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Was out eating lunch with some friends today and spotted this dame at a nearby table, snuck out my camera and got a pair of (what I think anyway) are some really nice shots.

Some C&C would be appreciated, hopefully making me better prepared the next time I start taking candids over lunch. And ye, a faster lens like a 100mm 2.8 would have been gold, as it was I only had my 28-105mm on hand.

inb4 B&W insta art HURRRRRR, lighting was shit and there wasn't any colour to speak of anyway.
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>> Anonymous
I don't like the composition. Eyes and/or face should point to the open space or the camera. I would like this if the gurrl was on the left.
>> Dre-Gon
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>> i - !EoFJjFcCco
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>>256582

Here's the second one.

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>> Anonymous
>>256585
A lot better!
>> NatureGuy !se3A3TwzdY
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I really rather like them, the second more however. Consider softening the noise with the noise reducer or by hand (to preserve detail) with the blur tool. Ran the noise reducers twice over it. Gives it weird soft look to it.

I think there's a good very good photo in it, but it would require some photoshop work to push to a more surreal level.

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>> i - !EoFJjFcCco
>>256604

Used noise ninja on her face, not too much tho, wanted to preserve much of the noise since it adds a bit of character to the shots, and there's too much of it for you to be able to remove it effectively.
>> Anonymous
1) She's nothing special.

2) FILM GRAIN ? NOISE YOU SHITHEADS
>> Anonymous
>>256619
Serious business: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1449173
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>256604
This made it look weird and overly smooth. More like a painting than a picture. Do not want.
>> NatureGuy !se3A3TwzdY
>>256640
>>More like a painting than a picture.
What's wrong with that?
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>256646
I tend to think that photographs should look photographic?
>> Anonymous
>>256640
>This made it look weird and overly smooth. More like a painting than a picture. Do not want.

I agree with AC 100%, which feels really strange.

I'm beginning to suspect that he may not be in the same SHIT TIER as other tripfag trolls like DC and Beethy.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>256658
I like to think that I'm in a shit tier all my own.
>> Anonymous
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>>256585
quite like it, though im having some trouble with that roof at the top. cropped it out a bit and personally think it's much better to the eye this way, the original left my eye wandering about a bit too much

>>256604
dude wtf
>> Anonymous
>>256604
shouldn't you be bi'ing it up with boys and girls instead of ruining peoples pictures?

With the criticism in Vincents thread, and with this, Natureguy seems to be inching to the bottom of the totem pole. Did someone find his tripcode laying around or what?
>> Anonymous
>>256604
or he could have just shot with a meniscus lens to get the same effect.

HELLO KODAK BOX BROWNIE.
>> i - !EoFJjFcCco
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>>256677

I see what you did there, and I like it
>> i - !EoFJjFcCco
>>256707

wrong pic, disregard it
>> soulr !lK4GD5SleY
>>256604
you are joking right? you like..destroyed it...there wasn't much to destroy either way...
>> Anonymous
>>256677
this also emphasizes the space on the left more, which is after all where she's looking at
>> beethy !vW/UaE6zYU
>>256585
win!!

>>256604
i like you natureguy but NO NO NO NO NO NO
>> Anonymous
>>256563
This is great, in a literal sense, the composition, the lighting on her, the facial expression with all its emotion, the guy in the background... I don't know why you think a faster lens would've helped this, backgrounds make pictures.

>>256585
This is run of the mill, inferior in every way.

>>256604
This is shit, and you're too intelligent, NatureGuy, to confuse stylized and expressive with "surreal."

>>256677
This is better than the source image, but it's still very... not cliche, that's the wrong word, but it's the one that keeps coming to mind about that.
>> Anonymous
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I'm just gonna leave this here..