Since it's Christmas, it's finally time to stop gearfagging
First up, some attempts at processing everything with the in-camera RAW converter, even the cropping.
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>>2729197
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>>2729198
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>>2729201
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Camera-Specific Properties: Equipment Make NIKON CORPORATION Camera Model NIKON D750 Camera Software Ver.1.10 Photographer Alex Suen Maximum Lens Aperture f/1.7 Sensing Method One-Chip Color Area Color Filter Array Pattern 980 Focal Length (35mm Equiv) 50 mm Image-Specific Properties: Image Orientation Top, Left-Hand Horizontal Resolution 72 dpi Vertical Resolution 72 dpi Image Created 2015:12:24 20:25:05 Exposure Time 1/60 sec F-Number f/1.8 Exposure Program Manual ISO Speed Rating 3600 Exposure Bias -1 EV Metering Mode Other Light Source Cool White Fluorescent Flash No Flash, Compulsory Focal Length 50.00 mm Color Space Information sRGB Image Width 3008 Image Height 2008 Rendering Normal Exposure Mode Manual White Balance Manual Scene Capture Type Standard Gain Control High Gain Up Contrast Hard Saturation High Sharpness Normal Subject Distance Range Unknown
>>2729203
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Camera-Specific Properties: Equipment Make NIKON CORPORATION Camera Model NIKON D750 Camera Software Ver.1.10 Photographer Alex Suen Maximum Lens Aperture f/4.0 Sensing Method One-Chip Color Area Color Filter Array Pattern 980 Focal Length (35mm Equiv) 65 mm Image-Specific Properties: Image Orientation Top, Left-Hand Horizontal Resolution 72 dpi Vertical Resolution 72 dpi Image Created 2015:12:24 23:56:30 Exposure Time 1/50 sec F-Number f/4.0 Exposure Program Manual ISO Speed Rating 5000 Exposure Bias 0 EV Metering Mode Other Light Source Unknown Flash No Flash, Compulsory Focal Length 65.00 mm Color Space Information sRGB Image Width 2560 Image Height 1704 Rendering Normal Exposure Mode Manual White Balance Auto Scene Capture Type Standard Gain Control High Gain Up Contrast Normal Saturation Normal Sharpness Normal Subject Distance Range Unknown
>>2729204
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>>2729205
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>>2729206
Let's try astro with the kit lens
>ok
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>>2729211
Let's drive out for some more astro
>Tripod head can't support 25s exposures in portrait orientation with soft ground
Welp
>>2729213
tfw snowless December in Canada
I want to freeze my balls off
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>>2729216
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Camera-Specific Properties: Equipment Make NIKON CORPORATION Camera Model NIKON D750 Camera Software Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.1 (Windows) Photographer Alex Suen Maximum Lens Aperture f/1.7 Sensing Method One-Chip Color Area Color Filter Array Pattern 824 Focal Length (35mm Equiv) 20 mm Image-Specific Properties: Image Orientation Top, Left-Hand Horizontal Resolution 72 dpi Vertical Resolution 72 dpi Image Created 2015:08:29 01:27:12 Exposure Time 1/640 sec F-Number f/8.0 Exposure Program Aperture Priority ISO Speed Rating 100 Lens Aperture f/8.0 Exposure Bias 0 EV Metering Mode Pattern Light Source Unknown Flash No Flash, Compulsory Focal Length 20.00 mm Rendering Normal Exposure Mode Auto White Balance Auto Scene Capture Type Standard Gain Control None Contrast Normal Saturation Normal Sharpness Normal Subject Distance Range Unknown
>>2729218
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Camera-Specific Properties: Equipment Make NIKON CORPORATION Camera Model NIKON D750 Camera Software Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Windows) Photographer Alex Suen Maximum Lens Aperture f/1.7 Sensing Method One-Chip Color Area Color Filter Array Pattern 772 Focal Length (35mm Equiv) 85 mm Image-Specific Properties: Horizontal Resolution 72 dpi Vertical Resolution 72 dpi Image Created 2015:06:29 16:19:44 Exposure Time 5 sec F-Number f/11.0 Exposure Program Manual ISO Speed Rating 200 Lens Aperture f/11.0 Exposure Bias -1.3 EV Metering Mode Other Light Source Unknown Flash No Flash, Compulsory Focal Length 85.00 mm Rendering Custom Exposure Mode Manual White Balance Auto Scene Capture Type Standard Gain Control None Contrast Normal Saturation Normal Sharpness Normal Subject Distance Range Unknown
>>2729221
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That's it for now, and as always, C&C is appreciated
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>>2729197
There's no color.
>>2729198
Cropped out the subject.
