Official Unofficial Picture Thread

[soymilk]

pastry place the clown was from..

[soymilk]

burger joint that serves alcohol in the milk shakes

[barrettsline]

DELETE that thing!!

[eklikewhoa]

That's creepy looking.

[soymilk]

For a bunch of guys y'all sure do like taking pictures of flowers



For whatever reason, clowns scare the crap outta me

[eklikewhoa]

[eklikewhoa]

Taken with my baller Canon SD800is

[ssrprelude]

Took this at whataburger, what a cool flower.

Thats a bottle brush. Great shot, focus point is off a little bit.

[soymilk]

So I got bored and recreated some pics I took 3 years ago. One is taken with a sony a700 +16-80mm Carl zeiss. The other was taken with a canon 5dmkii + 24-105mm L. Pretty darn close

P.s. this was in Vegas. Venetian hotel lobby

[myjohnson]

My next thing is bokeh. I been using my 60/2.8 but it's nothing like the nikkor cream machine.

Only b/c you asked for criticism....remember this is coming from someone with no formal training in the area.

1) Your main image should, 99% of the time, be in focus and be the foreground. Notice how you have some foreground out of focus in the bottle right hand corner? Pictures with the foreground in focus are easier to look at b/c our eyes naturally focus on the objection closest to us.

2) The red flower is a bit out of focus compare to the stock part of the plant with the leaves. I would focus on the red flower part. Not only b/c that's normally the best part of a flower, but in your picture it is also following the golden ratio.

3) Look for the light source. It looks like the sun is on the upper right hand side. This will cast shadows on your image. If it's an effect your going for then good, but if not you want to be aware of it. In this particular shot, I would have picked a flower with the sun facing it. If none exist then I would use a flash.

There are some other things you can do inside of photoshop to make the image pop like changing contrast and saturation...but some people think that's cheating.

lol, aside from all that picture looks great! :)

[cichlid1409]

not really, but the lens I was using doesn't really have a large enough aperture for great bokeh. I thought this one turned out pretty good. Do you have any criticisms? I enjoy helpful tips.

[myjohnson]

You ever try working on bokeh shots?

[cichlid1409]

Took this at whataburger, what a cool flower.

[cichlid1409]

[eklikewhoa]

Damn! some mad talent and high dollar gear going on here.