i expect to be shot down hard
all shots taken with Nikon S9100, no editing
Horse Cave, KY
Ruby Falls, TN
looking at Chicago from Naperville
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You have good subjects but wholly generic and mediocre quality
>>2812013
thru a window :(
>no editing
Op is my fave so far
>>2812042
excuses :(
>>2812006
Dont believe that no editing is anything to be proud of, or something that any good photographer does.
>>2812008
For example, this photo isnt unedited. The camera changed the way it looked when it went into the camera, Its up to you to mess with it in post to get it to look good.
Its very bland and pedestrian right now, could pop a lot better after editing. Do yourself a favour, pirate lightroom, mess arround with it, learn how to edit and your photography will thankyou for it.
Keep it up senpai
>>2812131
what exactly does that do? i dont want to make alterations or make a false scene with filters and exaggerated colors just to make it more appealing to someone else. if it can help with blurriness or glare that would be about all i'd want to fix
>>2812300
>make a false scene with filters and exaggerated colors
If you over-exaggerate too much it'll possibly look bad.
BUT, after shooting these pictures did you look at them and think, "wow, that was more beautiful in my mind"? The reason is that the camera is incapable of capturing a scene exactly as your brain processed it, in all the glorious detail and colour that the human eyesight allows, and with all the other factors that contributed (smell etc).
The advantage of doing your own editing is that you can attempt to recreate that beauty through careful manipulation of colours and tones and all of the other variables in a photograph.
Or you can attempt to create any other sort of response. Unless you're attempting to produce something purely documentary (which you're probably not), it's absolutely fine to manipulate colours in order to achieve a particular look. After all, the camera is just a dumb machine that collects photons and turns them into squares.
>>2812306
honestly, for these pictures at least, it turned out way better than i expected it to. from normal viewing distance i think they look perfect, but if you zoom in and look closer you can start to see some flaws which idk if i mind it that much really. i dont have the artistic or technological capacity to imagine/design a particular look or feel i want a picture to have beyond actually taking the shot.
>>2812323
Ahhh, but you see - that's exactly the sort of skill you should be developing! That's the difficulty of photography. Operating a camera only takes half an hour to read through the manual.
>>2812328
i dont have a very strong drive to achieve, coupled with an intense phobia of failure... i like photography at the level im at because its easy. i'll never make it to a showroom, sell a picture, or be asked to do a shoot for someone and thats fine by me as long as at least one friend or two likes one of my shots.
Every photo you ever see by anyone worth their salt will have had a fair whack of post production done on it. Someone on my insta said they liked how natural and unedited this looked, even though it took like an hour to make it look natural and unedited. Cameras need a guiding hand to get colours and contrast right, especially a crappy little nikon compact
>>2812381
do you have a before and after?
>>2812018
I really like this one.
>Pics i'm proud of
>no editing
Let me guess, you have no job either because you're to lazy to put in any work?
>>2812042
>i have no software and i feel like messing with nature pics taints them somehow
but that's flawed reasoning since the images that come straight out of your camera aren't true to life in the first place
that's one of the reasons why people edit
to make them closer to the actual scene if they want to
you're just letting the camera's computer assume what was "natural"
and it never, ever is
Bumping this to top so I can see it on PC
>>2812381
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>>2812596
Here's the SOOC JPG (well I put the raw through lightroom with the camera's colour profile set to the one the jpg used, the actual jpg is too big to post here)
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>>2812383
Another before and after, albeit not of a landscape which is ludicrously dramatic. In this, everything was deliberately lit with bright yellow so it was impossible to make out any colours, and I came away from taking it really pissed off that I hadn't managed a good shot
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>>2812609
And I edited it and turned it into this
>>2812604
I should clarify as well that this was in the evening and the colours were a lot warmer than my camera decided.
>>2812417
Those of us who learned with emulsions, chemistry and filters how to 'make' a photograph can only facepalm when we hear/read people thinking they and their camera 'take' perfect pictures. Especially when the results as herein displayed are so meh.
>>2812613
ok so i see your point, and the pre-edited picture i would of course agree isn't that great, its too dim. but looking at my own pictures i'm not sure what i would change about them, i dont see any issues that immediately pop out at me.
>>2812611
You should brighten his face a lot more, as much as possible with still looking good, really. Personally, i like the original that you have. Making it so dark is pretty cliche and boring. The original has a nice colour tone to it and is more interesting to look at. Dial down the colour correction and contrast when you edit it and i think it would look pretty good.
>>2813654
I was just like you at the begining, I had no clue about post processing and thought switching to film would be the easiest way to remove it from shit i had to do, but that isnt the answer either.
Its like a language. Take my advice, download Lightroom, pay for it pirate it, doesnt matter. Just play arround with your photos, look at youtube tutorials and just work to create a photo with good ammounts of light, darkness, colour etc. something closer to the image your eye saw. Its something you really have to do by feel, but it will help you considerably
I wish I had included more from the sky. It looked so frickin' awesome IRL.
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>>2812611
CRUSH THE BLACKS
>>2812347
then don't post on this board. Upload your pictures to facebook and wallow in mediocrity for the rest of your life.
