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Its funny that, her eyes in this pic are what most people like.

I’ll tell you one thing now, I make my photos look the way I like them to look, if anyone that is not me wants it changed, it won’t happen.

I make photos for myself first and formost, everyone else is not relevant.  That is the one big thing I learnt from this site, don’t listen to others, listen to your own gut when it comes to your own expression.  I’m not trying to be negative to your comment, just being real to myself, it’s not your photographic style, it’s mine.

I’ve been given credit by two well known photographers that I highly admire and two that their style is what I inspire too,  and I listen to them simply because I’ve seen their work and I know what they are truely capable of. There words of encouragement or critisizm are headed too. Not that they criticized my work, but simply let me know that what I was doing was perfect. What is perfect? What works for those that it works for. I hate the Beatles, but it works for many, many others.

No offence is intended here, but I’ll keep my style to myself, saturated or not.

And do bear in mind, that photo was taken with zero preparation, natural lighting and the 6 pics I got from that time all took one minute from conception to heading home.  If I actually planned to shot and spent some time getting the Exposuer even better……………

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And my first attempt at  human photography lol (I don’t like people to much )

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Prove a point, no, I only thought about this forum after, I havnt been here or thought about here in a long time.

I just thought  you like to know. I did feel quite chuffed about it.

I entered the comp because I had a lot if faith in that picture, and I wanted to know if my kind photography was up to par, the way I captured and edited that pic is how I like flower photogeaphy.

And coming from Karl Taylor especially, was even better, simply if I ever was a pro, his kind of work I be into, and of course, thanks to Serge Ramelli for his brilliant LR 4-5 tutorials.

And yes IHF, you guys did put a little fire in my belly, you can own that 😉

This pic got me my first picture in Explore on Flikr

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Well, you guys told me to enter into competitions, tried one, result was pretty good.

Pic in the comp.

 

cheers.

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One I took this morning, I like it.

 

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Cheers Stef, I’ll take a good oak at what images are doing on my camera above f/11

 

Heres a couple of pics I liked that I took today, I know selective coloring is a no no generally, but its kinda works here, and I like it.;) edited in LR4

Flags here in Canberra

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Ahh good, that’s the edited version, at least I didn’t fook it up 😉

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Clicker, in regards to the sunset pics, the washed out one you call the second one, is the the second one in order of the thread or the first pic posted. After PP?

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Did you try using a mask for the people in Photoshop or Lightroom. At least you could have adjusted the rocks temps without affecting the people.

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Ok, I took another pic that I knew would be (for Me) a pain in the ass to get right in PP,and a pain of a picture to expose properly when taken.

So what are the opinions firstly, of the original pic, and could it have been taken better in camera

F/22

1/25

ISO100

50MM

The picture was taken free hand, so the focus is prolly not the best, but in focus or not, this type of picture are the ones that are generally my undoing in shooting and PP.The picture was taken specifically to be criticised, so go for it. Just remember, the focus issue would be different if I was being serious about it being a keeper and I would have used a tripod, but like I said, its the kind of Picture like this, with is all variying contrasts, that I have a hard time dealing with.

Before

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94214228@N05/8620431685/in/photostream

 

After

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94214228@N05/8621534456/in/photostream

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Thanks for that, but it was prolly too much of an easy shot do you think?

Might have to make it a harder challenge.

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As Shot

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94214228@N05/8621283780/in/photostream

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Cheers Loke. And sorry Clicker, I re-read your comment again and saw your perspective, so disregard my previous comment.

I should be grateful and in a better place yes, but I wish it was that simple.

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Clicker, as you can imagine, the “other woman” story is more than likely, a little more complex than the simplicity you made it seem here, so if we are at all to get along here, don’t make comments on situations you have no clue about. So, as you put it, it’s seems like I got a good deal, but it came at a very heavy cost. Drama? A mother load. I’m just grateful that the girl I’ve been with for 16 years, is a cut above the rest, but we will leave that subject here.

Now I have to tend to my sick dog., and that’s been a long sad drama.

Thanks for the help.

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She can’t be in love with because she is married to me.

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