One new one today, i gotta clean it up a bit more and get some more tomorrow.....i love having all these industrial backdrops on my own property!!


please, i need critiqueing of this one, i need to get better!!!!

 

Looks good to me... The only thing I see IMO, is to rotate a tad. On a side note, this picture might look better without the yellow bars, but then again it could just be personal preference. Looks cool to me either way.
Also, another personal preference would be to post process, to your own liking.

From here on, just post process to what YOU think looks good. That will bring out your very own personal style.

Here is an example of everything I just said, but keep in mind that this is just how I would of done it. Everything else is the same aside from the rotate.

 

thx for the response, Vertigo

i'm going to work on a few other pics i have behind the building where i work, i have a few good ones next to a few large trucks, one in a loading dock, etc. i'll post a few up in a bit.......

 

btw, does anyone know a good place to learn how to use photoshop better? any downloadable programs or something??? :impatient

 

deleted- no longer needed, i like the 2nd pic better

 

and another tweaked one...

 

the only thing that bugs me is the angle of the Mini....otehr than that...looks great...

 

^^^-----I like the angle on that one!

 

I agree about straitening the angle out as well. If it was a heavy angle it might be ok but when it's only minor it just throws it off.
I like the location of the second photo but I would reshoot from a lower point of view and a little further away so you get the top of the tree in the shot, then do some post processing to get the greens nice and crisp. I think that would be shorp.

As for good ways to learn photoshop...hmmm...I just started pushing buttons and playing with filters and such to see what they do. Sometimes I lucked out. Then Mr.Tuls came along and would drop hints. There are lots of free tutorials online, I know there are some on www.deviantart.com but it's a little hard to sort threw em on there, might give you some good ideas though good luck

 

something like.......this? :smile:

 

BETTER! now open photoshop and play with the contrast and color levels

 

I need to pick up a cheapy tripod, i cant get some angles very well becuase the camera just wants to go out of focus because of a little movement. i have a few very sweet pics i really like, but the camera moved and its a tad blurred.

think just a cheap bestbuy tripod would work for noe? 20 or 30 bucks worth of a tripod?

 

something like this......

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Samso...oductDetail.do

 

here's my pshop

 

Hehehehe, i like!!!

now, i gotta learn hod to do stuff like that lol

 

Personal style was mentioned earlier. To me, the edit above is an excellent example of that. If you just showed me this photo edit on it's own with no labels an no other information, I would have guessed that scooby did it.

 

here here to that...I always know certain peoples stuff...and I want to see more originality than copying...I have seen a few pic lately that were just plane ripped off...

 

its hard to believe so many people can have so many different takes on one picture thats exactly the same.....

i'm going out right now to go shoot some more pics, i'll do some editing tonight and see what i come up with.....

 

cheers DiD

its not a perfect edit by any means - id lose the verical pole on the left and keep the horizontal look to them poles - the vertical background slats is enough - if you keep the background simple the eye will be drawn to the car - that left hand vertical messes with my head

also it could be edited far neater - it was just a quick 5min phop.

its funny you hand, eye and brain seem to go in auto-pilot clicking on stuff you know will work on most pics :D

i guess its like most things - put the time an effort into it and you will reap the rewards


EDIT
Window and that pole tidyed up

 

Definitely. One of the best parts of this forum is seeing different people's style over the body of work that they do, not just one or two photos. Everyone has a different eye and that comes across both in the taking of the photo and in the post processing.


I was commenting the other night to a friend that I had done some "initial edits" to a group of photos, but that I still needed to put more time in them to get them to "feel" the way I wanted them to. I know a lot of other people are the same way, so you wind up with different takes on the same photo because we all see things a little differently.

I'll be doing some more photo editing tonight too. Hopefully I'll have a couple new posts worth of photos to post up soon.

Both of those statements are so true.

cheers Scooby

 

Ricky, what's up with the dirty wheels?? That's not like you??


Great exercise folks!

Richard

 

red&white, looking good!. One suggestion like someone else said, loose the cluttered background, it does nothing for the pic. Other than that,

 

This one has innately shown the Rule of Thirds. (Break up the pic in thirds). It looks like your going from left to right in to the woods which is good. The only constructive thing I would add here is that the angle makes all the difference. If your standing up and looking at the boot, well boring ... everyone does that. Its MUCH more interesting to get really low, ground level, look up at the boot (which I think you are doing here).

 

Yeah Rick, that's probably fine, although you need to keep in mind the range of adjustment. That one says it's only expandable up to 54" (a little over 4') tall.

Anyway, if I were you, I'd save a bit more. I found a good deal on a tripod just recently and it was well worth the extra money I paid. It will last you a lot longer, and you won't grow out of it really fast.

 

You mean like this?





An interesting angle makes a big difference.