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Depressed Cheesecake !wFh1Fw9wBU
finally dragged myself out to take pictures again
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>> Anonymous
go to another location. 99% of your stuff is shot at a beach
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>> Depressed Cheesecake !wFh1Fw9wBU
>>249978
I live on the fucking beach, you cockless fuckmuppet.
>> Anonymous !EOS5Dv76E6
>>249981
That doesn't prevent you from going to another location.
>> Anonymous
leaving home = impossible

but whatever, these suck anyway. the blown backgrounds sure add a lot to fucked skin tones. she's pink as a fucking pig in>>249975

cool Av mode, bro.
>> Depressed Cheesecake !wFh1Fw9wBU
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>>249986
shit, I forgot that photos suck unless they're taken in M mode.

1/10 you fail. next.

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>> beethy !vW/UaE6zYU
Don't really like these.... it's almost like you're not even trying to be creative. It looks like you're just using repetitive techniques that you know will make the photos look alright.
They're not that bad, but compared to your older stuff... well.. that just blows these ones out of the water.
Try to loosen up a little when shooting, think outside the box... your photos are starting to look more and more stiff.
Going to another location may not be such a bad idea. It will open up your mind to new ideas.
>> Anonymous
they suck ass

i could make a photograph of a dogturd more interesting than this
>> Anonymous
I'm not particularly fond of these. I don't know, like beethy said, it really does seem like your older shots are a lot less stiff, a bit less constrained. Try a change of scenery, the beaches are cool and all, but not terribly interesting.
>> DOPROSSOD CHOSCOCK
>>249972
Needs fill flash so you don't blow out the background.
Stop that fucker down. Unless you enjoy purposely shitty pictures, the 50mm is much better at f/2 and up and you'll at least get the entirety of your model inside the DoF. As it is now even her hair and hands are out of focus. Setting the white balance would be even better, she looks like she's sunburned or a fucking alien with that magenta skin.
>> Depressed Cheesecake !wFh1Fw9wBU
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>>250000
trollget

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>> NatureGuy !se3A3TwzdY
>>250018
Photoshop out the hair going across her nose and you'll a decent shot. The other shots you've presented are kind of weak and as>>250007mentioned, if you're going to put the natural lighting to the model's back you really should use a fill flash.
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>>250007
I blew out the background intentionally.

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>> Anonymous
>>250007Unless you enjoy purposely shitty pictures
>>250026I blew out the background intentionally.

Go somewhere else if you're going to waste our time with shitty Deviantart photos then, or at least go all the way and start shooting with a Holga or cross-process some film. Terrible pictures aren't cool, they just look like shit.
>> Depressed Cheesecake !wFh1Fw9wBU
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>>250028
Shut up, you stupid douchenugget. Blown highlights don't make a picture shitty. Offer advice worth my time or fuck off and die.

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>> Anonymous
all your models have some weird blank stare
>> Anonymous
She looks like total shit in 90% of these photos.

Good job continuing the be fucking horrible at what you do, despite all the best gear your mommy and daddy can buy.

Why the fuck do you still post here?
>> Anonymous
LMAO at all these being AV Mode.
Go choke to death on a cock, you fag.
>> NatureGuy !se3A3TwzdY
man you guys are raging assholes

seriously, grow up a little guys
>> Anonymous
>>250054
Oh get over yourself already. Why the hell do you even post your photos here if you're just going to throw a hissy fit every single time somebody tries to give you feedback? Seriously, calling somebody a "douchenugget"? That's real mature man. I think 250007 made a valid point -- sure, blown highlights don't necessarily make a shitty picture, but I really don't see how it adds anything to this particular photo.

I think some of your photos are very nice, but you're a complete asshole to people who don't think you're OMG THE BAST FOTOGRAPHER EVER. Balls up an listen to what people are telling you.

In before samefag/poorfag/newfag/gtfo etc
>> Anonymous
>>250085
Shut up your photos also suck balls.
>> Depressed Cheesecake !wFh1Fw9wBU
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>>250073
in 90% of the photos? How can her face look shitty in 5.4 photos? Learn2math, you redneck fuck.

Yeah, 40D, that's the best gear on the market right now. Get the fuck out, cunt.

>>250065
>>250075
Obviously the same jealous fucking fag. AV mode insult? Good one, you turdshuffler. Fail harder.

