TripleSuplex Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 heres my fireworks contribution i tried to use the manual settings but i need to learn more /yesinexperienced 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrChupacabra Posted July 5, 2009 Author Share Posted July 5, 2009 Haha alright. I didn't really like the original, so I tried to make it better, but it seems like it didn't work. If you want to try to fix it with a little editing (all stuff that could be done in a darkroom too), i'd say darken it up a tad and bump up the contrast a little bit. Right now its slightly over exposed, though nothing that isn't fixable. As it stands now it's kind of a sea of washed out light greys. No actual blacks and even what should be darker greys are looking washed out. The two crops you posted just highlight the problem. No offense meant at all, but a bunch of your pictures you have posted seem to be a touch over exposed. I know you're learning the ropes, and we've all been there, so my recommendation to you would be to carry a little notepad of some sort with you when you're shooting and shoot each picture 2 or 3 times. Shoot it once as you think it should be metered, once a step higher and once a step lower, and write down the settings for each. Then when you get them back, take a look through them and start trying to remember what sort of lighting situations you're going to want to adjust your aperture and shutter speed in for future photos. It may sound like a pain in the ass to bracket, but in the long run it'll help you out a lot. Plus, it sucks to have a great photo opportunity and then when you get it back, it didn't turn out how you had hoped. Also, just curious as to what speed film you're shooting with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Pryor Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 nice fireworksd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LosingMyMind Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Actually, I would like an opinion on cropping. I usually try not to do anything except resize in photoshop, but this picture needed to be cropped, and I'm not sure which is better. Original All I would do to it would be to darken it up a little bit and crop whatever that was in the bottom right corner out. I'm no photographer though. edit - like others have said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XJONATHONX Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Mn1, those two are dope. Fuck fireworks. Brought my 16-35 and my 70-200 was what I needed. W/E i'll post up some long exposures of the pre fireworks that were rad. Being drunk didn't help either. Yep. It was boring in general though. I left halfway through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 I used a tilt shift and tripod as usual and caught some bangers of NYC's 400th bday special last night. Macy's moved it to the Hudson river this year and millions of out of towners showed up, all most as bad as new years. I also hung out with some crazy photogs from Italy later at the bar afterwards. One of them sold a picture of beyonce to playboy recently and they are always on some celebrity shoots. I think they were famous or whatever and I might get to work with them drawing storyboards and assisting (lugging around heavy shit since I don't know nothing about protography) One of my boys works for them off and on already and learned alot just assisting them. After the bar I smoked a little then roamed solo with a tripod around midtown till morning. Crazy night, deleted anything I didn't like alot and still came out with 200+ I usually only get around 50 a night in verification mode not deleting anything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyDickYourMouth Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 I also hung out with some crazy photogs from Italy later at the bar afterwards. One of them sold a picture of beyonce to playboy recently and they are always on some celebrity shoots. I think they were famous or whatever and I might get to work with them drawing storyboards and assisting (lugging around heavy shit since I don't know nothing about protography) One of my boys works for them off and on already and learned alot just assisting them. who were the photographers? i worked assisted a italian catalog photographer in nyc a few times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mercer Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 who were the photographers? i worked assisted a italian catalog photographer in nyc a few times. I'm not sure, the only name I remembered was Fabio because of the I can't believe it's not butter dude. The other dude was supposedly the main dude behind the shutter, if my computer worked I'd upload pics of them. They work in NYC alot though and both are around thier 30's. It was funny, the one dude called Fabio zoolander joking around. I guess a while back Fabio couldn't get a work visa to work in the US. So they photoshopped his dudes face over all these magazine covers to make it look like he was a model. So if those are the dudes you worked with you'd probably know that story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyDickYourMouth Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Hmmm dont think I know a Fabio but fashion photography is a small scene in NYC so its a possibility I have met them. So many people from Italy come over here to shoot its hard to keep track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
215588626 Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 aab liningbingshuisadqqwlksdooppxiangxiang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn1_fuckos Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 hope you like your tampon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bahleediddy Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 desaturate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earmuffs Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolf Harris Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 a few from a wander i went on recently. crits welcome 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 If you want to try to fix it with a little editing (all stuff that could be done in a darkroom too), i'd say darken it up a tad and bump up the contrast a little bit. Right now its slightly over exposed, though nothing that isn't fixable. As it stands now it's kind of a sea of washed out light greys. No actual blacks and even what should be darker greys are looking washed out. The two crops you posted just highlight the problem. No offense meant at all, but a bunch of your pictures you have posted seem to be a touch over exposed. I know you're learning the ropes, and we've all been there, so my recommendation to you would be to carry a little notepad of some sort with you when you're shooting and shoot each picture 2 or 3 times. Shoot it once as you think it should be metered, once a step higher and once a step lower, and write down the settings for each. Then when you get them back, take a look through them and start trying to remember what sort of lighting situations you're going to want to adjust your aperture and shutter speed in for future photos. It may sound like a pain in the ass to bracket, but in the long run it'll help you out a lot. Plus, it sucks to have a great photo opportunity and then when you get it back, it didn't turn out how you had hoped. Also, just curious as to what speed film you're shooting with? I see what you're saying, so I tried to darken it up a bit and this is what I came up with: Still not the best photo, but whatever. I tried when I first got the camera to take multiple pictures and write all the info down, but the place I get the photos developed doesn't keep anything in order. But now that I understand more about exposure, I would be able to tell differentiate the stops. Money was also a problem so I was just hoping I'd get lucky. But now that you said they're overexposed, I guess I learned a bad habit. The black and white is 400CN, and the earlier colors ones were 200 or 400. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XJONATHONX Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 when you get your negatives back, match it up with the pictures. Match the negative numbers up with your notes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tookthetime Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 not great stuff, but heres some flicks i took and one kinda self portrait...http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n310/justAgirlNm/l_99d0e76e7b5a81963e8712f046cb87e2.jpg[/img]"] http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n310/justAgirlNm/l_3e7058bc9653beaef02be3a012120b2a.jpg[/img]"] http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n310/justAgirlNm/l_97100c122fbaec9cbc371b9e8b6080db.jpg[/img]"] http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n310/justAgirlNm/3194914298_32c3a99ffc.jpg[/img]"] http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n310/justAgirlNm/3132255940_d5cb83e4cf.jpg[/img]"] http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n310/justAgirlNm/i12078305281p.jpg[/img]"] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolf Harris Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 a few more from a walk i took tonight, my batter ran out pretty quickly so this's all i got. crits welcome... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchThe$nitch Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 hope you like your tampon RAD man! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mn1_fuckos Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Bought a nikon d80 it took me to the cleaners but im movin on up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XJONATHONX Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Sorry to hear you bought a nikon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBchit Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 what's so bad about nikon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 People get jealose of you and wish they had one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XJONATHONX Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Good luck shooting sports... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mn1_fuckos Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 im cool with it down the line when i make some more money ill buy myself a hasselblad got it off craigslist from some guy triyin to get rid of it because he bought a nikon d300. he took less the 2000 flicks with the d80 and had it sitting in the original box for 6 months. So it think it was a steal even though im broke as fuck now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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