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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-17-2010, 04:16 AM
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Here's the ones that I like from your collection, hope it helps in some way for you to decide.
Good luck in Niigata.
2, 25, 28, 30, 34, 38.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-17-2010, 03:14 PM
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Hey there, got some great shots! i will save my personal insight and reasons behind why i chose the following shots, other than that they were the shots that jumped out at me and made me take a closer, more thoughtful look. some just looked rad, while others were interesting in colors and textures. good stuff, and good luck with your review--sounds like it will be very fun and inspiring!
In no particular order:
17. Spider on stripes
19. Red walkway, centered
28. Religous through broken glass
30. Random scraps on red ground
34. Sepia windowed room
42. Red palm, gray sky
The last two light trails were pretty interesting as well, maybe throw in #45 too ;)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-16-2010, 01:26 AM
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Cha ching, here goes my 2 cents for what its worth :lol:
#2 - V.interesting idea and nice execution
#8 - Nice lighting/processing, evokes a strong feel for the mood (eerie)
#9 - Fairly commonly done idea, but I still like it. The cool tones have matrix feel ;)
#16 - Not sure if this stands out since you're in japan, but the photo holds my interest as I'm unfamiliar with the game and Japanese characters the single tile on the table is a nice compositional touch IMO
#24 - I like the bokeh and lighting on the spider (the plant to the left in closer to focus is vaguely distracting though)
#27 - Simple clean and traditional
#34 - Great exposure and use of sepia. The repetition leads the eye for me. :)
#36 - The flare is really bizarre but I enjoy the effect it has on the shot
#37 - The top eves causing the repetitive cutout effect is cool, and the colours complement
Possibly #6 I prefer it to the other spoke wheel shot (contrast & lighting + crop)
I'll say this, i'm not a fan of HDR processing in a lot of cases - especially when the super even lighting and shadows sticks out as abnormal. Others love it though so go figure :D I see halos on things, that looks not so attractive to my eye.
Hope this helps, and I'm envious of your opportunity (although i'm purely an amateur myself haha) :)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-16-2010, 01:15 AM
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Thanks! :) By the way I quite like the photo of the woman looking down at...something.. but personally I find the bright lights in the top left corner distracting. Aside from that, it's an interesting closeup. Were you putting more on facebook or elsewhere?
Maybe you could post in the critique forum and link back to this thread?
Rob
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Forum: General Talk
11-01-2010, 09:26 AM
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More photos of the crowd from the Huffington Post.
This one would be from just to the right of the stage (looking out) and clearly shows the incredible density of the crowd.
Must have been on a media crane...
It's also looking like the 215,000 estimate was low as regards total people who came in for the rally. It's becoming evident that many many many people who came in for the rally could not actually get to the Mall (evidenced by reports of streets jammed with pedestrians for blocks and blocks around the Mall) and by Metro's ridership estimates (as reported in the Washington Post )
 Quote: Metro sets a record. Thanks to the Rally to Restore Sanity/Keep Fear Alive event -- Metro set a ridership record on Saturday with more than 850,000 people using the transit system. (On a regular Saturday, ridership around 320,000.) But the day was not without problems. Four people were injured when an escalator malfunctioned at the L'Enfant Plaza station and there were complaints about jammed packed cars and stations.
And these numbers are likely low since there are new reports that are saying that metro workers opened the turnstiles at many stations to speed the crowds entrance and exit.
Mike
p.s. one person made the following analysis on a WaPo coments page...
Quote: Let the numbers speak for themselves.
According to Metro, there were 825,437 on Stewart/Colbert day and 510,020 on Beck day. Average Saturday ridership is about 350,000 (both events were on Saturday).
Even if you exclude the average daily riders, and assume two trips per person (one there, one back), that yields 80,010 for Beck and 237,718 for Stewart/Colbert.
This method corresponds to APL’s analysis of 87,000 for Beck and 215,000 for Stewart/Colbert. Thus, at a minimum, it seems fair to conclude from the data that Stewart/Colbert drew three times as many as Beck. Metro - Rail - Disruption Reports - Daily Service Information Beck's Rally Metro - About Metro - News - Metro sets new record for highest Saturday Metrorail ridership Colbert/Stewart Rally |
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Forum: General Talk
10-30-2010, 04:27 PM
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I watched the whole rally on Comedy Central and was quite moved. It was very well done and the "take it down a notch" attitude was really in the air. Someone called it the Woodstock of Politics and that statement seems to fit. Just a nice civil three hours in Washington and as I understand it, there were satellite rallies all across the country. I'm not a good judge of crowds, but there were certainly a lot of people there.
One of my favorite segments...Cat Stevens to Ozzie to the OJ's. Classic. Father Guido Sarducci giving the benediction was also outstanding.
In the end though, Jon Stewart's speech at the close was what this rally was all about.
Larry
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Forum: Photo Critique
10-29-2010, 04:08 PM
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i'd turn on the faucet (tap for us brits) then take the shot.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
10-27-2010, 09:18 AM
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I totally echo this advice, and here's a good route to getting published fast. (If you can't write, just do the photos part, but when you review the below, I bet you'll see that you can handle the writing.)
