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Postby MHD on Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:40 pm

I was taking pictures of a college function (my goal is to get enough good images that one day the powers that be actually pay me to do it (and the MORE LENSES!))

I was trying to get pictures of the crowd and from my experinces the detail on these images usually ends up to small to make the images stand out much...
But then the light started doing funky things... and I experimented...
do you think it worked??
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Postby MHD on Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:42 pm

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one thing I can pick already is I should have shut the apeture down a bit more
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Postby bago100 on Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:51 pm

Hi MHD

Yep - I think you have something here. Look at the bearded guy sitting on the table for example.
It is a nice shot of humans in a very social setting.
Mind you, if you added in a couple of cartons of Coopers Sparkling, there might have been a bit more social setting :D
I like the width of the photograph but not the digger in the backgound.
Did you use your 70 - 300 lens? No-one seems to have noticed you taking the picture at all.
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Postby ajo43 on Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:53 pm

I do like the light on the back of the hair. Makes thinks look kind of 3d.

I think it is a bit busy to really tell a story about the occasion. Maybe if you were closer to the subjects?
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Postby MHD on Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:19 pm

yeah,,, I was trying to capture the crowd though...

I'm finding it a hard subject to master...
When I saw the light I went for the bushes you see in the FG to try to frame the picture a bit and give it a bit of depth...

the further I get into photography the more I learn that no amount of PP can beat getting the image right in the first place!
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Postby Raydar on Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:12 am

Love the halo effect you captured there :D

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Postby birddog114 on Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:15 am

I saw Raydar's toy in the background.
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Postby Raydar on Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:23 am

Birddog114 wrote:I saw Raydar's toy in the background.
 LOL :lol:
I was going to make a coment on that but left it alone.

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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:05 am

Hi MHD

My 2¢ worth (I like the atmos) would have been to shoot the crowd up or down, i.e. higher or lower viewpoint.

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Postby Vicareyus on Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:47 pm

The halo effect is good. I would crop out the digger though - close crop to just above the heads of the crowd - would draw your focus more to the crowd also. Would leave the foreground as is tho.
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Postby MHD on Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:49 pm

hehe... yeah.. damn practical backgrounds :)
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