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#8135304 - 03/18/15 03:40 PM Critique me, please.
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Church Sunset by mgproudfit1, on Flickr

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First time shooting a sunset with the new camera setup. I was driving home from my original location and saw the church silhouetted against the sky. The colors are untouched from original. I did an (admittedly) awful job on removing a cell tower in the middle of the pic but I was just using Pixlr (no PS yet). This was taken by hand (no tripod).

Why is there a vignette on the upper left and right corners?

Edited by 2000CivicStud (03/18/15 03:42 PM)
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#8135306 - 03/18/15 03:43 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: 2000CheetahStud]
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best bit of advice that I can give you that I've received from everyone on here is the rule of thirds. look it up. also by the book understanding composition
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#8135353 - 03/18/15 04:01 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: Duc]
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I think Duc means this book:
http://www.amazon.ca/Understanding-Expos...anding+exposure

Also this one by the same author:
http://www.amazon.ca/Learning-See-Creati...26712508&sr=1-1


Tell us, in detail, how you took the shot.
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#8135358 - 03/18/15 04:04 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: Senor Eduardo_82]
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Looks to be some weird cloning artifacts along the bottom middle?
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#8135361 - 03/18/15 04:08 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: Senor Eduardo_82]
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Setting "P"
1/250
F5.6
ISO 100

No tripod. I jumped out of the car, grabbed the camera, and took that, and a few others. I changed the exposure settings to get different colors in the sky.
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#8135365 - 03/18/15 04:12 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: 2000CheetahStud]
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Here are two others, unedited, from the same position:

DSC_0144 by mgproudfit1, on Flickr

DSC_0139 by mgproudfit1, on Flickr

You can see the cell tower I edited out.
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#8135378 - 03/18/15 04:18 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: 2000CheetahStud]
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DSC_0139 by mgproudfit1, on Flickr

A little brightness/contrast went a long way on that pic.
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#8135410 - 03/18/15 04:36 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: 2000CheetahStud]
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I took the first unedited you posted and did a few quick things... Ignore the super fast removal of a few things, but I felt besides the tower the big lights needed to be removed as well.



I actually added a tick of exposure, felt they were too dark. Got ride of any color in the black of the church and shit... Then added some contrast. also did a tick of sharpening on the edges of the church and shit, very soft in the original sized images. I don't know, I hate editing jpg files... RAW for life!!!

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#8135558 - 03/18/15 06:08 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: Huggy]
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I ordered that book and got a tripod.
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#8135580 - 03/18/15 06:27 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: 2000CheetahStud]
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It sounds weird, but I honestly think the mood here would be suited to a reduction in saturation, it's less expected and I'm not loving the colors actually. Something a little more somber/low key.
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#8135615 - 03/18/15 06:45 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: Huggy]
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...oh, the photos?

Framing and get rid of the cell tower.
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#8135671 - 03/18/15 07:36 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: Kierf]
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What framing adjustments would have made the pic better?

Full disclosure: There was a HUGE "HORSESHOE CASINO" sign just under the picture. I had to keep it up high enough to avoid that.
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#8135783 - 03/18/15 08:57 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: 2000CheetahStud]
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 Originally Posted By: 2000CivicStud
What framing adjustments would have made the pic better?

Full disclosure: There was a HUGE "HORSESHOE CASINO" sign just under the picture. I had to keep it up high enough to avoid that.


Something like this.
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#8138306 - 03/20/15 03:38 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: Kierf]
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^Agreed, though it's subjective. The lower elements of yoru original photo are a little distracting and take away from the photo, but post processing will help immensely here. Even a gritty B&W would be cool.
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#8138342 - 03/20/15 04:05 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: ]
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 Originally Posted By: tenplanescrashing
^Agreed, though it's subjective. The lower elements of yoru original photo are a little distracting and take away from the photo, but post processing will help immensely here. Even a gritty B&W would be cool.
I agree about the B&W. I'm pretty shit with post processing. I looked at it in B&W and the idea looks good. I just can't make it actually look good.
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#8144952 - 03/25/15 09:34 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: Kierf]
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Instead of cloning out that antenna, use spot healing brush in Photoshop. It's context-sensitive and it'll fill in the clouds in a random pattern instead of with those lines.

If you insist on cloning, use a much softer brush and it won't be so obvious.
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#8145088 - 03/26/15 12:29 AM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: MetalheaD]
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It isn't obvious...because I didn't use cloning.

Seriously though, I didn't. I used context-aware filling. I can't remember what it's called. Highlight an area, delete it, use context-aware to fill it in. It was a 5 minute job at best.
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#8150074 - 03/29/15 02:23 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: Kierf]
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That looks like shit man lol. Come on.

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#8150336 - 03/29/15 07:46 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: Nate047]
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#8150355 - 03/29/15 08:19 PM Re: Critique me, please. [Re: Nate047]
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 Originally Posted By: Nate047
That looks like shit man lol. Come on.

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Something like this.
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