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>> Anonymous
hahaha.... /p/ be trolling
>> Depressed Cheesecake !wFh1Fw9wBU
>>250089
>Balls up an listen to what people are telling you.

>they suck ass
>cool Av mode, bro.
>Go choke to death on a cock

GOOD ADVICE BROS! A+++++ WILL READ AGAIN!!!!
>> Anonymous
in b4 "LOL jealousfag"
>> Anonymous
I'm seriously convinced that DC is secretly trolling the few anons in /p/ with any sort of taste or real criticism.

See:
>>249978
>>249986
>>250007
>>250023
>>250089
>> Anonymous
>>250093
>>249989
Notice how he glosses over any sort of real advice and just LULZ to make everyone rage even harder.

Seriously, DC's a 10/10 GOD TIER troll.
>> beethy !vW/UaE6zYU
>fuckmuppet
>douchenugget
>turdshuffler

Haha
But seriously. You could at least acknowledge the actual critique you're given.
Instead you're responding to all the hate which makes it seem you're ignoring real critique.
Almost makes it seem like you're trolling /p/
Wait, are you?
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GODAMIT DEPRESSED SHITCAKE WHY DO YOU DO THIS, YOU COME HERE POSTING THIS BAD PHOTOS TAKEN WITH YOUR MOM AND DADDY FUNDED GEAR, THIS PHOTOS ARE GREAT IF YOUR OBJECTIVE IS TO STUFF THEM IN HER MEMOIRS BOOK OR SOMETHING, ARTISTICALLY THEY SUCK, WHAT WHAT THE HELL TAKEN IN AV MODE LOL GO LEARN TO USE MANUAL YOU CANT EVEN GET THE FOCUS IN HER EYES/FACE, AND WHY ALWAYS THE BEACH COME ON ITS STARTING TO GET BORING ALWAYS THE SAME SUNSET GENERIC PHOTO, ONLY POST STUFF WORTH LOOKING AT, YOU AND MORE FIVE MILLION DIGITAL PHOTOSHUUPING NEWBIES ARE CLUSTERFUCKING PHOTOGRAPHY, GO AWAY!
>> beethy !vW/UaE6zYU
>>250101
I am 99% sure this is DC.
I laughed while reading the whole thing though
>> Anonymous
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>>250103
WHAT THE FUCK IM NOT SHITCAKE YOU ASS KISSING PHOTONOOB, YOU CAN EVEN BE WORSE THAN SHITCAKE GO BACK TO POSTING PICTURES OF YOUR GIRLFRIEND ON DEVIANTART YOU HIPSTER YOU MUST THINK YOU ARE REALLY COOL AND ORIGINAL OR SOMETHING, GO TAKE SOME ART CLASSES.
>> Anonymous
>>250099
>>250100
MINDHIVE
>> NatureGuy !se3A3TwzdY
I hold a vague and fading belief that DC really does want to get better, and that this is just unfortunate lack of proper response to trolls and criticism.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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This entire thread fails. We have DC, the trolls and the people actually giving advice. As usual, DC completely ignores the actual advice (or just insults them and walks away) to pay attention to the trolls.

Honestly, DC, if every time you post pictures and get the same complaints and advice, you have to think that maybe their suggestions hold some weight after awhile. We're tired of seeing the beach, you use the same post processing on every photo... and I think the worst part is that they all look the same due to the previous two comments. It doesn't matter that you have a new model; all of your pictures look the same, so what's the point?

Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm a troll and a shit photographer and I should go eat shit.
>> M?e?e?s?e??? !iZn5BCIpug
At first I was like lol dc sucks but then I was like
>>I blew out the background intentionally.
and I was like ?_?
>> Anonymous
Bored, boring model is bored, boring and shitty. Weird colors on her are distracting.

Beethy is right, your old stuff is so much better. Because you were actually shooting people and situations that you knew, that mattered to you, that were personal and that put something into your work that made you one of the better photographers on /p/. Now you're just another hobbyist wanker, with expensive gear shooting just more shots of boring models.

Keep, or rather go back to since you've left it whereever, your old style, including the postprocessing. Some flank of /p/ is going to hate your shit no matter how good or bad it is, get over it and bring back the vignetting and that friend of yours and the great compositions and stop being anal about popular expressions ("90%") and using insults sixth graders who just decided it's O.K. to cuss use, you douchemonkeycockfumblerturdpastrychef you.


>>250023
>Photoshop out the hair going across

No, that's bullshit with no point to it.

