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Zyjek
Ok, /p/. I've never posted here with my photography, but since I've disabled comments on my deviantArt, I need YOUR unfriendly advice. Unleash hell on my photography, 4Chan.
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>> Anonymous
Sorry the photo does nothing for me. What else have you got.
>> Anonymous
1 - Light on the floor is overexposed, Yay big blob of white.
2 - What am I supposed to be looking at? Nothing in this picture draws attention, it lacks a center of focus.
3 - On the note of focus, the out-of-focus thing in the bottom-right (Chair?) is an eyesore.
Play with focus and aperture until you can get the entire thing in focus, and then with shutter speed and ISO (A high ISO with all of it's graininess might be a nice touch to the gloomy, dingy environment) until you can get the picture well-exposed, then insert something interesting to draw attention, because right now all you have is a backdrop - Anything works as long as it draws attention (ie - Doll, scantily clad women, etc etc)
Also, gb2/DA/, take your camera off 'Point and shoot' mode, and get a damn "Beginner's Guide to Photography" at your local Barnes and Noble.
On the more positive side, I will say that you found an excellent enviroment. Don't be afraid to get dirty when you take pictures by laying on the ground and etc; and get a tripod - In a low-light environment like that, a Tripod would be a lifesaver.
>> Photon
As>>33805mentioned,
1) Overexposure,
2) Boring,
3) Focus or not focus, there's really nothing to look at. If you are trying for the haunted look, do black and white.
4) RAN out of things to say since there's really nothing about this photo.
>> Anonymous
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This reminds me of a shot I took. Tell me if mine sucks too.

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>> Anonymous
>>33876

it sucks more than OP's pic. The angle's shit and it's flat.
>> Anonymous
>>33876
Sucks just as hard.

1 - Lighting sucks. Uniform flat lighting, seemingly from built-in flash. Lighting coming down low from side, casting long gloomy shadows would have been fappable in this picture.
2 - God damnit point and shoot auto settings. A wide aperture in this picture, focused onto the junk on the floor and putting the background into a blur would have been great - ISO could have been kicked up to give the picture a grainy and weary feeling.
3 - Dull colors. Touching up saturation of the junk in the picture would make it jump out more and draw attention to it's self quickly. As it is now, your eyes wander over the picture looking for a center of focus before settling on the junk.
4 - Uninteresting angle. Don't be afraid to get dirty and low when you're shooting pictures, a very low angle in this picture giving the junk a feeling of dominance and towering-ness would have been excellent.

tl;dr - Point and shoot; Aperture was too narrow, Shitty lighting (From built-in Camera flash. Suck.); Boring angle; nothing stands out.

God people, you can get a big-ass book of Photography 101 for 10 bux at your Barnes and Noble used section - Even if the book rambles on about film cameras, all of the stuff in it about lighting, angles, aperture, shutter speeds, flashes, ISO, etc etc.. is still entirely valid with a Digital camera.
Also, why the hell can't I find environments like this? I'd kill for a nice abandoned trashy house or two..
>> Anonymous
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>>33889

Thanks a lot for your input, I appreciate it. I went into the photoshops and played a bit with the pic, basing what i did, on what you said, and I may've improved it.

In my defense, my camera lacks, manual focus, aperture, and shutter speed control, as it's a economy point and shoot. I had no other light source. Also I am, by no means a photographer, only a /b/tard who wandered onto another board.

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>> Anonymous
I'm the total opposite to>>33805. I think the composition of this picture is really awesome. The contrast in brightness and colour. The motive is but boring, though I wonder were it was shot.
>> Anonymous
>>33950
lets see some of you're photography lawwd
>> Anonymous
try to avoid the obvious standing up and looking down at the scene kind of angle that makes the pic look snapshotty. Kneel down, sit, stand on a chair and look *straight* down... try playing with the angles. That, and needs more drama. Better lighting would help, as has already been mentioned.
>> Anonymous
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>>33929
5 minutes in photoshop.
You did get the colors somewhat more noticable, but it also screamed 'Shopped!' like nothing else.

Things you didn't do which you ought to do next time you shop a picture like this:
1 - Crop out uninteresting bits of the picture (Read: Most of the picture)
2 - Follow the rule of thirds when cropping (Google it.)
3 - Blur out uninteresting bits to draw attention to non-blurred junk on floor (I tried for faking a wide aperture. At a glance it's passable, but what I did is still quite clearly shopped - It's hard to fake things like that in photoshop, meaning, take the picture right. Photoshop isn't a magical fix-all)
Things you did poorly or could have done better:
1 - Overdid the noise, in a way which doesn't seem very much like the noise you'd get from high ISO film - Moderation is your friend.
2 - Saturation increase looks incredibly fake, partially due to big grey spots on the clay pot - Either don't up the saturation that much, or go in and touch up the grey spots.
On the brighter side, you're willing to learn and take criticism and do something constructive with it. Massive bonus points for that, most people around here would have exclaimed "STFU FAG MY PICTURE IS TEH PERFECT" by now.

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>> Anonymous
>>34034
Con't (In before Tl;dr)

If you're curious to what I did, I did a rough outline of the pile of junk on the ground with the lasso tool, feathered the selection by 25px, upped the saturation, inverted the selection, reduced the saturation of everything else, used the blur tool and blurred out everything of non-interest, Copy-pasta'd the layer into a second copy of it's self, Added Noise (2%) to the Copy-pasta layer, erased the junk out of the second layer (Top layer with noise, big hole devouring the pots and plates, bottom layer without noise, showing non-noisy pots and plates through the hole in the top layer), Cropped, Posted on 4chan.

But really, no amount of Photoshop can ever make a bad picture look perfect - You'd be better off mastering your Camera before mastering Photoshop.