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  • #2911
    mike4king
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    Definitely looking for some advice.

    My background: owned Nikon DSLRs for about 6 years (started on D70, recently moved to D5100). Currently: Nikon 50mm 1.8, Nikon 18-300mm, Tamron 10-24mm, SB-600

    Went to school for software development, but absolutely love playing with the camera and always looking for suggestions on what I can do better.

    My flickr: http://www.flickr.com/mike4king

    #2921
    hellomarcy
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    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike4king/7747536224/in/photostream/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike4king/7747521940/in/photostream/

    that is going to bring some heat on your portfolio. no one will be impressed with those. it only opens up a can of worms. nasty wormsssss.

     

    i like this one 🙂 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike4king/7104348301/in/photostream/ heeheheheheh

     

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike4king/3655706870/in/photostream/ and this one lol

    just wait til the others 🙂 especially the critique from my main man STEF. LOL he will rip you a new asshole and then sew it up with some criticism. i don’t have the heart to do it. lol

    #2929
    dicksforeyes
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    -Selective coloring

    -Motorcycles

    -mega contrast/saturation

    These are the photos of a standard bro who got his hands on a DSLR. I guess what you have to ask yourself is if you really have any interest in photography or just cool gear and loud colors.

    #2932
    mike4king
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    Selective coloring is something I’ve done at the request of others, and this is not necessarily a portfolio of my best work, just a collection of stuff that people asked to see. I understand that I still have a lot of work to do, and that my editing skills leave quite a bit to be desired. However, I consider higher contrast pictures to be part of my style and something I choose to do. I don’t really shoot faded/pastel pictures like some photogs do.

    Also, what’s wrong with shooting motorcycles, and why is the picture of the guy doing a no-handed wheelie specifically a bad shot? I’m not looking for praise, I’m definitely looking for constructive criticism but I want to know more about how pictures could be taken/edited differently to create a better image.

    #2935
    dicksforeyes
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    What I’m saying is it’s not even clear what you are trying to achieve. You’re just pointing and shooting and boosting the colors. Pick some photos that you think are amazing and try to do them yourself.

    You could post the photos you want to emulate here so we can see what you’re trying to do.

    #2948
    hellomarcy
    Participant

    op, its becausssse of selective coloring 🙂

    #2973
    Brownie
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    High contrast as a style isn’t really a style, The human eye is naturally attractive to contrasty images, but to someone that has ‘been-there, done-that’, it looks very cheesy to me.

     

    And the no-hand wheelie is a bad photograph mostly because the background is blown out to hell.

    #2985
    stef
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    Lol now I don’t want o look. And generally I’m reasonably nice, just really blunt.

     

    I want people to be good shooters. I’ll check this later tonight.

     

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