Rate the Photo Above you

[mama_fluxus]

On 10/22/2016 at 2:00 PM, Mihle Gaming said:

I do not have much experience with photography at all and what makes a picture good, but here is my opinion:
I think it is nice how the statue is somewhat hidden in the leaves. It should possibly have been little bit less dark. And my "heart" kind of thinks that something in the right of the image could have been better, without me knowing what.

This will be the first of my images I post online: (I am a noob and 99% of my images is crap)
I have no idea if it good or not or if what could have made it better.

Buckingham Palace Guards on Horseback by Mihle IRL, on Flickr

Don't be so hard on yourself man! This is a great picture. 

 

My only critique would be to tilt down a little bit. The phrase to remember is "fill the frame" all the action is going on with the horses and not the out of focus tress in the background.

 

 

I took this at an Indiana State University football game. This was shot with a Canon 70-200mm F4 on a Canon 70D and edited in adobe lightroom.

 

[Mihle]

53 minutes ago, mama_fluxus said:

*snip*

Probably should have done, that image has less trees than it had before I did crop it away

[GamerzCentralYT]

On 10/24/2016 at 2:37 PM, mama_fluxus said:

Don't be so hard on yourself man! This is a great picture. 

 

My only critique would be to tilt down a little bit. The phrase to remember is "fill the frame" all the action is going on with the horses and not the out of focus tress in the background.

 

 

I took this at an Indiana State University football game. This was shot with a Canon 70-200mm F4 on a Canon 70D and edited in adobe lightroom.

 

Nice clear sharp photo. Good colors too! 9/10

 

I've started shooting in raw!

 

[beach_boy98]

On 25/10/2016 at 11:45 PM, GamerzCentralYT said:

 

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Great looking image. Good depth of field and cool lighting. Here's my shot.

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[Tam3n]

On 10/27/2016 at 4:42 PM, beach_boy98 said:

Great looking image. Good depth of field and cool lighting. Here's my shot.

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Nice ice cream. I think it could have come out better if you had more colorful background (bright green grass comes to mind). Now it looks a bit dark and grey and not that appealing. Looks like you are in shade, I wonder how it would look like in direct sunlight. Also the peoples feed at the right could have been left out of the frame.

 

This is not so great of an image (also the stacking is half-baked), but I'm testing macro with reversed lens setup. I bought some cheap adapter rings on ebay from China to play around

 

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Just a reminder to everyone of the rules of this thread:

On 5/19/2013 at 6:29 PM, Blade of Grass said:

Hey guys!

 

I thought I'd show the photography section some more love, and maybe try to get it more active.

 

So I have a little game, I'll start it off. Basically, you're going to rate the person above you's photo, and then post you own to be rated.

Rules:

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• ONLY constructive criticism allowed
• No retaliation ratings, if someone gives your photo a low score, you are NOT allowed to give them a poor rating to 'get back' at them
• No OT posts, please stick to the rating-photo posts only, if you see a post that doesn't follow the rules, ignore it and move on
• Photos can be rated on a 1-10 scale, or can be verbal ratings
• Photos must be your own
• Please no larger than 800 pixels wide
• Skip OT posts and rate the photos above them
• Have fun!

To start us off:

 

-original photo removed, available upon request-

[Hackentosher]

On 10/30/2016 at 1:12 AM, Tam3n said:

Nice ice cream. I think it could have come out better if you had more colorful background (bright green grass comes to mind). Now it looks a bit dark and grey and not that appealing. Looks like you are in shade, I wonder how it would look like in direct sunlight. Also the peoples feed at the right could have been left out of the frame.

 

This is not so great of an image (also the stacking is half-baked), but I'm testing macro with reversed lens setup. I bought some cheap adapter rings on ebay from China to play around

 

Eh 5/10. Great detail and focus , but I think it's a bit exposed to make it interesting. Just my opinion

This is from my weekend in Tucson (the armpit of Arizona) taken on my gs6. Unfortunately didn't have my t5 with me. 

[Mihle]

On 1.11.2016 at 9:06 PM, Hackentosher said:

Eh 5/10. Great detail and focus , but I think it's a bit exposed to make it interesting. Just my opinion

This is from my weekend in Tucson (the armpit of Arizona) taken on my gs6. Unfortunately didn't have my t5 with me. 

What did you try to take image of? I am guessing the sky, but my eyes is more dragged to the street light, and is distracting. 

If that street light was meant to be the object, I dont think its the best in that situation. having the silhouette of a object/person in a bright background may be great if the object fits, street light does not

 

4/10

 

And now my picture, its another picture from when I was in London.

 

London Eye at Night by Mihle Photography, on Flickr

[Hackentosher]

7 minutes ago, Mihle Gaming said:

What did you try to take image of? I am guessing the sky, but my eyes is more dragged to the street light, and is distracting. 

If that street light was meant to be the object, I dont think its the best in that situation. having the silhouette of a object/person in a bright background may be great if the object fits, street light does not

 

4/10

 

And now my picture, its another picture from when I was in London.

 

London Eye at Night by Mihle Photography, on Flickr

I was going for more of an artistic approach with my shot, nothing is really the focus. Like your photo here. I like this shot, although the ISO looks a little high for my taste making the sky and other things a little noisy. That being said, I like the vibrance of all the colors. 6.5/10

 

 

This guy is from a church in Ljubljana. F4.5, 1/100, ISO 1600.