>>2729201
Off-center.
>>2729203
Crooked.
>>2729204
Subjects aren't looking at the camera.
>>2729205
Off-center.
>>2729206
Subject isn't looking at the camera.
>>2729211
Can't see the trees.
>>2729213
You aren't supposed to see this many stars.
>>2729216
Good.
>>2729218
Road is crooked, not pointed at the subjects.
>>2729221
Clouds aren't brown, lightning isn't purple.
>>2729222
Too many subjects.
>>2729225
Subject is broken.
Oh look, another shit thread by a tripfag. This one's almost as bad as isi's.
>>2729232
I appreciate you
Fuck you fine I'll post here.
>>2729197
This is not a great OP photo selection. It's really a nothing photo. It's a "I'm learning composition and saw a way to compose on the thirds" shot. The subjects are obvious, but very boring, and the block on the bottom left makes it sloppy, as well as boring and simple. B&W doesn't add much, but I can't think of anything that color would add.
>>2729198
This one is a bit strange. The leg looks like an action figure leg, which, gives my brain a scale, but then the water bottle throws it off. It's not the most interesting photo in the world, but I definitely see why you took it. Better processing might have polished it up a bit, but the only way it'll stand is in a group, rather than on its own. Maybe something about the weird streets, or something. whatever. you get it.
>>2729201
Poorly lit, poorly processed, and very strangely composed. Why did you include so much of the wall on the left? My mind desperately wants to turn a few degrees to the right. Also, potentially portrait oriented, as the height seems more important than the width, to me.
>>2729203
Sloppy, poorly composed, very boring, bad light, bad processing. This is a "i want to use my camera, can I force a photo" shot, rather than "oh shit let me get my camera out!" shot.
>>2729204
>>2729205
Uhh, you may want to send your camera in for service. It's firing off the shutter at random. Worse yet, it's also posting them to the internet under your name.
>>2729206
I get it, sort of, but it needs a lot better light, and a lot better processing. There's a pretty serious theme of "I didn't process these very well" going on here.
>>2729211
>>2729213
ooh astro! Nice! No relevant foreground, but it's pretty nicely executed. I'd be happy to have taken these personally, but more as a proof of concept, and a rite of passage as a photographer, rather than anything artistically valuable. Either way, neat.
>>2729216
Did you take this on your phone? Where's your subject? Why am I looking at this? It's obviously a cool place to have been, but what's interesting or communicative about the photo?
>>2729218
Very isi meets Alex, but without the soul of either. It's another one where, I get it, but it's not really a good photo. Also, your sky is a bit of a funky unnatural color. Not bad, but noticeable.
>>2729221
Processing is weak again. The sky needs to be cranked WAY up if you want it to carry the weight of 2/3rds of the photo. Lightning is obviously way cool, so nicely done there, and the balance of the photo is surprisingly okay, considering how small the city looks, but still, the clouds look almost cell phone quality.
>>2729222
Again, I get why you took it, but there's nothing to make it stand out. it's just a pretty place. It would take an additional subject, like a dead dolphin, or a model, or spectacular light, to make it a great photo, as well as a great location, and you don't have that. The neon greens don't help either, and they make it seem very amateur. An experienced photographer processing the way he should would notice the extra cyan in the greens, and handle it accordingly.
>>2729225
Yet another good setting, begging for a "moment". Some light, or weather, or extra decay... something. It's very busy looking as well, but isn't processed in a way to play to that. Maybe a well approached B&W conversion would make it more successful, because it really is neat. The completely standard composition and perspective is also dramatically weakening the photo.
Work on changing up your approach. You have the technique down well, which is to be expected, but the artistry, and the "eye" that makes you more than just a GWC aren't showing in these. You're standing at 5.5ft tall, shooting directly at something that looks sort of neat in person, rather than finding the best way to be creative or innovative. Maybe it's your style, but it's not convincing.
>>2729305
<3<3
I won't defend any of it other than what we've already discussed. re: processing the construction site shot and portrait framing, have a gander at this:
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>>2729232
>There's no color.
>Can't see the trees.
It's clear you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about.
>>2729197
Is that Kirk "Wah-Wah" Hammett?
>>2729339
He's obviously joking...
These are not very good.
Many of them look like you just carried around a camera and fired the shutter at random. No subject and no composition. This is what I think of when I see that terribly overused word "snapshits."
They just don't look like you even tried at all and I think that matters a lot more than processing.
Theres no pretty, gloomy looking girls, no forests with nice lightning, not even a field of wheat in any of your shots anon. try reframing a bit, see if you get the model in the frame next time.
try also showing up at the same places as your model!
hope these few tips helps you improve your photography
