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Some photographs I took while walking around a commerical/chain store/etc. strip a few weeks ago.

Critique, etc., please.
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>> Anonymous
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I don't know why I like this one, but I do.

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>> Anonymous
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I'd really appreciate a critique on this one, even though I know it's not too good. Street/people photography is what I really want to do, but I'm unpracticed in it.

This was some guy walking around and looking at cars in a dealership I walked through. The dealership was closed, too.

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>> Anonymous
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More attempts at that sort of photography, outside a grocery store.

I can't decide whether this one or the next one is better.

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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
http://zip.4chan.org/p/res/42586.html

Accidentally posted a photograph in a seperate thread. Reply here, if you would.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
They don't look good enough for me to download ~2.5MB.
>> Anonymous
>>42588
Use the delete function bottom right corner of the page and then repost in the proper thread.

>>42601
Yes. I agree. Usually a series like this often produces subpar photographs. You walk around and you're taking pictures, but you're forcing it. When you walk around, you want to look for opportunities. Even if you're walking around for a while, you might not even get more than 3 pictures. Just because it may seem like you're wasting time walking around, you shouldn't take pictures for the sake of doing so if there isn't a good shot to take. Instead, you should realize that you are practicing notholding or pressing a button, but rather your skill to envision your pictures before you take them.

Not to sound too pretentious, but I think shooting with film really teaches you better than digital. Each shot should have a minimal amount of thought put into it, or else you would have wasted an exposure that an amazing picture could have been developed on.
>> F64
I've never seen anyone do this before, especially not with a point and shoot.

No but seriously, theyre boring, and look like they were taken by a 14 year old trying to be an artist- dont post your work until you start producing something worth showing
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>42624
I don't like this attitude. i'm pretty unskilled bnd i try to use /p/ to get ides for improvement. books on photography cost a heap and i dont know whereto look for critique other than here. be helpful goddammit.
>> Anonymous
>>42622
>Use the delete function bottom right corner of the page and then repost in the proper thread.

I tried that; it didn't seem to work.

>but you're forcing it
Yeah, some of these were definitely forced. The advice I've always heard is to take as many exposures as one can, and extract the good ones from that. Not that I didn't put thought into them, but I think some subjects I just forced and photographed regardless of how the light was.
>> Anonymous
>>42631

There are dozens of places to post photos for critique. Just use Google. photo.net comes to mind, though I don't post there personally.

Not many critique places would want you anyways, with an attitude like that. If your pictures are boring, you're going to get told that.

Also, libraries are a good source of free photo books.
>> Anonymous
>>42645
my library has 0 photo books. i won't be near a good library for a few weeks when i move.

anyway i dont care if i'm told that my photos are boring. i'm more itnerested in WHY they are boring, told to me by someone who has experience so that i can emulate them.
>> Anonymous
Just to be clear,>>42631and>>42646are not me, the OP.
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>42647
that's why i use a trip
>> ac
>>42624
>dont post your work until you start producing something worth showing
The way he'll learn what's worth showing, and learn when he has something that is, is to post to places like this and invite critique.

Be a dick less, 'kay?
>> Anonymous
>>42590
I liked this one, except for the fact that the car is blurry. It just looks wrong. The light is interesting, and the composition - that everything is pointing in the same direction - also. It could have been a good shot, but still it's not really exciting. It seems to have no meaning, no feeling, like something you would put up on a wall just to cover up a hole in it.

The rest are boring. I will try to explain why I think so.

The light is boring except for in the car pic, no interesting shadows or colours.

The pics are messy, with no real focus.

...and most importantly, no point.

Photographs are supposed to tell the viewer something. They are supposed to tell a tale, or show something unusual or beautiful. Try and learn about focal depth (that's the name?) and the rest of the camera's functions, and play with them. Try and actually just take a shoot when you feel that a scene has a meaning, not just when you feel compelled to use your camera and point it at anything.

And good luck. I hope to see better pics from you soon.
>> Anonymous
>>42675
>I liked this one, except for the fact that the car is blurry. It just looks wrong. The light is interesting, and the composition - that everything is pointing in the same direction - also. It could have been a good shot, but still it's not really exciting. It seems to have no meaning, no feeling, like something you would put up on a wall just to cover up a hole in it.

Yeah, I understand what you're saying. It ended up that way for a couple reasons, chiefly because it was almost accidental. I saw the light on the highway, and just started shooting cars as they came past. This particular one just happened, and this car was going too fast (surprising considering its age) to not be blurred at the shutter speed I was using.

>The light is boring except for in the car pic, no interesting shadows or colours.

The pics are messy, with no real focus.

...and most importantly, no point.

I was trying to have a point in the first two and others like them I shot; early in the shoot, I was trying to show how empty these big strips are, physically and emotionally. (In before the word "pretension" is used.) It didn't work out; they just ended up being boring, I agree. I was hoping /p/ could tell me why.
>> Anonymous
The shots of people I wanted a critique of because, like I said, that's what I want to do the most of. I think the shots of the guy smoking have good composition, but bad lighting. I posted these and the others because I was in that folder anyway for the first two shots.

>Try and learn about focal depth (that's the name?) and the rest of the camera's functions, and play with them.

I do that a lot; I've been playing with this camera since December. This is the first time I've posted photographs onto /p/. Any particular experiments you suggest trying out?

>Try and actually just take a shoot when you feel that a scene has a meaning, not just when you feel compelled to use your camera and point it at anything.

I thought it did, and I botched it somehow, I know. I've taken some pretty good shots of people I know, candids and things like that, but I'm wary of posting those anywhere on 4chan, lest they find their way to /b/.

>And good luck. I hope to see better pics from you soon.
Thanks.