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ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
People keep telling me they really like this shot. So I've decided to post it.
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>> Anonymous
This is great win. Simple and obvious, yes, but so is, say, taking a picture of a Vietnamese general blowing a guy's brains out right in front of you.
>> Anonymous
um no. this is an example of something you would want to avoid doing. like having a fountain coming out from right behind someones head or something. these 'people' must be a bunch of kids.
>> sage !i/euDJmWr2
I said "neat" when I looked at it. otherwise kind of boring
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>164834
>this is an example of something you would want to avoid doing. like having a fountain coming out from right behind someones head or something.
No, see, they tell you not to do that *accidentally*. The look of the moon trapped in the light pole was exactly what I was going for here.

>>164845
Yeah, that's how I felt about it. But completely unbiased people (i.e., my girlfriend, a coworker of mine who requires my approval any time he wants to submit any code to the source reposity, and an anonymous poster who very well might actually be me without my tripcode) liked it, so I thought I'd go ahead and post.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>164853

cool, just wish it was centered a little more.
>> Anonymous
>>164834
I like this sort of thing. It usually doesn't work, but when it does, it makes the photograph, and I'm just interested in getting made photographs, not dozens of unobjectionable but not good ones.

This one is nice and simple, very quiet but great, sort of like that canoe picture Sam Abell did.

(>>164828here.)
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
It doesn't exactly last, but it's creative and you've got it lined up so it actually looks like something. So yeah, "neat".
>> Anonymous
>>164853
why does it matter whether or not you did it on purpose. how does the image look any different?

the point is that this isnt good or interesting, its just gimmicky. and not even a good gimmick.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>164869
Because you were telling me the rule like it's some fundamental rule of photography. Like you were saying "Don't frame things so it looks like two far away things are joined" is a rule like "don't stick your finger in the mirror box."

Basically, if you think it's a bad picture, that's perfectly understandable. But it's not like it would be a better picture if the moon weren't trapped in the crook of the light pole, which is what it sounded like you were saying.
>> EvenSteven !!RBDL+S5h60X
It's off center so it sucks balls and so do you.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
Moon vice, interesting. Reminds me of the funny sort of street stuff Elliott Erwitt did. This is nice, though I'd like to see it in black and white. The color's not really workin for you here.
>> Anonymous
>>164874
I like the off center.
>> Anonymous
>>164872
thats the thing though, it is sort of a fundamental rule of photography. i mean, of course youre going to have things intersecting in a photo but when two main objects in a photo are joining in a really unnatural looking way youre coming out with nothing more than purposely bending the rules for the sake of bending the rules.

im not saying it would be a better picture if it wasnt framed that way. i think its a dud picture either way.
>> Anonymous
>>164881
What, like the rule of thirds?
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
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Here's some pictures I took on the same day that I think are more interesting.

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>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
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Been taking a lot of pictures of dead animals lately.

(This dead fish was much, much smaller than the last one)

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>> Blackadder !!bSWRwu/NqzQ
>>164946Been taking a lot of pictures of dead animals lately.

Sort of weird and creepy. I am hoping you aren't going around slaying them first?
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
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And a boring sunset shot.

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>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>164949
No, of course not.

I'm paying hobos to do it while I watch and jerk off.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>164951

I like this one! boring sunset shot or not.
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
>>164951
Cliche, of course, boring, no.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>164972

is this a random post a shot you took recently thread now?
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
>>164973
It would fit the whimsical nature of the original post. :P
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
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>>164983

Thread hijack, then!

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>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
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and a pair of legs

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>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
>>164987
Ooh, random body parts. Who's that?
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>164988

asian model i shot today.
>> Anonymous
>>164951
>>164946
>>164945

OP beats all of these, which all look kinda snapshotty, although a project on dead animals sounds interesting. But the OP makes me smile every time I look at it.
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
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>>164973
Okay, random. Now I just need a subject.

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>> Anonymous
>>165004
i like
>> Anonymous
>>165012
a little too underexposed for my liking..
up the exposure or go HDR
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
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>>165026
Brighter exposure.

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>> Anonymous
>>165036
liked the first. had a eerie, ominous feeling to oit.