Go to your community's/city's web site and look for upcoming events. You will find something as boring as Interfaith Day (where city religious leaders get together and hold hands)...something really cool, like Lindsay Lohan cutting the ribbon of the new downtown detox center...or something boring again, like the Mayor's walk in the park with the citizens.
Get to these events, do a good job, send a few of the best shots with a story to your local community newspapers, and see what happens. It may only be 25 or 50 bucks at first, but do a few of these and you'll start making connections at the publication(s), and they'll think of you first for future work.
You can take this to a higher level by searching out events and happenings in your area that would be of interest to NATIONAL magazines. For example, a nationally sponsored barbecue competition taking place in your town...a regional bowling competition...or a nationally sponsored fishing event (a true fishing competition or father/son type event).
These are just examples, but the point is, these are events where the national publications in question wouldn't send someone to your area to cover them (distance and cost), but they would be thrilled to receive your good photos and story to help them fill pages.
(Being unemployed, this is what I should be doing myself, and maybe you inspired me to get off my ass.)
I have a background in both publishing and advertising work, though not in the photography arena. Having worked in both, I can tell you there's more money in the ad work per project (for example, shooting a restaurant's exterior and interior for an ad), but there's more work in the publishing end, doing photos for newspapers' and magazines' editorial content.
Good luck, and have fun with it! And if you take a look at some of the photos you'll now see in your local newspaper, I guarantee you can learn to blow them away.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
10-27-2010, 02:50 AM
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Hi,
there are several ways to get published:
Contacting magazines by yourself:
First of all, you need to have a book. And depending on the magazine you aim,
you need to build your book in consequence.
A fashion magazine won't be interested in your insect macrophotography, that's evident :p
So try to contact them, tell you have pictures that might interest them and have an appointment/interview with them.
If they're interested, you maybe could sell them some pictures.
Publish on the Internet and get a lot of attention
This is not the most easiest way, but with very low chance rate since there is a lot of rubbish on sites like Flick-r
(my first photos were very bad too! I should remove them from Flick-r :lol: ).
And a lot of people say Waa and Hooo and Wooow, nice bokeh etc... even if the picture is not interesting at all.
Very hard to get noticed (and then published) IMHO.
Participate in national/international/famous/etc. contests
This is another good way for getting published, at least, if you are among the best.
If so, media will get interested in you and you may get proposals (right word?) for getting
published in a photo-dedicated magazine.
I think this is the most glorious way for getting published.
Become a journalist/reporter
And make a lot of good pictures. If people appreciate them, more and more,
you'll become a recognized reporter and people will know you exist.
This is not very easy though. Mayeb start with local press.
Get a contract with some brand
This applies allmost 100% to studio photography. But this is a way to have a 4x12 meter
poster of your photo and model (human or not) on the side of the road.
I don't have much knowledge about this, how to get in the business, but it is a solution.
Maybe there are other ways, but these are the most evident for me..
I'm sure other people will have some other ideas.
Anyway, I wish you good luck! ;)
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Forum: Photo Critique
10-26-2010, 08:33 PM
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I was actually going to suggest shooting RAW and using Adobe Camera RAW, which is included in Photoshop Elements 6 and up, powers Lightroom, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's in Photoshop CS2 through CS5. So it's worth knowing if you have these tools available to you, and it may not be obvious either.
Shooting RAW is one of the big things that separate the typical consumer point and shoot from the dSLRs. It is worth your time (and sometimes even the suffering) to shoot all RAW and not have to worry if the whites are clipped a little bit which cannot be fixed by any Photoshop tool. The data that was there in the RAW but "hidden" so to speak, is completely lost when shooting JPEG.
I'll repeat for clarity: data in the overexposed parts are lost when shooting in JPEG, whereas when shooting RAW, that highlight data is partially recoverable, depending on the severity.
So, basically what I said is learn to shoot, develop, and export RAW files. It's really the thing that can save a shot from being just another "lost it" shot.
If you wanted to make sure you actually save all the detail in the overexposed region, the easiest way is to meter (which means to me set the camera to spot meter), in the viewfinder aim at the brightest part of the image, and if you're in Av mode (for simplicities' sake) use the AE-L button (Auto Exposure-Lock) to lock the exposure on that point.
Right now, if you took the picture, the girl's black shirt would be underexposed just a bit.
So what you should do then is change the overall exposure. You do this by holding down the Exposure compensation button (which is the button with the square divided diagonally and has a plus and minus sign on it) and moving the front dial.
In this case, you should move the point Positive, so your shutter speed will be lower, which means you can strike the balance between overexposed chicken and underexposed shirt. In this situation, I would try a +1EV exposure compensation, give or take a +0.5 EV.
I apologize if you knew this all already, but in case you didn't know... hopefully that will solve any ambiguities.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-25-2010, 07:15 AM
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Ehlacore,
Good for you. I'm glad you were able to find some lenses to work with. Looks like you have the beginnings of a pretty decent kit. That 24-135mmm should serve you very well as a walk around lens. Next thing to get, when time and money allow it, is a good sharp prime. Again, I'd say the A50mm 1.7. If you have problems with manual focus, pick up a diagonal split prism focus screen for $25.00. They aren't perfect but they sure do help.
Have fun with your new lenses.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-21-2010, 12:58 AM
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