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Ryoki
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PostPosted: 05-31-2012 05:41 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Lol oops, made that post whilst on the phone, got a bit distracted i guess.. :)

And you wouldn't? How so? Hope you don't take offense when i say i find it kitschy, i’m of the opinion there's skill involved in producing things that are popular yet awful, a skill that i can certainly appreciate. It’s perhaps a bit like a popsong that tops the charts or a good advertising tagline – intellectually uninteresting and often creatively lacking but not devoid of a certain quality that strikes a chord with the tastless masses.



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PostPosted: 05-31-2012 07:23 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I like the first image, though for some reason it freaks the fuck out of me.

Second image, lose the bird in the foreground, it confuses the focal point with too much shit going on. Make the horses in a silhouette (not completely, but should match the trees since they are backlit).

Like Ryoki, I'm not a big fan of authored surreal nature scenes. It's a bit like those wolves howling at the moon pictures that people like on t-shirts and sweaters. Tacky in my opinion, but there still seems to be a huge market of people buying that stuff up, so who am I to judge?



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Thanks, but the image is the image. I didn't post it on here to get feedback on what I should change. It's finished.

I appreciate the words, though. It's just personal work; I just spent the last 8 weeks in a studio shooting a summer collection for a shoe company, which was, at points, soul destroying. It's nice to just create something from scratch that doesn't exist and get to practice your compositing technique and matte painting.

Would I present this as an example of my work? No, I'm a portrait photographer who specialises in advertising photography, but is it an accurate reflection of the kind of world's I imagine in my mind? Most definitely.
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PostPosted: 05-31-2012 07:56 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Shit, you've made me hate it now. That took two days!
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PostPosted: 05-31-2012 09:55 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


:olo:

cityy asked me on IRC to critique some of his textures for a map he's working on the other day, I told him his exit sign stick figure had odd proportions, knee too high, arm too short. At first he was like, "it looks fine, no one will notice" and then he was like, "fuck, now I think he looks retarded and I'll have to fix."

Apparently I have a knack for this.



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PostPosted: 05-31-2012 11:33 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


good thing you weren't around when da vinci was working
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PostPosted: 05-31-2012 12:45 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


0psys wrote:
Shit, you've made me hate it now. That took two days!



i love ur compositions i think theyre really really awesome, mucho talent'e ey!

hey whats ur birthday again?



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PostPosted: 05-31-2012 03:28 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
good thing you weren't around when da vinci was working


What did you tell him about the Mona Lisa, though?



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PostPosted: 06-01-2012 08:47 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


i told him that one day it would probably be critiqued in a really dumb way by a complete nerd, but that he'd be long dead by then so wtf
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PostPosted: 06-09-2012 06:30 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Bought me one of these yesterday Nikon D5100.

Specialist camera shop was having 10% off sale.
I asked and got some extras thrown in for next to nothing, buying just before the doors closed (figure that is the best time to great a deal, and yes it depends on how their day went of course)

Learning to drive it too so I wonder if you photography people would offer some useful links to better my education here.

I am particularly interested in night, portrait and macro/micro photography.

BTW, I replaced one of these so you see why

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A rather big jump you see :up: :D



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and a quick question if I may... the camera came packaged with one of these, Nikon AF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 G VR...

and I bought a long lens - Nikon AF-S 55-300mm f4-5.6G DX IF-ED VR but now I am thinking smaller (large aperture /f 1.4 but they are expensive), so which of these would you (read I) buy to complete the package for a first timer DSLR novice?

Nikon AF 50mm f1.8 D or Nikon AF 35mm f1.8G AF-S DX

Looking for better range (?) of photographic variety :D

local link

wiki on apertures FYI those that follow



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PostPosted: 06-11-2012 07:03 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Whiskey 7 wrote:
and a quick question if I may... the camera came packaged with one of these, Nikon AF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 G VR...

and I bought a long lens - Nikon AF-S 55-300mm f4-5.6G DX IF-ED VR but now I am thinking smaller (large aperture /f 1.4 but they are expensive), so which of these would you (read I) buy to complete the package for a first timer DSLR novice?

Nikon AF 50mm f1.8 D or Nikon AF 35mm f1.8G AF-S DX

Looking for better range (?) of photographic variety :D

You say you're interested in macro, so how about one of the "micro" lenses? The key here is that they're specifically designed to focus at close range, typically under 0.3m, so you can get close to your subject. Using the link you provided, it appears the AF-S 40MM F2.8G DX MICRO is the cheapest. With f2.8 it could double as a portrait lens for a beginner, even if 40mm would usually be considered a little short.
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Thanks d3mol!t!on :up:

Yes the AF-S 40MM F2.8G DX MICRO. I was considering it for the real close stuff, bonus as you said, double as a portrait lens.

