Kittens, bells and a flower!

[ashishtamhane]

This is the first time I am posting my snaps on this site. I hope you like them. Any feedback would be helpful.
Cheers!

[KrishnenduKes]

If you want real critique, I will have to move your thread to Critique section!

Approved

[ashishtamhane]

If you want real critique, I will have to move your thread to Critique section!


All right KrishnenduKes, move the thread to the Critique section and thank you for approving the thread.
:)

[KrishnenduKes]

Thread Moved to Critique

[synn]

I like the bells pic, although a bit more DoF would have been nice.

The rest look like ordinary snapshots. Work on your framing a bit more to get photographs out of them.

[KrishnenduKes]

I like the bells pic, although a bit more DoF would have been nice.

The rest look like ordinary snapshots. Work on your framing a bit more to get photographs out of them.

Agree with Synn. The Bells shot is appealing. However, the others do not hold much interest. They look hackneyed.

[ashishtamhane]

Thanks for the comments and the critique.

Here is another photo that I took of a Fly that had come in my home in the monsoon season. I have used the Macro feature and the flash for this picture. I have also cropped the image, but otherwise there is no editing done.

[KrishnenduKes]

If you do not posses specialist Macro equipment like Anvancy or Vicky or Aryan, I guess this shot will do. But it is better if you start concentrating on and working on your framing, angles, light situations, colours of regular photos before plunging right away into something very specialised and difficult like close-ups and macros.

[ashishtamhane]

If you do not posses specialist Macro equipment like Anvancy or Vicky or Aryan, I guess this shot will do. But it is better if you start concentrating on and working on your framing, angles, light situations, colours of regular photos before plunging right away into something very specialised and difficult like close-ups and macros.

Is the framing poor in the Fly snap?

[KrishnenduKes]

Is the framing poor in the Fly snap?

Pretty decent. I was talking about the other shots.

[synn]

Here's something that almost always works (And something that you unknowingly did in the bell picture): Go wide angle and get close to the subject. Always makes for interesting compositions, even for portraits if you're creative enough.

Using a normal focal length with a long depth of field results in ordinary snapshots, unless the scene is filled with interesting elements (Like a Junkyard, for e.g.).

Play around with these ideas. There would come a point when something inside your head "Unlocks" and you'll start discovering great compositions where you previously saw none. :)

[KrishnenduKes]

Here's something that almost always works (And something that you unknowingly did in the bell picture): Go wide angle and get close to the subject. Always makes for interesting compositions, even for portraits if you're creative enough.

Using a normal focal length with a long depth of field results in ordinary snapshots, unless the scene is filled with interesting elements (Like a Junkyard, for e.g.).

Play around with these ideas. There would come a point when something inside your head "Unlocks" and you'll start discovering great compositions where you previously saw none. :)

Good way of putting things Synn. Impressive to say the least. Looks like you would make a good teacher.

[ashishtamhane]

Here's something that almost always works (And something that you unknowingly did in the bell picture): Go wide angle and get close to the subject. Always makes for interesting compositions, even for portraits if you're creative enough.

Thanks for the tip. I will work on it.

[ashishtamhane]

Here is another snap for the critique section. This one was taken in a farm in Jalgaon district.

http://www.thephotographer.in/darkroom/attachment.php?attachmentid=1429&d=1278509861

[KrishnenduKes]

The photograph again is just a snap. I can see that you are using a Sony DSC. You can do wonders with this cam. For low subjects, get down to their level. These are some basics you need to apply. Read a book or two on the basics of photography. Ask Synn sir, he will guide you and tell you about books too. I personally recommend Hedgecoe.

[ashishtamhane]

I personally recommend Hedgecoe.

Thanks for providing the name of the book. I will get it as soon as possible.

[synn]

Ok, before you spend money on a book, I'll give you a simple exercise:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Rubiks_cube_scrambled.jpg

That's a Rubik's cube. They're everywhere. Find one.

Then get your camera and maybe your tripod. Start shooting. Use every angle, every Aperture, every lighting condition... everything you can think of until you're sure there's NO OTHER way to shoot it.

Copy all the pics to your computer. Go through them. Find the ones that are appealing to you. Shortlist them. Maybe even post here so that we could help give suggestions. Then go through the shortlisted ones again and see what exactly makes them look appealing. Go repeat them with other subjects.

I guarantee ya, you'll return a better photographer.

[KrishnenduKes]

That's a Rubik's cube. They're everywhere. Find one.

Then get your camera and maybe your tripod. Start shooting. Use every angle, every Aperture, every lighting condition... everything you can think of until you're sure there's NO OTHER way to shoot it.


Great idea Synn. I did the same exercise when I was younger, but with a person's face!!! And with film!

[synn]

Oh man, the things I had to give up to afford rolls of film!!!

[KrishnenduKes]

Oh man, the things I had to give up to afford rolls of film!!!

Oh! I did not give up anything. That was the only thing that I was doing! :D

[ashishtamhane]

Start shooting. Use every angle, every Aperture, every lighting condition... everything you can think of until you're sure there's NO OTHER way to shoot it.



Thanks for the tip. I will work on it.