The Photography Society

OP

to be honest, no.

i really enjoyed it at school, but it's totally different at college. everything goes so much deeper and you will spend a long time developing one skill.

i'd wait and see who else replies, because obvioulsy my experience was terrible.

Reply 83

imoan

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mmm yeah that sounds like my fine art course. to be honest. everyone hated it. Had nooo structure yet they wanted you to be very exact in what you did. made no sense. they were crap teachers.....

i have some new pictures....will upload some soon. they arent that interesting lol....but i like them.

Reply 84

OP

i have some pictures on the page before, i don't think anyone has noticed them though.

Reply 85

imoan

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oh sorry! Ill go look now lol. I just went last page on the subscription thingy and assumed id read all the last few posts!

Reply 86

OP

it's fine! not your fault.

i found this one too:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/58hampshire05.jpg

it would have been much better if it wasn't so blurry, which is a shame, but that is one hell of a spider!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/15jack.jpg

Reply 87

Mangaroo

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quite cool pumpkin7

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/walkingpathsmudgebw.jpg

Reply 88

imoan

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The one of the sky is really nice, i like. And that spider, thats pretty wicked as u say...shame about the blurring though :frown:

I think you need to get yourself a mint camera now lol....see what a difference itll make. Its rather suprising i must say, from what i do on a mini digi to my digi slr. Though you can still do some good work with compacts, SLRs just give you that more to play with lol!

Reply 89

pumpkin7

it's fine! not your fault.

i found this one too:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/58hampshire05.jpg

it would have been much better if it wasn't so blurry, which is a shame, but that is one hell of a spider!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/15jack.jpg

Did you have your eyes closed when taking the first one?

The second one is ok, would be better if you cropped a bit off the bottom, drawing the attention more to the face, as at the moment the large area of white in the forgorund acts as the focal point.

Reply 90

Mangaroo

quite cool pumpkin7

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/walkingpathsmudgebw.jpg

Not sure what effect you (pumpkin) were going for here but it looks very cheap.

Reply 91

OP

uhm, no? why would i close my eyes you fool?

i think i had the camera on the wrong setting, and i didn't want to get particularly close to the spider.. so. and i believe my boyfriend was hiding behind me too, so kept knocking me.

i thought the one of my cat is fine because his front paw isn't in focus, so you look straight at his face anyway, because that is in focus.

so thank you for your critisism, but it wasn't really needed. i know the first picture is blurry, so there is no need to point it out. give us a bit more credit than that thanks.

Reply 92

OP

Original post by Fluent &#953

Not sure what effect you were going for here but it looks very cheap. Especially compared to your other stuff.

that was for an art project, so i was just playing around with my settings and thought it looked ok.

but you know, please continue to not like anything i produce.

Reply 93

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/thesky.jpg
Very very boring.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/PIC_0055.jpg
Overexposed and boring.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/bushandsky.jpg
Slightly less boring.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/11london05.jpg
Quite nice. A better dynamic range would improve it a lot, but that's down to the camera. Also without the cables on the left and if there gull were slightly further from the wheel.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/walkingpathsmudgebw.jpg
see above

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/meandtomsunlight.jpg
You didn't pull it off.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/swazzle2000/mytommeh.jpg
just no.

Basically I think you could get some much better shots with some more interesting subjects.

Reply 94

pumpkin7

uhm, no? why would i close my eyes you fool?

i think i had the camera on the wrong setting, and i didn't want to get particularly close to the spider.. so. and i believe my boyfriend was hiding behind me too, so kept knocking me.

i thought the one of my cat is fine because his front paw isn't in focus, so you look straight at his face anyway, because that is in focus.

so thank you for your critisism, but it wasn't really needed. i know the first picture is blurry, so there is no need to point it out. give us a bit more credit than that thanks.

Any reason for posting it if you know it's crap? :smile:

Reply 95

OP

the sunlight one i didn't pull off? why not? that's a lovely shot.
and the one of my tom is just there for viewing pleasure, not to be a particularly interesting shot. it was taken with a webcam for a start.. screenshotting on msn. it's not meant to be good.
i really don't see why you have to analyze all my shots when you aren't even in this society.

Reply 96

Mangaroo

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i think Fluent in lies woke up in a mean mood today

Reply 97

Well I figured thats why you posted them! :smile:

And if you like them all and don't think they can be improved then that's great, and I guess someone might want to see a webcam snap of your tom.

I still don't quite inderstand this concept of deliberately taking poor quality pictures and then posting them here but that is up to you. And if you are just using this as a 'snapshot' gallery then thats cool too. I just figured that this soc was here for people to improve their photography.

Reply 98

Mangaroo

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Just saw one of your sketches FluentIL, really impressive actually

..and to complete the changing of the subject..

http://k43.pbase.com/g3/77/639177/2/57714882.Guccicopy.jpg

..probbly should have cleaned the window first :smile:

tip! a photo that might initially be seen as pretty crappy can be improved, and may even work, if you give it an appropriate name (& some photoshop brushing)

http://mishami.image.pbase.com/g3/77/639177/2/56050804.IrritableTension.jpg

..i guess those are enough for today, cant take too much criticism, with an exam tommorow and all..:/

Reply 99