Quick Crit thread 2012

Camera left or her left?

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Originally Posted by DarkHalcyon

So, I've been in a photo class for a few months now and the entire time we were required to operate with B&W film with B&W paper. Recently, we've gotten into coloring our images through various mediums.

Now, I'm no professional photographer, nor do I have a neat digital SLR camera like Timo. I just want to see where my images stand at the moment. I'm looking to do some photography over the summer and I'd like to see where I need improvement. These are just two of my most recent, and probably best images.

Hand Colored
<oh>

Sepia Toned
<snap>

I'm using an ancient 35mm Canon At-1 with a standard 50mm lens. They are manually colored B&W photos, but I'm looking to get some standard color film for the future. Ignoring that, just tell me what I should do to fix my composition, contrast, etc.

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Composition is pretty good, but i've always thought that photos with degraded quality (either by colour or contrast ala instagram) have a nice look regardless of the content. However it looks like you've got the rule of thirds down-pat and a good balance of foreground/background. One thing that really grinds my gears with photos is horizontal lines/horizons that aren't straight, but that's one thing i'm pretty anal about and unless you're doing landscape photography I guess it doesn't matter that much.

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Originally Posted by Timo

Composition is pretty good, but i've always thought that photos with degraded quality (either by colour or contrast ala instagram) have a nice look regardless of the content. However it looks like you've got the rule of thirds down-pat and a good balance of foreground/background. One thing that really grinds my gears with photos is horizontal lines/horizons that aren't straight, but that's one thing i'm pretty anal about and unless you're doing landscape photography I guess it doesn't matter that much.

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I blame the tripod I was using, which is really the only one in the house. It was really meant for one of those cheap, 3lb Walmart telescopes and not my 5lb camera. My camera doesn't mount properly and it tends to make the platform lean a bit. I see what you mean though and I'll see what I can do for future pictures.

I hate playing TF2... but I sure do love the visuals.

That's a nice environment, though I'm not really digging anything outside the center room.

I haven't touched max in awhile but I threw together an animation as practice. What should I work on improving?

maybe your lighting

That was hot.

Oh fuck, I had my speakers on max and my whole house heard that >_< Still hilarious!

I know that ^ was immature, but can you blame a guy for having some fun? Everything around here seems to turn into a debate... lighten up guys!