :D
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These are incredivle xiv, I like End of Vinter the vest.
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XivHD
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I went to the zoo today. I'll upload 'em as I go. I love big cats :)
Edit: I'm really happy how this one turned out haha. Heart of the Beast: ![]() |
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Her Sight:
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Why would you post that bird in black and white man? Peacocks have so much color you should show it in color!
Also, the tiger has a cool pose and composition is good but the resolution of the photo is pretty poor. :( |
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Below is what it would look like in color. Color correction is still a bit off, but I dunno I feel like I get a lot more without color. Quote:
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these are really fuckin sweet
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Got another one for ya.
Oh How The Past... ![]() |
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these are pretty sweet xiv
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Lmfao, perfect gif
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Just a few more of some graduation parties... here are my favorites...
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Wow Xiv, these are great. My favorites are the close up ones, especially the snow, ice, and water shots. Would love to see more like them.
So just wondering, is it gonna like become a thing, which letter shall we end Xid's name with? No seriously, sorry Xix. I love your photos. |
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gj Xir
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Yeah, awesome Xib!
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Here is another:
Up There: ![]() |
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haha thanks. I feel like for that one I am in 'Bugs Life' or something. I guess that was the inspiration?
(Whats this? I have inspiration for shots now?) |
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I'm on Vacation right now in Pinecrest, California. Snapped a cool pick of my two friends Hannah and Connor when they were not looking. I liked how this one turned out.
That Moment ![]() |
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In that one of the dandelion, you have the perfect perspective. You make that dandelion look huge. Also, I never realized how much dead dandelion fluff looks like spiders webs.
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dam ziz that ones nice
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Got a few more of my favorties:
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damn \iz you're pretty good at getting the camera out at the right time.
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The only thing I want to point out : pay attention to the overall sharpness you want to give to your subjects in post-production.
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Other than that, you really have a good diversity in your pictures. Colours always strike the eye too. |
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To heal your picture, you could do this : ![]() Make a radial filter and reduce the amount of noise (or make a layer mask if you're working on Photoshop). Reducing the clarity and/or sharpness can help too. Here's the before and after comparison : ![]() And the final result : I don't like to work with works of others but I figure it could help. ;) |
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^ Holy shit dude thanks a bunch. And yeah, it is actually a lower rez file that I did just for FFR, I can link you to a higher one if interested, but the same issue occurs. It will just make post easier.
I can't thank you enough for your advice. I'll take this to heart. |
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You're welcome. :)
Sure, you can link me the full resolution shot. (could make a damn good background if you ask me ;)) Another question : do you shot in RAW or in JPEG ? |
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Here is the full rez shot:
And lol you are the 4th person to say it would make a great background :3 I'm so honored!! EDIT: Now that I look at it, yeah you are right haha. I see what you mean now. |
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Same modifications applied :
Note that I removed the small piece of grass at the bottom. ^^ |
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So sexy :) One day I'll learn haha. Thanks for your help man
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Damn that snowflake looks so perfect. Not sure I have really seen one before in person. P.S. Photoshop tips ftw.
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Got another for ya.
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Good work on making those textures much cleaner noname, looks good 8-)
Great stuff Xiz, you're definitely getting some solid stuff, keep doing what you're doing. Be as self critical as you can, especially to the more subtle qualities like noname has pointed out; definition of the finer details, perspective and whatnot, and colour correction. Though I must say for the most part it seems like you're keeping attention to these things, and it shows~ Have you done high pass sharperning before? I use it the most frequent out of other sharpening techniques. After flattening your image, duplicate the layer, Filter> other> highpass filter: drag the slider to JUST when you can see likeable details be brought out, not until you see haloing. Set the highpass'd layer blending mode to either Soft Light or Overlay. Overlay is much harsher, and sometimes I just reduce the opacity of the layer aswell. |
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I shot this tonight:
Father & Son ![]() Edit: I look at this now and see how much grain there is... this is my first attempt at this... I'll keep trying lmfao |
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For a first attempt I say you did a damn good job. Nice job man :)
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Should I boost some things, change some things... I dunno haha |
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from a completely uneducated perspective, the edges on the silhouettes should be more refined
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everywhere. Also why do you keep changing the type face lol the serif one looked fine imo good job though. As a city kid I'm still surprised there are places where you can see that many stars. It isn't shopped right? |
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Got one more for ya. This was taken about an hour outside of Denver.