Still to me, a novice no doubt, the Nikon AF 28mm f2.8D looks a smidge better.
Seems I better study the relationship between focal length and aperture some more....



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PostPosted: 06-12-2012 03:51 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


obsidian wrote:
Tacky in my opinion, but there still seems to be a huge market of people buying that stuff up, so who am I to judge?


Someone with taste, perhaps?

0psys wrote:
Would I present this as an example of my work?


Well that's what this thread is for. Why show anyone something that you think is not good enough? You some kind of attention seeker? You might show such a thing to get tips on how to imrpove your work, but that's what Obsidian was doing, yet you bitch about it. Quit being a bitch, man up and improve your work or GTFO :arrow:

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cityy asked me on IRC to critique some of his textures for a map he's working on the other day, I told him his exit sign stick figure had odd proportions, knee too high, arm too short. At first he was like, "it looks fine, no one will notice" and then he was like, "fuck, now I think he looks retarded and I'll have to fix."

Apparently I have a knack for this.


Hey, it's a skill. It's called Quality Control. AKA having good taste.

seremtan wrote:
good thing you weren't around when da vinci was working


Yeah, cause he would hate to be told how he could improve somthing, we all know how much he hated improving anything :dork:

Oh wait, Obsidian wouldn't know how any of LDV's work could be improved, so it's not relevant. Moron. You just compared 0psys to LDV. WTG missing the point of criticism.

"Yeah, if there was an art critic around when LDV was doing his work, that would have ruined everything!". Yeah, sure.

Everyone's a critic. Deal with it. Go read the "last movie you saw" thread.

This post of mine isn't about 0psys's picture, I haven't even looked at it, I'm just correcting the moronics I found on the latest page of the thread. Expected to see the latest photos, not moronics. (Only picture on the page is a catalogue picture of a camera. Thread does not deliver.)
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DTS, stop, before it's too late.
Sigh, it already is...



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PostPosted: 06-12-2012 04:11 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


great page...would skip again.
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PostPosted: 06-12-2012 04:42 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Lol what an idiot.



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DTS wrote:

0psys wrote:
Would I present this as an example of my work?


Well that's what this thread is for. Why show anyone something that you think is not good enough? You some kind of attention seeker? You might show such a thing to get tips on how to imrpove your work, but that's what Obsidian was doing, yet you bitch about it. Quit being a bitch, man up and improve your work or GTFO :arrow:


Christ.. What are you even talking about?
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PostPosted: 06-12-2012 06:36 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


You ask like you are expecting that even he knows.



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DTS wrote:
seremtan wrote:
good thing you weren't around when da vinci was working


Yeah, cause he would hate to be told how he could improve somthing, we all know how much he hated improving anything :dork:

Oh wait, Obsidian wouldn't know how any of LDV's work could be improved, so it's not relevant. Moron. You just compared 0psys to LDV. WTG missing the point of criticism.

"Yeah, if there was an art critic around when LDV was doing his work, that would have ruined everything!". Yeah, sure.

Everyone's a critic. Deal with it. Go read the "last movie you saw" thread.


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So anyway, can I have my old name, icon, and all that shit back?
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Or failing that, I'm happy being genxgenius again if that account is still going.
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PostPosted: 06-13-2012 09:53 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


sure whats ur astrology sun sign tho?



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PostPosted: 06-13-2012 11:15 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


0psys wrote:
So anyway, can I have my old name, icon, and all that shit back?


I'm sure if you post this in this thread, it will be taken care of immediately...
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it will, if only to troll me... you're welcome 0psys
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That DTS guy is off the chain, yo!
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PostPosted: 06-13-2012 10:43 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


0psys wrote:
So anyway, can I have my old name, icon, and all that shit back?

using your original name will summon teh raw who will delete your account posthaste.
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Image

Las Vegas valley from the desert.
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duffman91 wrote:
[img]

Las Vegas valley from the desert.


Nice duffman91

Camera/lens/settings?



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duffman91 wrote:
[img]

Las Vegas valley from the desert.


I find that picture massively calming...
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here is a pic i took its nothing special in composition or subject content

i am just happy with the way a p&s resolved the foliage and the contrast

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[quote="plained"]here is a pic i took its nothing special in composition or subject content

i am just happy with the way a p&s resolved the foliage and the contrast


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Whiskey 7 wrote:
duffman91 wrote:
[img]

Las Vegas valley from the desert.


Nice duffman91

Camera/lens/settings?


Canon 50D/28-135@28mm/ISO 400 f/5 1/8000 - Which actually came out too bright as I forgot to set my ISO setting when I took it. I had to lower the brightness and tweak the blacks in post. Would have came out fine with ISO 200 I reckon.
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andyman wrote:
[img]


Your boat andyman? Just passing by?

duffman91 :up: Yes ISO;as important as all other settings I am reading about :question:



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