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Pics for my photo course assignment
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:49 pmby stubbsy
Re: Pics for my photo course assignment
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:12 pmby gleff
stubbsy wrote:I'm doing an introduction to photography course at the moment and have just completed our photo assignment (take shots of certain types for a tourist brochure). Below are some thumbnails of my favourites. To see the large version, click the thumbnail. I'd appreciate your comments - you can be brutal I can take it
Holy Crap.. Those are some nice shots. May I ask where the photography course is? I'd be interested in doing it, if that's the kind of outcome you can expect
Geoff
Re: Pics for my photo course assignment
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:28 pmby stubbsy
gleff wrote:stubbsy wrote:I'm doing an introduction to photography course at the moment and have just completed our photo assignment (take shots of certain types for a tourist brochure). Below are some thumbnails of my favourites. To see the large version, click the thumbnail. I'd appreciate your comments - you can be brutal I can take it
Holy Crap.. Those are some nice shots. May I ask where the photography course is? I'd be interested in doing it, if that's the kind of outcome you can expect
Geoff
Geoff
Thanks for the compliment.
I hate to disappoint. The course was very basic. The most benefit I got was on the technical side - things like DOF & apertures & fstops etc which I didn't really understand before plus rules of composition & the like. I went with 2 friends whose pics aren't coming out anywhere near mine. My guess is I'm just lucky cos I have a knack for the shot. Downside is I've just discovered photography (picked up my first camera 4 years ago & I'm 49
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FWIW the course was in Newcastle at the Hunter Region School of Photography 2 hours per week for 6 weeks.
edit: And I have good quality glass - a lot of the shots were taken with the 70-200 VR. ALL shots were hand held
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:34 pmby Wombat124
A good eye, combined with good equipment, produces good images.
These are very good.
Steve
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:36 pmby sirhc55
Hi Peter - taking into account the reasons behind these photos I would personally pick #1 for atmosphere, #5, #6, #7 and #11 plus one beach scene - what appears to be missing, if this is for a travel brochure, would be pics of the city.
I do like you pics
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:17 pmby stubbsy
Steve thanks for the comment - mostly it feels like I only have 1 good eye and 2 would be better
sirhc55 wrote:Hi Peter - taking into account the reasons behind these photos I would personally pick #1 for atmosphere, #5, #6, #7 and #11 plus one beach scene - what appears to be missing, if this is for a travel brochure, would be pics of the city.
Chris thanks for the detailed appraisal. Interestingly we were told what places to shoot from and none of them allowed for city shots (except for the one distance shot of the city skyline in the last link)
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:39 pmby Matt. K
Hi Peter!
You got some nice work there! In fact...you don't need to do the course. Just one thing...repeat after me..."There are NO rules in composition. That's very important! The moment you accept restrictions and rules in the way you compose your imagery you are heading for mediocrity.
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:58 pmby stubbsy
Matt. K wrote:Hi Peter!
You got some nice work there! In fact...you don't need to do the course. Just one thing...repeat after me..."There are NO rules in composition. That's very important! The moment you accept restrictions and rules in the way you compose your imagery you are heading for mediocrity.
Matt
Thanks for the feedback. Rules in composition went out the window when he said the only way to get a good shot was rule of thirds since, like someone else around here,
I think neat and in the middle can work too or untidy and on the edge even (hmmm. sometimes I even feel that way
)
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:05 pmby stormygirl
These are magnificent shots!
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:10 pmby Glen
Stubbsy, don't be surprised if your instructor comes up to you and says "the real reason of this exercise is..... can we buy some of your shots for the brochure?" They are good.
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:14 pmby stubbsy
Glen wrote:Stubbsy, don't be surprised if your instructor comes up to you and says "the real reason of this exercise is..... can we buy some of your shots for the brochure?" They are good.
In my fantsasies maybe (speaking of which he's been lusting over my 70-200 VR ever since I flashed it at him).
As an interesting aside - the more I look at these shots the less good I feel they are even though some of them (the volleyball player & the guy on the bench looking at the frogpond are good examples) blew me away when I saw them on screen the first time since they both came out of the camera the way I planned when I took them. Does this happen to anyone else (ie you get a bit jaded with your own work on repeated exposure)?
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:18 pmby Glen
It definitely happens to me, but then with my lack of quality it would.
I think that you often like a shot when you see it, then if you raise the bar later in the shoot, you are dissapointed they all weren't better.
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:40 pmby sirhc55
Peter - very interesting that the city was not included in a shoot for a Newcastle brochure (I assume Newcastle).
Shots out of the camera - I would say around 80% straight off unless it is macro and then it goes down to 20%
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:45 pmby stubbsy
sirhc55 wrote:Peter - very interesting that the city was not included in a shoot for a Newcastle brochure (I assume Newcastle).
Chris
I thought so too. We went to the marina near the Fisherman's co-op and had to take fishing fleet, boat and bridge shots (nearby bridge & footbridge) then on to Nobby's Beach (at the end of Newcastle) where we had to take a beach scene then onto the harbour foreshore where we had to shoot a park bench, a fountain, a tug boat and a tap (
) Although, to be fair, I think the idea was to stimulate people's creativity.
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Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:04 pmby leek
Stubbsy,
Is it just me, or do your thumbnails point to totally different photos - in fact to a slideshow...???
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Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:15 amby stubbsy
leek wrote:Stubbsy,
Is it just me, or do your thumbnails point to totally different photos - in fact to a slideshow...???
John
It's just you. One of the style options at the top of the screen in smugmug is Slide Show & this setting persists between sessions. Just change this to Elegant & you're in business
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Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:00 pmby flipfrog
impressive work!
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Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:39 pmby stubbsy
Thanks for the compliments Dee. Just back from my course & I got quite a few comments from the others on the course.
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Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:43 pmby birddog114
stubbsy wrote:Thanks for the compliments Dee. Just back from my course & I got quite a few comments from the others on the course.
what did you pick up tonight from that lady instructor?
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Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:58 pmby stubbsy
Birddog114 wrote:stubbsy wrote:Thanks for the compliments Dee. Just back from my course & I got quite a few comments from the others on the course.
what did you pick up tonight from that lady instructor?
Nothing drugs can't cure
But seriously, they didn't have a lot to say about my shots other than to say they knew they were obviously taken with Nikon & they then proceeeded to praise the four shots I thought were the worst shots
One of the others on the course had the date on every photo and about half were on an angle - nothing was said about the date, but the instructor commented the lady needed to get her tripod fixed!
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Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:43 amby kurokaze204
Great shots stubbsy. The Pelican blows me away. On my trip to Merimbula at Christmas I tried to get some water shots like that but just couldn't quite get it.
What was the sky like, do you remember?
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Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:58 amby stubbsy
kurokaze204 wrote:Great shots stubbsy. The Pelican blows me away. On my trip to Merimbula at Christmas I tried to get some water shots like that but just couldn't quite get it.
What was the sky like, do you remember?
Sure do - it was last Saturday. It was a miserable overcast day with quite a lot of cloud cover and no sun in sight. It bucketed down rain about an hour after this shot.
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