So this is just a pic i ended up using for my photography class.We had to use 5 themed photos of local scene and 5 of choice. Kept it local and stayed in my living room lol. Edited it a little in lightroom. End up using it as another pic to put on blog. What do you think? Shot it w/ the canon standard 18-55 lens btw.
Well, your focal point should have been the bowl of the pipe. You folloewd the rule of thirds but the killer grinder seemed to be your focal point in this photo, or at least it competes with the bowl as the main focus. The issue there is that the grinder really lacks any visual interest, at least in the way you have it in this photo. Putting the grinder on its side would make it hard to see the "killer grinder" text, but hell, who needs text in an image anyway? But by placing the grinder on its side you add more visual interest in the form of the texturing that is on the edges of the grinder. Also, the background is somewhat distracting, and the foreground is quite the opposite; it's quite bland. I very much liked the fact that there some grit on the surface (that is most definitely a pube near the grinder ) the pipe is on, but your very limited field of view blurs much of it out in the foreground. To get away with such a narrow field of view you're going to have to take multiple shots (ie. one with closest part of table in focus, one with a little farther in the table in focus, one near the pipe, one of the pipe itself). The cool option that this opens up is a selective focus effect where part of the foreground is out of focus while some is in focus, which if used properly can help draw attention to the focal point in the image. As for some other things the pipe needs some dodging and burning, and there's a lot of noise all over the image, don't know if this is from you using high ISO setting on your camera (greatest probability) or you adding noise afterwards with edits. If you're trying to go for that grainy look my suggestion is to use a lower ISO setting to take the shot and then add noise artificially in Photoshop, but doing so selectively. (ie. the table and background, but not the bowl or grinder). The sheet of paper (or whatever that is) in the foreground to the left does nothing. Edit it out (the clone stamp tool is gonna be your best friend in the photoshop world). Anyhow, I could be even more nitpicky but I'm not the artist here. I very much like the concept of the photo I just think that you could do a lot to refine it and make it much more appealing. I would love to bust out the d7000 and show you some of the techniques I'm talking about, but unfortunately I learned last week that Nikon batteries are pretty much useless after you (accidentally) expose them to the cold.
[quote name='"HighOnTheTotem"']Well, your focal point should have been the bowl of the pipe. You folloewd the rule of thirds but the killer grinder seemed to be your focal point in this photo, or at least it competes with the bowl as the main focus. The issue there is that the grinder really lacks any visual interest, at least in the way you have it in this photo. Putting the grinder on its side would make it hard to see the "killer grinder" text, but hell, who needs text in an image anyway? But by placing the grinder on its side you add more visual interest in the form of the texturing that is on the edges of the grinder. Also, the background is somewhat distracting, and the foreground is quite the opposite; it's quite bland. I very much liked the fact that there some grit on the surface (that is most definitely a pube near the grinder ) the pipe is on, but your very limited field of view blurs much of it out in the foreground. To get away with such a narrow field of view you're going to have to take multiple shots (ie. one with closest part of table in focus, one with a little farther in the table in focus, one near the pipe, one of the pipe itself). The cool option that this opens up is a selective focus effect where part of the foreground is out of focus while some is in focus, which if used properly can help draw attention to the focal point in the image. As for some other things the pipe needs some dodging and burning, and there's a lot of noise all over the image, don't know if this is from you using high ISO setting on your camera (greatest probability) or you adding noise afterwards with edits. If you're trying to go for that grainy look my suggestion is to use a lower ISO setting to take the shot and then add noise artificially in Photoshop, but doing so selectively. (ie. the table and background, but not the bowl or grinder). The sheet of paper (or whatever that is) in the foreground to the left does nothing. Edit it out (the clone stamp tool is gonna be your best friend in the photoshop world). Anyhow, I could be even more nitpicky but I'm not the artist here. I very much like the concept of the photo I just think that you could do a lot to refine it and make it much more appealing. I would love to bust out the d7000 and show you some of the techniques I'm talking about, but unfortunately I learned last week that Nikon batteries are pretty much useless after you (accidentally) expose them to the cold.[/quote] I agree, this work is very mediocre. But, practice makes perfect.
my photography teacher is pretty chill. i feel like he either did or still does smoke. he randomly talks about acid.
thanks for the response. i really appreciate that feed back. It's weird when taking pictures i don't always put in to play how much simple things like a paper slightly on the left of the image could affect it . I think i did shoot it at a high iso mainly because the light in the room wasn't very bright and i had the standard lens where if i put it at a low 200 or even 400 the image turns out very dark or very blurry depending on how low i set my shutter speed. i normally like just taking pictures of people with my 50 mm but my lens broke and i had to send it back. & the clone stamp tool i'll have to get use to it. i've only really use lightroom for the most part. I would still love to see some of your stuff. do you have any of your older work? this i had shot w/ my canon xsi.
my photography teacher is pretty chill. i feel like he either did or still does smoke. he randomly talks about acid.
thanks for the response. i really appreciate that feed back. It's weird when taking pictures i don't always put in to play how much simple things like a paper slightly on the left of the image could affect it . I think i did shoot it at a high iso mainly because the light in the room wasn't very bright and i had the standard lens where if i put it at a low 200 or even 400 the image turns out very dark or very blurry depending on how low i set my shutter speed. i normally like just taking pictures of people with my 50 mm but my lens broke and i had to send it back. & the clone stamp tool i'll have to get use to it. i've only really use lightroom for the most part. I would still love to see some of your stuff. do you have any of your older work? this i had shot w/ my canon xs