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I would like an honest critic of these pictures. I personally like them, but I want to know what everyone else thinks. Thank You.


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Congressman Costa-D

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Congressman Radanovich-R

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Damn you have a nice camera.

Dalton wrote:Damn you have a nice camera.

It is an Olympus Evolt E-500, an entry level DSLR. I choose the Olympus because I liked the coloring of the pictures, a bit more vivid than its competition. Also the price was better.

Dalton wrote:Damn you have a nice camera.

Wיhat model is it?

1)
Good but could use a high contrast ratio (Artificially high) to mark out the sparks.

3) Excellent, could use a slightly farther starting point and the bottom object (a wrecked truck?) to be more to the side (rule of thirds and all that).

4) Leaves blocking and out of focus=Bad.

5) Planes looks good, but its too dark and lacks interest - Its more of a documentary shot (look at my army/tank pics for an example).

You have a heck of a zoom and focus BTW .

Beautiful Sunrise, reminds me of the ones I took in Africa.
Could use some more filler light if possible to show the scenery slightly , it may not work without harming the sunrise, in this case crop much of the bottom out, The sky is too good to "damage".

9) Nice pic, I might crop the up to left most pole out but thats a matter of personal profiling taste.
The line connected to that pole also hurts the picture since it "leads" the eye without showing anything, I'd edit it out with photoshop or take the picture from adifferent position or with something better as the point lead to by the slope of the lines.

Again though, Good pictures

EDIT: Hey nice Cam, when at home I have a E-300 with a basic lense

Very nice, I like your style. I can't really point to any specific flaw but this image is not that great.

Number 1 suffers from the image being reduced in size. the 8 megapixel image is so much more.

So number 4 is not that good. I think it was the lighting, I had bump the ISO way up, at the time I had no flash and the sun was set.

Number 5, no it was not a zoom, it was the standard 14-45mm lense, I was at the end of the runway as the F-16 took off.

Thanks for the feed back

The issue with 4, I think, is that the subject matter sits in the center of the frame, when she really ought to be offset to the the right.

1: is really cool. Cool guy and the orange and blue contrast very nice.

2: meh

3: Great image. I like it.

4: meh

5: meh

6:meh

7: meh

8: really cheesey

9: I like this one really well, too. Kind of an Half Life 2 esque Atmosphere.

I say cheese is wonderful. Personally, I would have gone for more sky and less ground in #8.

I now know which camera I am buying to replace the one the centipede broke. Thanks. How much did you pay for it?

I like the pic of the jet, and I don't think it's too dark. It sort of allows the nose and exhaust to be a focal point, which works. Nice.

Not bad stuff, here's the critique...

1. Welder. Nice stuff, I like the composition and it looks well lit by the welder. Maybe a little too much space on the left side, but still a very nice shot.

2. Model. Nice girl, lousy shot. The background is very cluttered and distracting, the girls dark hair and chequered look blending with it. Framing is also suspect, looks more like a candid shot at a weird party than a posed portrait. With a simpler background, more careful framing and her hair arranged more carefully this would have been better.

3. Desert. Composition is not good and lighting could have been better, but that's down to time of day more than anything. Always remember your rule of thirds, and that it helps to have a focus for the photo. What you have here is a picture undecided if it's about the rusting truck or the desert landscape. If the truck was the focus, why so low and so much desert? If the desert is the focus, why the truck? If the truck had been shown from further back so as to look very isolated and ruined it would have given the picture a story, a focal point. Nice try though.

4. Sitting Girl. Cheesy but nice, I like it. Could have been helped by better lighting, perhaps a reflector on the girl to make her stand out a little more, but I like the composition and the pose is not bad. More use could have been made of the shocking red of the dress against the grey backdrop.

5. F-16. As much as I like these aircraft a shot of one in the bottom left corner of an otherwise empty picture isn't too hot. There's a bit too much space for it to move in to, and the underside is a little dark and featureless. Nice and sharp though, cant have been easy to take.

6. Flag. Nice portrait, lots of atmosphere and character in the face, if a little heavy handed on the jingoism side with the flag in the background. Again a little stronger lighting and contrast would have helped, particularly in the highlight running down the edge of his face. Overall a very nice shot indeed.

7. Pilot. Interesting composition, having the man looking out of the side of the frame rather than across it. Good subject, but once again let down by the lighting, which needs some kind of fill as the face is overall too dark. Not sure about the composition as a whole, looks very half and half with the tail on one side and the face on the other.

8. sunset. The weakest shot by far I think, no rule of thirds here so we have half the picture devoted to a black, featureless area of no interest. Had it been cropped correctly it would have helped a lot, but with the land like that it's weighing the picture down and making it look very dark.

9. Dusty area. Nice and atmospheric, interesting lighting but let down somewhat by a lack of any focal point or any strong features in the landscape. A better choice might have been to get in a position to use the receding line of poles as a strong feature.

That's it, there is no more. Makes me want to get the camera out more myself, all I take photos of now are stars and stuff through my scope.

1. The welder is personally my favorite shot. It was not a posed shot, I just happened to catch the moment.

2. The model, this was the best looking shot for her. So just the black fabric in the back ground is to dark? She is leaning on her leg in the shot, I know the picture does not really show it, but we were going for face shots. It was my first model shoot. (I know I cut off her hand as well)

3. This was a very difficult shot. On my trip to death valley I spotted this car off the road half way down a cliff. The sun was behind me. (that is my shadow in the frame I am sad to point out).

4. I have went over it.

5. Actually, this picture is cropped, and brightened.There is alot more blue sky all the way around the aircraft in the original.

6 & 7) Same situation for each of these pictures. These were congressmen taking incentive flights. I was there to take their picture but not distract them, neither of these shots were posed. I just happened to catch them in front of the flag or the tail flash. The cheesy jingoism, I figured hey, maybe they may use a picture for a campaign or something.

K, my first sunset picture, this was also my trip to Death Valley

9) Well its the border of Mexico

The camera cost around $800 and comes with 2 lenses.

Thanks guys for the critics. I do have more pictures, but these are the only ones I have loaded to the net.

Something about #2 just doesn't agree with me. But that's just personal opinion.

I LOVE the first one, last one, and rusted car. Just as they are right now. No changes necessary.

The F16 seems too much like "I took a picture while I was walking along one day" It seems like the sort of thing somebody might get with a camera-phone. Mostly it's just because it's hard to get good pictures of airplanes in flight unless you are really good or the pilot is trying to set one up for you.