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I'd say your shutter speed might be hanging out a tad too long, judging by some of the subtle motion blur happening in some of the stars. What did your originals look like before post processing? If you can get something slightly underexposed from what you have there, I don't see how you might run into problems boosting the stars later on, while leaving the blacks as they are. For star photos this is over exposed.
Another thing you could try playing with is short bursts of exposures, and merging them with this tool: http://russellbrown.com/scripts.html (search "Stack-o-matic" on the site). But that's something else to play with eventually. It's what people use for merging water movement exposures to give it that foggy long exposed look. The first photo is closer to the ideal exposure IMO but perhaps still a bit high. What aperture, f/8? f/16? I'd probably have had one shot at infinity at as low f/# as you could manage it with details ideally seen (anything to get the exposure faster), and another one for the subjects to be in focus, and merging them of course. All in all you did pretty good though, wherever you are that sky is wickedly clear, jealous. I think you said it was a 24mm lens on facebook, that being said I think you did well with keeping the shake and star trails minimal~ EDIT: Oh yeah another big thing is to play with the colour luminosities and shit in Camera Raw if you have a shot like that last one which is particularly bright, without reducing star sharpness. This is just roughly done from the image you posted, done firstly by making a levels, curves, and Black & White layer. The black and white layer was done by finding what ideal contrast level looked good, then seeing what blending mode looked good with the adjustment layer, which ended up being Linear Dodge. That's pretty weird shit but it's just something I happened to stumble on lol. Anyhow I think this looks more modest of an exposure. ![]() Just for fun I was tweaking with the other one too, and I think there's a lot of potential with playing with curves and shit. You can get some really defined details pulled from it. ![]() You could do this while still retaining a lot more of the stars in the picture but I don't have enough time to mess too much with that. Basically just reducing midtones but keeping the highlights isolated/still bright. IMO it's a better result to have less stars in the sky, but having those dazzling patches of galaxy be more noticeable, but go for whatever suits your tastes~ |
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Thanks for all your help Spenner. I took a few things you said into consideration and came out with this:
Totally Prof Pic Worthy ![]() Also to answer your question, I used this website to find where there was the least amount of light pollution in my state. If you are on the east coast you are kinda screwed. Also I was going with f/1.4, sooooo yeah lmfao. I'm lucky to be able to drive an hour and get this shot. Denver ftw. Night Sky Finder |
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Damn son. A lot of the places here are most clear by the great lakes, but even then I don't see anything remotely like that. I suppose if I had a long enough exposure I could though, or a ridiculous ISO.
Nice stuff, only beef with that one is the saturation, I feel like it makes the artifacts/grain more noticeable. TBH I'd try some without a subject there, just work on getting a solid shot of just the sky. The silhouettes don't add too too much at the moment, but play with some ideas for things you could add. Might be some interesting things, like bringing a small table with toy houses and cars and such, make it look like a whole nightly scene :P I also wouldn't normally suggest something like this but having a wide angle adaptor at the end of your lens might be cool too. However I think that would greatly increase the blue fringe you see on the sides of stars, if that matters. |
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Xiv I hope you can see this message now that the chat has died down. I wanted to say congrats! I know you can do a little bitter but I always want to tip my hat off to you. Through thick and thin I will still be here to always support you. I know times are hard, but you always come back with a good attitude. I wish you the very best on your next runs, and hope you get an even better score. I will continue to be here and find new strats as always. Great job Xiv. I am rooting for you always! You should be proud.
If anyone gets this reference, you are my eternal friend. |
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I never posted this one, not as good as the others but still one of my favorites:
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