>>250007

It's fine at whatever aperture he put it at. Fuck, do you look at pictures taken with lenses made before 1980*? A picture doesn't have to have perfect lens sharpness to be good.

*An illustrative educated guess pulled out of my ass.
>> Depressed Cheesecake !wFh1Fw9wBU
>>250144
Okay. I agree. I don't know how to make the pictures "not boring". I even tried browsing around my favorite photographers. Short of going all Dave LaChapelle, I really can't put spice into my photographs. A writer's block or something? Maybe I just got too caught up with being a gearfag, who fucking knows.
>> Anonymous
>>250144A picture doesn't have to have perfect lens sharpness to be good.

My complaint isn't about the sharpness itself, but rather that there's no though or intent behind how he set his camera. In this situation there's really no reason to be shooting wide open. Yeah, a good photo doesn't need to be razor sharp, but it's not like a bit better contrast and clarity from stopping down to f/1.8-2.0 would HURT his pictures, and then he might have enough DoF to get his entire subject in focus.
>> Anonymous
>>250147
Shoot something interesting. Pretty girls are only interesting in real life. You're fighting a losing battle the minute you start just shooting models standing around.

Like I said, your earlier work was interesting because it was personal. It offered little glimpses of other people's (yours and your friends') characters and lives. People are interesting. And you weren't just some guy sitting behind a nice kit firing away at some model, you were involved in what was going on, and that interest came through in good work.

I'm thinking of a quote from Henri Cartier-Bresson: "Photography is nothing - it's life that interests me."
>> Anonymous
So now that DC is trolling his own threads, can we get him banned for trolling /p/?
>> beethy !vW/UaE6zYU
>>250147
I don't know man. I have periods where I don't even touch my camera for 3 months. But you seem to keep going and going, so maybe you're a little worn out.
I think your street stuff was fucking awesome. Why don't you just go downtown and walk around while shooting whatever you find interesting.
This way you're forcing yourself into an unpredictable situation which should spark your creativity again.
If it fails the first day you go out, go somewhere else next.
Do it!

And if you really want to do the model thing again, just mix it up a little with a huge variety of locations.
Loosen up and get out there.
>> Anonymous
>>250157
solid advice, would follow again!!!!
>> Anonymous
I would suggest these things:

1. If you still want to shoot models, make them try out different poses. Out of the entire batch of photos only one is she not just standing upright.

2. Again, if you're going to shoot models, try a different area other than the beach. You've done enough of the beach, just as I have basically covered every inch of my suburban town. I try and go out somewhere different every time. See if you can drive somewhere for a day or two.

3. Maybe you could try something other than taking photos of models? Anything else that interests you?

We all have blocks sometimes.
>> Anonymous
>>250147Maybe I just got too caught up with being a gearfag, who fucking knows.
What happened to FUCK OFF, JEALOUS POORFAG LOLZ?
>> Anonymous
This actually turned into an interested an informative thread after all the feces at the beginning.

I think the pics are technically OK but the subject matter is lacking. Amature models cant make something from nothing as easily as the pros can (expression/emotion wise) Perhaps if you had gotten her to actually do something, like make a sandcastle or play with a super soaker or SOMETHING is would have actually been interesting, and would have actually gotten some emotion on her face. I can imagine a pic of her head thrown back with laughter as a wave crashes on her sand castle etc, would give the viewer some context/story with the pics.

I love teh backslash ///
>> AEphoto
her face scares me
>> Anonymous
>>250157

Shitty posters offering slightly less shitty posters advice?

PRICELESS!!!
>> Anonymous
is it just me or does she look kind of like a line backer?
this is the first time i have seen a young blonde in a bikini
and not gotten even a chubby...
>> Anonymous
What the fuck do you say to your models at shoots?

is it something like "hey alright, uh just stand right there and like, look at my camera but dont do it with passion just like stare into space and then put your left hand on your hip like you just did in the 10 other shots. WOW okay thats perfect, now just stand there so the sun hits your back and i get some awesome blown highlights. HA HA OH WOW THIS WILL SHOW THOSE 4CHAN PHOTONERDS!!!"

/end w/e that just was
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
While I'm all about the hot girls in bikinis, I have to agree with Beethy that these aren't terribly creative. Just sort of generic (if well done) portfolio shots. Fine if that's what you're going for, I suppose.
>> Anonymous
Nudes! moar! ....oh, I'm not in /b/ anymore =o