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Hey, can you guys give me some advice on my photography? I am a beginner and am in a photography class at my college. thanks
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>> Katsu
Almost a 2 meg minimum per pic? I think you should size them down a bit to ease up on the servers. (Did you read the front page?) Anyway, the main criticism I have is the selection of your subjects. In my opinion, black and white photography has a major emphasis on contrast. A relatively small mistake could prove to be unforgiveable.

>>31804
I am immediately focused on the tree to the right though it's not the center focus of the picture.
>>31805
From the thumbnail, I know what I'm looking at, but it all seems to be in the same range of grey... not too interesting.

I do like the first one though (if the left edge was cropped just a bit). =)
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bump. anyone else?
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Where'd you take these pictures? It feels a lot like a museum on a hill outside of LA that I went to as a kid but whose name I can never remember.
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lawlz getty?
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first couple are skirball center, majority are in fact the Getty center, the museum built into the hills in Los Angeles.
>> Hi there! I'm pretty new to photography too but maybe I can help Pudding
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The one major problem I see in your photos is the lack of a coherent composition. Meaning...your center of interest. In the first one it looks like you just snaped a shot of a building. If that way your objective then you certainly achieved it. I may be wrong but was what you were going for the relationships of the horizontal lines on the building and the overall circular shape to the vertical lines of the trees? If so you'd want to eliminate as many of the distractions (like the part of the building with windows and the stair rails) as possible through experimenting with your perspective and heavy croping. A good trick to get you in the mode is to try and find a picture within a picture as you visualize the shot.
>> Pudding
Another thing I noticed was that most of the photos are skewed (not level). If it was not intentional it shouldn't be left like that. Easy fix in photoshop with rotate and croping.
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why are these png?
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STOP BITCHING ABOUT SIZE
>> Anonymous
OP here. thanks for the advice, unfortunately, my teacher is adamant that cropping is a no no. he will slit my throat if i were to do that.
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because large, inconvenient formats make some people feel masculine. it's an abscure fetish. I went through a phase of it, for a while. I psoted all my images as floating-poitn TIFF and .pdf.


in any case, I agree that
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is your best, it's nicely composed, although the contrast is somewhat lacking. conversely, many of your others have great contrast, but are poorly composed. (>>31800)

I like>>31803as well, but It could be imporved if the angle were reduced a little, to bring the top of the building to the top of the frame, so that the trees wouldn't cut the image in half.

If you haven't already heard it, a good rule of thumb for composer is the rule of thirds. try to make your images 1/3 or 2/3 sky, never 1/2. put distant subjects 1/3 or 2/3 across the image, let a portrait face take up 2/3.

thirds are attractive. google "rule of thirds" to see come more concrete examples.
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thanks, that helps a lot!
>> Rawr !pBDDkuoH3.
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No. Do you have any idea how long it takes to download these? In my case, the first picture took over a minute to load. OVER A FUCKING MINUTE. WHY? BECAUSE A FUCKING PHOTO THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN 300KB WAS IN FACT 2.3MB.

It's absolutly rediculous that the poster is either too lazy to be bothered to convert to JPEG, or arrogant to think that JPEG will somehow damage his precious work. News flash: 99% of you couldn't tell the difference between a 90% JPEG and a PNG, or JPEG artifacts and camera sensor noise...99% of you are shooting in JPEG ANYWAY...


...and the JPEG would be a fraction of the size of the PNGs you fucktards are posting here.
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Example. Here's the OP's picture, compressed at maximum quality JPEG setting with subsampling turned off.

HOW THE FUCK ABOUT THAT! ONE QUARTER OF THE SIZE.
>> Anonymous
These are boring, here's why: In the shots you have taken, something about the building has interested you enough to take a photo, but you really need to spend a lot more time thinking about what exactly caught your eye, you need to understand it, focus on it, make it the centrepiece of a well-considered composition.

The difference is between thinking, "Oh, interesting *SNAP*" and, "Oh, interesting. Why?"

Also, I'm only going on the thumbnails here: I don't care about your photographs enough to spend ages downloading them in pixel-perfect PNG renditions.

Most of all though, DO NOT STOP TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS. These shots are ALMOST interesting, you just need to think more, put effort into making them excellent photographs.
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thanks for advice one again. i guess i need to spend more time on thinking why the scene is interesting. and i dont plan on stopping taking pics, i like it a lot.

ps. stop bitching about size. it wouldnt let me convert to jpg for some reason.
>> Katsu
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Size is important, especially with the increased traffic on 4chan in general. Does having a larger sized picture enhance the composition of your picture at all? Does it make it any better than the same picture that is resized to 3/4 of its original size? I am not proposing that making it as small as possible is the best solution either. However, I feel that if you are able to upload a picture of a reasonable size, then other Anonymous people will be more likely to view your picture and also will leave criticism as well. In a sense, it is a mutual benefit to you and the site that you do decrease the size of your pictures.

There are free tools that allow you to resize and convert to different image formats online. Reliable ones are Irfanview and Gimp.