The Photography Thread

[CharlieDontSurf]

I recently saw this pic that i thought was great by a photog in Iraq.

[suzzer99]

Bytor, the ppl on the beach is awesome. Like the stages of life or something.

Edit: duh, just saw your caption

[AllinDan]

A couple more since I'm trying to do anything but study for my midterm.


Ancient Roman Ruins on the southern coast of Turkey:




A friend of mine standing in front of a projector:

I think this is still my favorite picture I ever took, but I took it on my old super low res camera, and it was really just a lucky shot

[bwana devil]

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But for now, I just want to address one major flaw I keep seeing in pictures people take of friends. When you're shooting a frame, keep in mind the composition of the image -- where the subject lies in the frame. (Yes, obviously pics can be cropped digitally after the fact, but it's easier just to shoot it correctly).

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good post PJ, one thing i see a lot of that is quick to adjust is when shooting landscape people shoot too much sky. generally sky should be in the top 1/3 of the frame; land in the bottom 2/3.

oh and to anyone really interested, checkout www.photo.net it's the photo version of 2+2.

[By-Tor]

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Bytor, the ppl on the beach is awesome. Like the stages of life or something.

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Thanks!

That is actually one of my favorite photos I have ever taken. I got very fortunate with that shot. It is only cropped a very small portion at the top for composure.

I went back and edited to add captions prior to your post and it looks like we have the same line of thinking on that one...

[divides_by_zero]

I know what you mean about your first instinct wanting to be to capture strictly the nature.

This wasn't a nature shot, but I was expecting to later crop out the people in the corner. On looking at the shot later I realize they made the picture.



I love lines and shadow:



My current desktop:


And out my other window:

[jaminbird]

This is one I took at my parents house in palm springs, it was 2 photo's that I stuck togeather so I could use it for my desktop background.



This is just a random one that I took of some beach condo on Coronado island, but for some reason I enjoy it.

[GrandmaStabone]

[IggyWH]

pj,

Mind going into a little more detail on why the no examples are wrong and why the yes examples are correct? I've never heard of this before.

I can understand the nature shots with the 1/3 sky & 1/3 land, but if you're taking pictures of friends, and it's just the friends you care about and not where they are at, then why would you offset them?

[private joker]

Iggy -- it just looks better and it's more flattering. By framing somebody so their entire head is in a closeup, their chin ends up being too low to the bottom of the frame, their eyes too far down, and it's not as powerful.

In a wider shot, offsetting them a bit to the thirds of the frame as opposed to halfway in just provides a better composition. Your eyes have a natural rectangular field of vision, not a square or round one. That is, you can see more off to the sides than you can above and below in your periphery. Therefore, it's more pleasing to see images that sit from side to side (this is why film aspect ratios are wider than they are tall -- "widescreen") than ones that are narrow and make you read it from top to bottom.

EDIT: Here's a good example from "Kill Bill," shot by one of the best DPs in the biz, Bob Richardson (he also shot A Few Good Men, JFK, and Snow Falling On Cedars)/



And from a Chinese action flick:



You just want the strongest subjects of the frame in those intersecting points.