[simoncookerussell]

Read you replies and then read everyone else’s, and then if you can’t see it then, your beyond help.

You noticed my replies to you compared to the others?

but hey, this place works for you, to me you sound like a jaded old photographer who is probably doing his best, but it ain’t good enough, so you’ll just hang shit onto others to make you feel good.

Walk away from this thread, will not reply to you anymore unless you actually want to help, instead of just criticize.

[simoncookerussell]

Start by being less of an arrogant dickhead maybe?

 

and how about you share with me your fine portfolio, after all, you are talking the talk, I wanna see your walk.

[simoncookerussell]

It’s funny you said that about the Sigma, I was just saying yesterday to the guy that sold me it, that now after using the Macro L and the EFS 15-85, that I cannot stand the Sigma anymore ( I owned the sigma before the other two) but it was a lens bought because of budget reasons a the time. I will be selling it and replacing it with a 70-200 L 2.8. I don’t really need 500mm of zoom and I’ve really only used that lens (Sigma) once in the last few months. It really is shit, and for all you said wrong about it, it’s its saturation I cannot stand, and its blurry all the time, but not an out of focus kind of blurry if you know what I Mean.

 

Believe me people, I’m hearing what you are saying, but the first reply was just to brutal and IMO, unfair way to talk to a beginner. I realize now that this is really not the place to get proper constructive criticism being that its a site that’s used to being exceptionally hard on bad photographers, and they are the bad photographers pretending to be good ones, and the key word is “Professional”  which I never claimed to not nor ever will.

All I know about the RAW files is that I’m shooting in RAW, my Mac Book Pro has .dng next to them, and in the file description it says “Type:RAW”

ive actually thought if my 7D converts them into anything different while file transferring, but there no setting on the camera to do so, so as far as I’m concerned, the files are being transferred as they were shot. I transfer them using Lightroom. And this is simply because the software that came with the camera to handle file transfers always crashed from day one, tried reinstalling, but to no avail.

And yes, my file management for my pics does need improving. But look at it this way, all I have are the original RAW’s and the edit I use for IG, so if I ever need that pic again elsewhere, I’m going to have to re-edit it, and by the looks of the opinions here, that may not be a bad thing 😉

And I should mention that I’ve been shooting in Manual Mode in the last month (read the book “understanding Exposures”) and are taking pictures with the correct exposure. All generally at ISO 100.

ill give that digital photography school site a look.

Cheers.

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And I should point out, all the 1×1 pics are cropped for Instagram, hence why the composition may not be the best. Unfortunately I never saved the un cropped original pic. I have the raw files, but havnt been PP. all the setting are erased once I have saved the 1×1.

 

i started my IG account using an ipone only, only got a DSLR in December, so I can at least be excused for the errors mentioned, I only really wanted any opinions if I’m on the right track, any potential for years down the track.

[simoncookerussell]

I agree with your last paragraph, that bird photo you linked was done on iPhone apps, hence the crudeness of it, and just in the last few weeks “literally” I started watching many youtube vides of how to get the most out of Lightroom 4, as I’ve been using it for awhile without really knowing how to use it.

Ive been taking random shots regularly and trying to learn PP in Lightroom for practice.  But I disagree with some of the saturation comments, the bridge pic, point taken, but as of late, I’m liking flower photography a lot, and the style I do with them, is my preference, weather some think its too salty or not.

Everything I’m doing ATM is about figuring out what things do, being camera and software, but at the same time I’m figuring out what I like and what I don’t.

And I agree with you, if I ask for opinions, I’m going to get them, which is why I responded with the comments about why I had to ask in the first place.

Im in a situation where I know no one who knows anything about photography, I have no one to show me where I’m going wrong or right. But the majority of stuff,I like what I do, and that’s all that counts.

Remember, it’s for me, no one else

[simoncookerussell]

Sorry for the rant, I know I said I’d accept critisizm, but by the looks of it, I havnt.

But I had a think to myself after Brownie made his comments. I take pictures how I like, for my own personal enjoyment. I really don’t know what I wanted by coming on here to get approval,  especially when it really won’t make a difference to how I shoot. This site is intended to point out the frauds ripping people off, and I’m not nor ever will be, one of them, so in that case, how I take and enjoy my photos ain’t got nothing to do with anyone else, being a big part of photography is artistic and personal, whether I follow typical trends or be unique.

 

Sorry I wasted your time.

[simoncookerussell]

Ok, back to the subject of Saturation.

This pic  www.flickr.com/photos/94214228@N05/8575209843/in/photostream

i made this pic look this way on purpose, being if you saw the flower in real life, it was pretty uninspiring.

You see, here’s the problem. I make my photos look the way I do because of what’s how I like to see that particular image, and when it comes to flowers, sunsets, etc, you can have an artistic leeway to make them into something they weren’t originally. Otherwise it’s a typical pic that everyone else has taken of that particular sunset. If it wasn’t for post processing, every pic would look the same.

But I think we will leave this  here where we are.. I know I’m not as bad as the fauxtogs in this site, but simply being a hobbiest (will never take photography to a professional level) i won’t stand here a cop critisism from an obvious purists, because I don’t want to make a picture look exactly how it is in real life, because that’s simply no fun. As for human portraits, I can understand that there are rules in how to do it properly.

 

And as for criticizing the organization of my Flickr account, that’s hardly reveleant and its only been active for Week.

 

Just as well you weren’t an art critique when Picasso started out.

[simoncookerussell]

Ok, the purposely blurred background pics are done on purpose, simply because “I” like the look. You don’t, no problem.

Overly saturated, again, i like the look.

 

As for the one you put the link up on, yes it ain’t a photograph as such, so I apologize if it inconvenienced you being in there. Funny that though, I’ve given away a few of those as prints from people in Canberra wanting it.

 

But I won’t take your criticism personally simply because you don’t like my style.

 

Note to self, what did you expect from an Internet forum Simon?

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