Post your photography skills! (self-gloss)

[themexconnect]

New here, but looking through the pages of this thread I must say there are a lot of talented photographers here nice pics!!

 

[Crane's]

Amphibian portraiture...

 

[lasbar]



Amphibian portraiture...

Beautiful picture..

 

[Szeph el raton]

Didn't shoot in quite a while. Today I pulled out the filter system and went to the rhine.


Unbenannt von Philipp Abele auf Flickr


Unbenannt von Philipp Abele auf Flickr

 

[il ciclista]

 

[Kaplan]

Nice, il ciclista. I wonder if the second photo would be improved by removing the left part of the building, for more symmetry.

 

[il ciclista]

^^the left or right? The angels horn from my eyes looks in the middle. Taking more would make it asymmetrical no?

 

[Kaplan]

I meant removing the triangle you see of the building, set back from the wall where the angel is. Not cropping, but photoshopping it out, so the angel's wall get the same amount of black on each side, giving it more of a monumental, symmetric feel. I've never done photo manipulation like so, only using cropping, colour and contrast controls on my simple snaps, but I know lot of great photos are tinkered with like this, so maybe it's something worth trying.

If it's film, I guess it could be acchieved by dodging and burning.

 

[il ciclista]

Ohhh gotcha yeah that would be fairly easy to do. I'll give it a go, thanks!

 

[j944]

Went home for a couple weeks and tried some night shots

 

[il ciclista]

This is with the left bit out, it does add symmetry, but does it look like something is missing on the left or is it just because i've seen it in person and my mind is wired to know that it isn't correct?

 

[dcg]

A few from Watkins Glen state park

P7040122.jpg by davecg, on Flickr

P7020017.jpg by davecg, on Flickr

P7040134.jpg by davecg, on Flickr

P7040194.jpg by davecg, on Flickr

 

[Kaplan]



This is with the left bit out, it does add symmetry, but does it look like something is missing on the left or is it just because i've seen it in person and my mind is wired to know that it isn't correct?

That sounds likely. I can't say for sure which is the better version, but when seeing the first I was slightly distracted by the part now removed, and I do think it works well in the edited version.

 

[il ciclista]

Thanks for the feedback Kaplan. I do like the second one better the more I look at it. I feel I should go back and take it at a better angle now.


DCG that second picture is brilliant!

 

[Kaplan]

You're welcome

dcg, I too think that second one is great. As for you water effects, are they as silky as you had planned? It may be because you very often see long(er) exposure shots with moving water, but I think I might either prefer them with frozen-in-movement water or much more silky (like in Szeph el raton's post above) - I guess that would mean cranking the ND filters...