Yer G'day

Here we have a small sample of my photos over the last year

more to come, just getting some up quickly.

Im only new as of today to the site and was looking around the photography section and found a pic quite similar to my corona image... i wasnt biting ideas haha my image was taken a while ago

criticism and comments welcome
Cheers

here are some pics from my trip to Japan in January

enjoi

Oh the colours!

here are some photos i took of a mates car

wasn't really sure what i was doing haha

never really done shots of a car before

The last shot is my fav, even though I think it's a tad over-done with the tilt, the ambient lighting has done you a real favour and made the ute stand out, well done with the comp in that frame too, killing the blue sky to really being out the ute.

Another thing, resize champ!

1 To me, seems to have DOF that should be wider as the arse of the ute is out of focus, if you flick open a mag and look at another static shot, you'll notice all of the car is in focus, by using a narrower (larger the number) aperture you'll keep more in focus but most likely loose the ability to shoot hand-held (unless it's a real sunny day). Something like f/8 is a decent sweet spot for most lenses. Perhaps framed a little too tight as well.

2 Has interesting composition, if more of the building was included perhaps? Shot protrait rather than landscape might've done it.

3 Well I like the creativeness with the flare but unfortunately with the car in the shadows, the lens flare really steals the whole frame, a shot like that would've probably worked with a strobe set-up, check out Kyle's latest thread, he's got a couple set-up shots of a commo he shot with his strobe kit, also notice how he's done what I've mentioned, keeping all the car in focus with a narrow aperture.

Nice work mate, better than any static car shots I've done, learn from the strengths in the last shot, watch the movers and shakers on here and you'll be running the joint in no time.

hey mate

thanks for you tips, much appreciated

i would like to hear what some other people think of my stuff? haha

Post in other peoples threads and the love starts spreading, you can't just expect them to flock like I do.. I get bored often

random edits for a school assignment

random edits for a school assignment

Personally I like the clean edit with no noise or "digital grain", because TBH it looks nothing like film grain, it just looks like noise. The crop is better with the noisy shot but.

Got bored, found an old marker to take a few snaps of


For some reason after upload they rotated??? my computer keeps doing it.. sorry bout that

Hey man, i think this is an awesome subject! I would never have thought to shoot something like it.

I think the middle shot is my fav, probably because there's a large shadow in the first shot, you should photoshop in a fake reflection in the second shot!

cheers mate! yeh second turned out the best..
turned out alright considering it was resting on stencil paper against my bed haha

not in need right now
but in about 4-5 weeks does anyone have a d200 theyre willing to sell?

oh im in germany... will hopefully have some images up as soon as i find a cord to get photos onto the computer.. left it in adelaide!! grr

some nice pics there mate
you might wanna think about nocking up a signatur so ppl dont steal ur pics
and i'd resize them too, there only ever gonna be looked at at standard screen resolution
some nice urban shots and your nearly there with the car pic
what sort of camera you shooting with?

yeh yeh good idea.... should be able to come up with one

and ahhh im shooting d40x but a mate might want to buy it off me... so im thinking about d200

D200 FTW.

is that a good thing? haha.. 'FTW' what does it stand for anyway..

for the win.

lol & not knowing internetspeak
jks

i know most.. jus that i could think of a few other things FTW could stand for... for the win didnt come to mind

anyway.. was at a small ski resort type thing.. (its more like a hill) but i have no photoshop or anything here so no resizing or sig.. this was without a tripod.. under low light had to bump up the ISO a bit.. but heres what i got..

let me know what you think!!

sweet dude
could do with a bit of a tweak in photoshop to bring out the colours and sharpen a bit maybe?

ps, dam you for being so close to snow
im not going skiing till the 30th
where abouts are you atm?

Number 3 is my pick. Place looks like my sort of paradise. Never been in or even seen snow (live in Brisbane :/) looks awesome but.

as for CC.. Pity about the dark skies and haze that may in fact be snow (I got no idea) which kind of kills your view point plus running a high ISO and wide aperture.. Dude go buy a cheap-ass tripod and snap off some HDR's.

yeh they do need a little clean up.. no photoshop though where im staying, but as soon as im home ill fix them up a bit...

im in germany.. an hour out of dotrmund.. pretty sweet.. waiting for the perfect day for some sun sets.. i missed out on one the other day.. i live on a dairy farm in the country so can get some nice shots... 26th i head to switzerland with the my host familys brother, going to be sooo good:) where are you off too?



mmm i know what you mean.. i got a little gorillapod and it was too short for the photos.. but i did use it on the last one.. so had the lower iso there..i think im going back when the weathers a bit better so ill borrow the host brothers tripod then..

