codepic

Awesome colors on that crab. Too bad the rock is blocking part of the crab. I wish you had used smaller aperture since the depth-of-field is too shallow to keep the whole crab in focus.

Very nice catch. I don't like the centered horizon line and I don't like the right side of the picture since it's too foggy. Otherwise I wish I had taken that photo :)

Thank's for your insight.

hmm, let me try the attachment again...

This catched my eye because while it is overall a good photo, it's a bit like washed away by the cold blue skylight and the yellowish/green hue. So I grabbed the photo, and worked on it a bit on photoshop. Image>Adjustments>Levels (blue/green levels separately). Then I gave it a bit more contrast, filter > sharpen > unsharp mask and in the end, auto levels. See what I got.

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This shot is taken through glass from a train travelling 100mph

through the countryside. I tried to catch the tree standing on the

field and the tracks in the crops visible while the front of the

image would be blurred by the speed. Any critique is welcome...

Definitely newt gone wild :D Amusing, yes :)

Hi Don,

 

Before I clicked the thumbnail for this shot, I saw the devil himself. The funny thing was the photos was named Devils Bathtub which I didn't know before clicking. See the attached image to see what I mean.

Had a nice shooting trip into a car museum today :)

It's a passenger plane and I intended to shoot it just like it is now at the same angle as the sail line :)

Well it was really cool looking live too. This is composed of 3 photos by the way...

Hey this is very nice!!! Keep experimenting..

 

It keeps me waiting for something with the lighting though... Maybe something like this

http://www.powerstop.net/Portals/93/UserGallery/229/iStock_000000147081_L1.jpg

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Orion on Horizon... Thanks for the critique...

I kind of like the composition. What do you think?

Thank you for your comments & critique...

Hmm. I got a feeling you're soon in a hardware store... :) Anyway, here's what I've been reading lately: http://www.tabletopstudio.com/documents/TTS_FAQ.htm

 

Mostly because I had to take some 20 product shots really fast and I didn't want to play with poor lighting. So I ran off to the closest hardware store and bought 3 construction yard halogens. 500W each. I set all the halogens and some white paper as the backdrop + 2 big mirrors on the sides into my closet. That's right, my closet :) Anyway, I'll send you a photo as an attachment so you can have your laugh :) Not too pro ehe?

 

Anyway, I am currently building a better studio in a nearby house but I guess I'll be using this one in the closet for my nightly shooting pleasures. First of all, I'm lazy at leaving my home office, secondly, hmm... I wonder what my wife would think if I were running outside the house all the nights :)

 

Besides, this is just as good for testing. I don't find it very sane to buy $1000+ gear just to see what product photography is and wether I like it :)

Well I was kind of outside in order to shoot some after-rain shots so I guess I was looking for this. But if you grab the original, crop it, invert the colors and then do auto levels on Photoshop, you start seeing something very familiar. If you go further by desaturing and adding a photo filter in photoshop, you get pretty close to the antimaterial shot we've got here. By the way, the Antimaterial name comes from inverting the colors. I didn't like the positive original.. :)

I posted the original here so you can take a look :)

You might also want to take a look at Allon Kira's sunset: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2568309

 

That's another exceptional sunset shot although there's JPEG compression that took the edge of the shot...

There's also 3 other things I noticed: I have left some dust particles in the shot and I don't like the double-reflections in the mirror. Well I could have got rid of the other reflection with my Circular Polarizer but unfortunately I couldn't use it as it's in the photo itself :) Also, I could have rotated the filters enough so that the texts on the sides would have been visible. Now the UV(0) filter only shows Hoya HMC and the Cokin filter doesn't show anything, which leads to the question if I knew what I was doing while taking the shot.

 

Nevertheless, I had my main concern on the lighting and the visibility of the colors on the filters while trying to avoid hotspots.

 

I am still pretty satisfied with the result but I am more glad to notice I can still improve the result. But the biggest victory for me in this shot is that it's not manipulated at all and that it's shot without a tripod ;)

 

Thank you so much for your comments, feel free to contact me any time you need feedback on your photos :)

 

Jani

You've got very nice deep and clear colors in here. I don't know why but it seems this photo has something that I miss on most of the sunset photos. There's just something that 'feels right' in this photo...

I'm not trying to be very artistic now or make a political point here.

This is just a technical shot and I've been experimenting with the

technique for some while already. This photo, is completely

unmanipulated. Taken out of the camera in RAW format with the camera

default settings and white balance 'as shot'. Nothing more was done in

photoshop but added a 2px stroke and resized. Thank you for your

comments. I would like to know if there's something to improve...

Thanks you for your comments :)