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Lynx !!KY+lVSl0s2m
see it, shat, bricks, etc.
I realize how much this pic sucks, in my defense..... I suck at photography. And this is the actual christmas card my family is sending out.
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>> else !L6xabslN96
>>99877
whats with all the "bloom" effect and blurriness?

and how did u get an ISO of 1250 on a d40?
>> Lynx !!KY+lVSl0s2m
>>99881
I was trying to figure out how that happened. I've been on painkillers from my car accident for a week, I'm not sure what I did. Was shooting raw, AP mode, iso 400. I was not pleased with any of the pics that came out. I softened it to make it a little less obvious where i shooped it. This is gonna be on 3.5x5 prints.
>> harro
you realize they all look like they were underlit, which is pretty much the most unflattering place to put lighting.

haha... also the older guy (dad?) is looking away, and all the rest of the people have CRAZY AWKWARD SMILES...

(the girl all the way on the left is cute, but man, the lighting and awkwardness isn't helping)

also the colors are really off feeling. very yellow and reddish...
(I'm sure you can fix that with some post processing though)

might want to just re take this one?
>> Anonymous
bricks were shat.
cute girls btw. wouldn't mind greeting them with my oblivion, if you catch my drift.
>> Anonymous
At 100% I see the girl in the red sweaters eyes match your shirt... by being checkerboard patterned too.

Don't worry. No one cares about the family pics they get on greeting cards.
>> Anonymous
Better that its in focus, worse that its a) distractingly tilted, and b) not as interesting of a subject.

Proper faucet photography requires the following..

Subject in focus and properly exposed... no distracting elements (weird tilts can be distracting)

Once there, for composition, you want to emphasize whats interesting about the subject... particularly faucets. What little I find interesting is that a) they stick out of the wall, b) water emits from them, and c) they often have an interesting organic shape and texture... being made of corroded metals more often than not.

You can up the contract between textures or colors, emphasize those. A shadow can really give a sense of depth and make the composition more interesting. Some angles make you see the subject in a new way... while others simply point out that you are looking at a tilted photograph.

Imagine, for a simple exercise, all of the ways one can see a faucet. Change the colors in your minds eye, the shape, the shape of the drops falling from it, etc... you could do high contract black and white, long shadows, even shadow of the water drops on the wall.

I'm really going on about this aren't I... and on such a stupid subject...

Check this out for inspiration....

http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&q=faucet&m=text

Also you can search gettyimages for a ton of ideas.
>> Anonymous
>>99899

k thx
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
brix shat (even though you can see it in the thumbnail)
>> Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM
I don't get why there's a vaseline on the lens effect. Your family are easy on the eye... why do they need to fee like Barbara Walters?
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
>>99884
If it was on auto iso, it can pick weird in-between settings.