Look forward to it.

Haha host, it makes it sound like your a baby alien growing in somebodys tummy... Haha tummy...

yeh definatly looking forward to it!
but not sure about the alien thing haha

any prog i can use to resize my photos and create a watermark thats free off the net? or just resize??

much apreciated

I hear you can get photoshop for free

google "photoshop cs4 torrents"
kinda bigish tho, about 1gb

im off to la clusaz, france, near mont blanc

That's stealing?

shhhhhhhhh
not if no one knows

havnt heard of it but may google it... sounds good though.. havnt checked snow reports but apparently good season in europe this year..

i may jus download it photoshop then.. here for 7 weeks! no reason not to...

IrfanView is good free app to resize

aiight cool

any tips for my shots?? other than my resizing and need of signatue

lower iso and longer exposure i think was one of them
try some black and white too
but get photoshop
will let you bring your photos right out

mm i know them aswell.. had to up ISO under low light and had to use a faster shutter speed to stop it blurring simply because i had no tripod.. and also lack of photoshop at the moment..

buut also for my other photos.. any suggestiong

put some hot nekkid women in the middle of them?

crank the aperture right down and get some dof going?
should also help with the lack of light

Resize!!!!!!!!!

love ya shots though! last mini truck one is cool!

how much cash you think i could get for a d40x body??
need cash to put towards an upgrade

and lost my sb800 diffusion dome.. ebay should have one shouldnt it

One of my shots were used on the cover of the Salvos over in the UK they edited it a little bit.. but still happy! only have a pdf format of it though

Ebay have plenty, just got one for my sb-25 today actually.

Good work on the photo. Is the kid is supposed to be homeless? (But can afford a pair of vans?)

i took the photo for my art assignmen originally, then chucked it up on some site

not even that happy with then angle, and kinda cut his shoe off

ohhh well nothings perfect!

ever heard if perfection in imperfection?

Happy New Years!

back from switzerland
here are some old images that have been put through photoshop.. some from freiburg and some from switzerland.. not happy with a lot of them.. ISO has killed some of them..

I have a sig (going to work on it a bit) now and smaller image sizes..

As it is a new year i need to work on sorting out photos. At the moment my file management is shit.. need some people to share how they sort their images out.. i work with a mac and use iPhoto a bit...

also RAW or high quality jpeg??

I use Adobe Bridge to browse pics, I sort my stuff very simply. The new shit gets downloaded by the EOS util to a folder in my photos folder called 'yet to be classified' then i go through them in bridge which can also be used to set off HDR's and pixel-peep (or rather 100% view in a small, movable window), side-by side compare and rang in 1-5 stars etc..

then once it's all done i either throw them in a generic '200X' (e.g.2008) folder or something like cars etc.. which i probably shouldn't do as it mixes happy-snaps and the rest..

That's how i do it!

Man that snow looks unreal! RAW vs Jpeg, i'm on RAW's side, you can create composites easy (eg that street shot you could just run the exposure slider down -2 and see the sky, run that off as a second jpeg and then mask in the sky), but each to their own. Some people seem to champion JPEG as the digital film in the sence that, if you screw it it's lost for ever but the only thing i think they're screwing is their own time by not utilising their gear to it's potential. Lame.

You're improving so quickly, the last set really shows it.

Fantastic work.

It snowed a bit last night.. looked like a good chance to get some photos

i also tried my first pano, needs a bit of work but happy for my first time

Ohh shit!!.. jus realised that my lens is quite dirty!

anyone got anything to say!
good or bad shots?
anything i need to improve on?

#1 comp is good but the sky is nailed, perhaps try masking it in? actually all of them the sky is a flat great, is this just what the cloud cover is like?

Try and perhaps grab a portrait of a lone pine tree covered in ice, that'd look pretty cool.

I find those shots, apart from #1 (and the other version which is not shining for me) lack focal point. Perhaps the shot with the horse, make the horse the subject, go down and shoot it if you can getting all the icey shit in the background etc..

i took this picture in berlin

i thought it turned out pretty nice

Yeah that is pretty nice! The building seems a little flat, not a lot of contrast, probably the freezing air (i noticed the water has ice in it).