The "Ive taken a pic and I kinda like it" thread

[McGherkin]

Some rather s**te ones but what do you think? First two are blurry but since I can't find the manual focus (Fuji S1600) there wasn't much I could do

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Don't know if I posted this before but this is my favourite so far.

 

[Brazo]

St Katherines Docks by Brazo76, on Flickr

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Nice shot Brazo. The only thing I would do to that is straighten the verticals a bit, like the building at the very left of the frame.

Otherwise......thumbs up

 

[Brazo]

Cheers, already tried to straighten twice lol, maybe third time lucky

 

[bully]

Nice shot Brazo.

 

[v15ben]

Cracking shot, Brazo!

 

[v15ben]

Took this at the Full Moon Festival we had down the local beach on Monday.

Devil Horns by v15ben, on Flickr

 

[PaulClioSport]

Brazo nice shot! Really love your work, always so much color in your pic's! Was this one straight out of the camera or edited? Apart from straighten it.

 

[MattToTheR]

In the sky over Tenerife

 

[Scott™]

Great shot Brazo. What lens? As your images always have amazing clarity to them!

 

[Brazo]

Brazo nice shot! Really love your work, always so much color in your pic's! Was this one straight out of the camera or edited? Apart from straighten it.

Thanks Paul, colours actually aren't as purple as I would have liked, I have more to post up with straight out of camera colours that actually look more "unrealistic" than this lol! It's a combination of pollution, long exposure and twilight!

Great shot Brazo. What lens? As your images always have amazing clarity to them!

Hi Scott, thanks, lens is actually the much criticized Sony 16mm e mount prime. I do however have a Carl Zeiss on order so watch this space

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Another cracker there Brazo.

Took this the other day coming in from work. Had to crop quite a bit and its not as sharp as I would like but I don't think I wil get any sharper unless I spend on new glass.

Hoyle seal by A_Cro, on Flickr

 

[nebraska182]

A few from the Lake District yesterday - doesn anyone know if its possible to make any money regarding royalties from these kind of landscpe shots - do IStock or Getty accept this kind of stuff?

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

They would yes...but..saying this constructively...they would generally be looking for higher quality shots than that.

By all means try, but I would be VERY surprised if any were accepted.

 

[nebraska182]

They would yes...but..saying this constructively...they would generally be looking for higher quality shots than that.

By all means try, but I would be VERY surprised if any were accepted.

Cheers mate..do you mean higher quality in resolution or there just not good enough? I think the 1st & 2nd are one of my personal best ive taken from over the years..

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Well they would certainly need to be higher resolution too.

Those sites are looking for very high quality work.

Your photos are nice don't get me wrong, there are things you could improve though...little things like making sure the horizons are dead level, the post(?) in the bottom right of the second photo is very distracting and should be cropped/cloned out etc.


I personally wouldn't even try submitting my own work, as I know for well that a pro would have taken the same shot as me (in those landscape locations) and done a much better job (than me).

 

[nebraska182]

Well they would certainly need to be higher resolution too.

Those sites are looking for very high quality work.

Your photos are nice don't get me wrong, there are things you could improve though...little things like making sure the horizons are dead level, the post(?) in the bottom right of the second photo is very distracting and should be cropped/cloned out etc.


I personally wouldn't even try submitting my own work, as I know for well that a pro would have taken the same shot as me (in those landscape locations) and done a much better job (than me).

Cheers for the advice mate - yeah these are just raw photos,so havnt had time yet to crop the post out or (tried) to straighten them etc. I did look on the IStock site a while ago,and they seemed to be after people & crowd shots rather than landscape & nature ones. I suppose anyone with a decent camera can go out and take similar ones - on the other hand,there must always be some people out there who are willing to pay for these kind of shots..

 

[Wilkeh]

With regards to the landscape shots that have been taken, isn't the general rule that it shouldn't be 50/50 (as in 50% sky and 50% land) but it should be 33% of one and 66% of the other? It doesn't matter which way round. That was one of the first things we were taught in photography class at college.

 

[Brazo]

^^Rule of thirds you mean. Yes thats one rule, a 60/40 split also works nicely imo and a square can be nice too with a 50:50 split. To be honest there are a lot of compositional rules but they all stem from fine art.

Am happy to have all the C&C on the world on this one, took it on Sunday with my 10 stopper. Its St Pauls
, was alsmots trying to make some sort of apocolyptic statement lol. Do I spend the time to process it properly or nice idea, didn't really work!

Empty by Brazo76, on Flickr

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

I like the leading lines you created using the barrier things (or whoever you call them), so the composition is good...although perhaps a bit on the 50:50 side.

There's something odd about the B+W post processing though. Hard to explain, it's almost as if you made one of those dramatic HDR shots, then grey scaled it. Maybe a bit more contrast, so it's more 'punchy'?

 

[leemckew]

DSCF0404 by leemc172, on Flickr

 

[TOGUSA]

playing around with tilt shift look

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Really like that.

 

[Robiniho77]

Sunset by Liam J Robinson, on Flickr

Face Mask by Liam J Robinson, on Flickr

CRX by Liam J Robinson, on Flickr

Horse by Liam J Robinson, on Flickr

A Couple of my work recently...Now with my Nifty 50! Still learning!

 

[Robiniho77]

Table in Autumn by Liam J Robinson, on Flickr

One more!!

 

[timuss]

Im a big airshow fan and this probably ranks as the best shot, ive taken so far:

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[Brazo]

Thats cool Tim! Just nosed your exif and you used a 400mm lens, was the shot cropped at all, as you can see the pilots!

 

[Brazo]

Another shot from St Katherine Docks London, Has been cropped top and bottom and exposure adjusted but yes the sky really was that colour! And its as straight as its getting


[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/brazo76/6848107823/]St Katherines Docks by Brazo76, on Flickr[/URL]

 

[timuss]

Thats cool Tim! Just nosed your exif and you used a 400mm lens, was the shot cropped at all, as you can see the pilots!

To be honest i dont think it was i took it from Beachy Head Cliffs just outside of Eastbourne so we were slightly elevated, and they came straight over the top of us.

 

[timuss]

Another shot from St Katherine Docks London, Has been cropped top and bottom and exposure adjusted but yes the sky really was that colour! And its as straight as its getting

St Katherines Docks by Brazo76, on Flickr

Lovely reflections and that colour is amazing.

 

[Niall]

Lego man taking a stroll by Niall97, on Flickr

 

[ch!ppen]

Love that Brazo...

Mine from the weekend:

snowywalk by chippen172, on Flickr

 

[v15ben]

Bit of a joke shot this one, but I probably should clean my car!

Clean Car Details! by v15ben, on Flickr

 

[Tonys]

Had to get a picture of the sun going down tonight as i haven't seen if for a week or so.
Thought the red sky was pretty impressive.

Red sky at night..... by ts446, on Flickr

 

[Joe#]

cards by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

 

[ch!ppen]

seated by chippen172, on Flickr

 

[The Fatty]

playing around with tilt shift look

Really like this... 10/10!

 

[Brazo]

Forest Fire by Brazo76, on Flickr

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

^nice! Was that this morning's sunrise?

 

[Brazo]

^nice! Was that this morning's sunrise?

I hope not as I turned back over in bed as it was so cold when my alarm went off at 6.15am

Its a sunset from a a few weeks back now, was very intense but very short lived, literally my next 3-4 exposures had nothing of the intensity.