[Mihle]

10 minutes ago, Hackentosher said:

*Snip*
 

I dont quite know what you mean? High ISO? my picture was shot at ISO 100, literally cant be lower. Just saying

If you mean those red dots and that small line in the sky, thats planes and stuff. could not do much about that, except taking the picture one more time, but as I didnt see it on the camera screen, so could not do anything about that

[Hackentosher]

2 minutes ago, Mihle Gaming said:

I dont quite know what you mean? High ISO? my picture was shot at ISO 100, literally cant be lower. Just saying

If you mean those red dots and that small line in the sky, thats planes and stuff. could not do much about that, except taking the picture one more time, but as I didnt see it on the camera screen, so could not do anything about that

well shit, nevermind  

[xmx1024]

IMG_7312 by shaydenco, on Flickr

[Bsmith]

On 5-11-2016 at 0:43 AM, Hackentosher said:

I was going for more of an artistic approach with my shot, nothing is really the focus. Like your photo here. I like this shot, although the ISO looks a little high for my taste making the sky and other things a little noisy. That being said, I like the vibrance of all the colors. 6.5/10

 

 

This guy is from a church in Ljubljana. F4.5, 1/100, ISO 1600.

-snip-

nice general overview of the church, but still 7/10 since I'm not able to define any subject with specific focus, incase it's the church as a whole, I find the shot to tight, although the colours are very nice and the light from the windows is not to bright.

 

Last night the (not so super) moon was nice and bright, I got a temporary window where the clouds would open up, after some work I managed to get the right settings for the first time with night photography.

Full moon by thommy saltzherr, on Flickr

 

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21 minutes ago, Bsmith said:

nice general overview of the church, but still 7/10 since I'm not able to define any subject with specific focus, incase it's the church as a whole, I find the shot to tight, although the colours are very nice and the light from the windows is not to bright.

 

Last night the (not so super) moon was nice and bright, I got a temporary window where the clouds would open up, after some work I managed to get the right settings for the first time with night photography.

Full moon by thommy saltzherr, on Flickr

 

I'm curious about two things:

• What focal length?
• How did you manage to get the clouds light enough without totally blowing out the moon itself?

[Bsmith]

35 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I'm curious about two things:

• What focal length?
• How did you manage to get the clouds light enough without totally blowing out the moon itself?

nice general overview of the church, but still 7/10 since I'm not able to define any subject with specific focus, incase it's the church as a whole, I find the shot to tight, although the colours are very nice and the light from the windows is not to bright.

 

200mm on a 1200D(crop)
In lightroom I slightly increased exposure, contrast, shadows and the whites, while decreasing in the highlights and blacks. combined with a maxed out Clarity(but that is mostly to get the moon sharp) but I must say that the clouds where within the moon's halo already, but not visible at all. owh and lens corrections turned off for this occasion.
I can sent more info in PM if you want too.

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6 minutes ago, Bsmith said:

200mm on a 1200D(crop)
In lightroom I slightly increased exposure, contrast, shadows and the whites, while decreasing in the highlights and blacks. combined with a maxed out Clarity(but that is mostly to get the moon sharp) but I must say that the clouds where within the moon's halo already, but not visible at all. owh and lens corrections turned off for this occasion.

Interesting.  No, that's enough   Yeah I've done editing like that too, I'm just surprised it managed to pick up the full range within one shot; that's always the trick isn't it?  

[Qwweb]

1 hour ago, Bsmith said:

nice general overview of the church, but still 7/10 since I'm not able to define any subject with specific focus, incase it's the church as a whole, I find the shot to tight, although the colours are very nice and the light from the windows is not to bright.

 

Last night the (not so super) moon was nice and bright, I got a temporary window where the clouds would open up, after some work I managed to get the right settings for the first time with night photography.

Full moon by thommy saltzherr, on Flickr

 

Nice especially cool cause it is just the moon.

[Bsmith]

1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Interesting.  No, that's enough   Yeah I've done editing like that too, I'm just surprised it managed to pick up the full range within one shot; that's always the trick isn't it?  

yes it is, although due to the nature of night photography it could also be the additional changes in the camera's colour profile I made(which I just thought off), using a custom one, which only allows minimal post editing, which can be annoying, but also(like this case) an helpful thing, in the end it's all about creating a work flow that you like and can properly work with easily.

[Tuna Terrorist]

Taken at the John Hancock Center in Chicago, IL. Taken with my Canon t6i which is better than my 70d imo.

[James_Alfie_Photography]

8/10. Very clear and detailed shot. Love the reflection in the bottom right.

 

Here's mine, taken on my phone (Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 (UK Phone))

[Daniel0898]

On 11/26/2016 at 2:18 PM, James_Alfie_Photography said:

8/10. Very clear and detailed shot. Love the reflection in the bottom right.

 

Here's mine, taken on my phone (Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 (UK Phone))

7/10, Especially for a phone It would have been really cool to get a close up action shot of that seal jumping!

 

 

 

Here's mine; it was taken with a Canon Rebel t5. I had to climb my roof to get a good angle  Edited with lightroom as well.

[Emzijs]

8/10. The color contrast is great and I like it, but I am not the fan of dark pictures. Other than that, it's good!

[peabody505]

9/10, would like to seem some more contrast between the car and the environment, otherwise very good.

 

Here's mine: Shot on iPhone 6S, edited in Lightroom for iPhone.

 

[Xafer]

6/10 i like the feel and look of the image, the clouds look amazing - But i feel it needs some work.

The photo should be cropped in a different way imo. and you should be closer to the other cars.
Reflection in the windshield is unfortunate.
The colors doesnt really pop, especially in the sky.

 

Urania Observatory in Aalborg, Denmark - Shot on Sony A6000 18-50 kit lens.

[This kid builds pc]

8/10 I'm not really a photographer but the contrast looks really good. What's not good about the photo is the noise on the bottom right in the area around the edge of the building.

 

 

This photo is from a sand sculpting event. It was shot on my NX300 with a 35-70 FD lens at f/5.6, 1/1000 sec., and iso 200.