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Jan 22, 2018 22:51:30   #
joe west wrote:
you can have the red one, the black is mine...

The current owners are not likely to let these beauties go, if they were the red one is still my favourite car of all time.
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Jan 22, 2018 18:44:04   #
ken_stern wrote:
Nice photos
Seeing the Alfa -- Brought back bittersweet memories -- At one time we owned a 1976 Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT -- Great looking & a real blast to drive -- that is when it wasn't in the shop -- which as I recall was just about always --- The repair shop was where all the Alfa owners got to meet, complain & wish they owned Hondas


Three of us had to push the Alfa a rather excessive distance to get it started twice and it started leaking a touch a fuel at the very end of the shoot, this is one of the first times the owner had problems with it. The first time I saw the car was in Leavenworth, a town across a mountain range about 4 hours away. They're temperamental little cars but I love them to no end!
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Jan 22, 2018 18:00:26   #
These are two cars that I initially dreamt of shooting when I first saw saw them over last summer but I eventually met the owners at later car events and finally organized this shoot. I believe this is my best set so far, and I haven't gotten the the film back from the lab yet. I decided to baptize a recently purchased Pentax 645 on the same day so I was shooting film and digital. I'll update this when I receive the film scans in the next few days. Any CC is much appreciated!


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Jan 12, 2018 16:10:09   #
I'm starting to get the hang of consistently manual focusing on faster moving objects, now only if I had a third hand for the polarizer


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Dec 31, 2017 00:07:01   #
autofocus wrote:
I know manners are becoming a thing of the past, but a thank you would be nice!

I'm sorry, I appreciate the advice. I've been insanely busy so I'm on the forum rather intermittently.


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Dec 2, 2017 16:11:05   #
dpullum wrote:
DNW's Spectacular! is not a constructive criticism... but certainly a true statement, indeed ! Crop is my drink, I am a cropahaulic.
#1 stop my visual search by cropping top down to the part in the hair. You already cropped on right in hair.. good.
#2 Crop just below the bust line and to the edge of the rt shoulder
#3 Crop bust line and finger tip.. big white line... nothing to do with the story
#4 Crop just at the top of the 7 rings.. the out of focus bubble has nothing to do with the distinct curves. Excellent
#5 &6 Tighten the top.
#7 fine as is .. good shot indeed
#8 tighten top and right
#9 top down to just above the silver chain.... on right crop near the hair down fall... what do we care about the back ground.. story is she and the left.
#10 Crop out the far left light column ... crop down to 1/2 of the over exposed umbrella panel... crop right to just one colored dot beyond the rt shoulder tip.

aaa yes, my lust for cropping will be made happy with those changes... frankly the whole grouping is excellent... just that I was trained that crop is the most important story telling tool.
The last post you refer to was.....?
DNW's Spectacular! is not a constructive criticism... (show quote)


The only cropping I usually do is to a different aspect ratio such as 4x5 or 16x9, I'll try it more in the future since I have spare megapixels to play with. The previous post it was pointed out that I had everyone's eyes in the middle of the frame so the compositions were all lacking.
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Dec 2, 2017 03:00:55   #
I took the most useful advice that I received from my last post and tried to apply it to the portraits I've taken since then, here's the results. Any constructive criticism is much appreciated!


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Nov 15, 2017 01:30:23   #
Photog8 wrote:
Very good start. My only comment would be too much negative space above the subjects a result of centering them. The second to last is okay because it helps define the situation, but the rest could be cropped more into the subjects. Keep practicing. I'd like to see more of your work. ;-)

I didn't notice this at all until you mentioned it, everyone's eyes are in the middle of the frame. I'll keep this in mind as I'm shooting tomorrow, I think it's from me using the centerpoint focus confirmation on manual lenses and not reframing
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Nov 13, 2017 16:52:25   #
jccash wrote:
Nice pictures but every picture of a 911 is exciting to me. LOL

There's loads of them out here in the PNW, although I can't vibe as much with the people in the Porsche community. It's probably because my favorite Porsche is the 928 which most have a strong disdain for...


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Nov 13, 2017 03:32:44   #
I've been hitting a creative wall lately on automotive photos so I haven't been taking as many in the last month. Does anyone have a good recommendation on any books related to composition in art or the golden ratio? I feel if I try to push harder in the art side rather than the cars themselves I might improve...
The photos are a collection from random events from the last 5 weeks or so. Any constructive criticism is much appreciated.


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Manual focus at 85mm at 1/80th is a PITA for moving subjects

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Nov 13, 2017 02:57:34   #
Last month I began to delve in portraiture, here is my progress thus far. Any constructive criticism is much appreciated, I don't learn from comments like "nice pic". The last set was the hardest because it was an unfamiliar theme (steampunk) at an open shoot at an unfamiliar location. I also already realized that the DOF on the last photo makes the googles on his hat look strange...


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Nov 13, 2017 02:49:42   #
glyphtrix wrote:
FROM AN IRS WEBPAGE:

Hobby vs. Business
For tax purposes, a hobby is defined as an activity that you engage in “for sport or recreation, not to make a profit.” Even if you earn occasional income from doing such an activity, the primary purpose must be something other than making a profit.

To distinguish between a hobby and a business, you must take into account all the facts and circumstances of your situation. The IRS lays out the following 9 factors that should be considered when establishing if an activity is a business engaged in making a profit:

Whether you carry on the activity in a businesslike manner
Whether the time and effort you put into the activity indicate that you intend to make it profitable
Whether you depend on income from the activity for your livelihood
Whether your losses are due to circumstances beyond your control, or are normal in the startup phase of your type of business
Whether you adjust your methods of operation in an attempt to improve profitability
Whether you (or your advisors) have the knowledge needed to carry on the activity as a successful business
Whether you were successful in making a profit in similar activities in the past
Whether the activity makes a profit in some years, and how much profit it makes
Whether you can expect to make a future profit from the appreciation of the assets used in the activity
According to the IRS, an activity is deemed as a business if it makes a profit during at least 3 of the last 5 tax years, including the current year — or at least 2 of the last 7 years if the activities mainly consist of breeding, showing, training, or racing horses.
FROM AN IRS WEBPAGE: br br Hobby vs. Business br ... (show quote)


I fail several of those stipulations so I'm still at the enthusiast level I presume. Thanks for the complete answer!
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Nov 13, 2017 02:47:26   #
James56 wrote:
Way to go...and just think, it took me nearly 30 years of hard work just to get a 1st place ribbon at the State Fair. Your awesome Dude...Woo Hoo. How did you pay rent previous to this? These are fine cars...but the photography of them...honestly, not so good.


Yep these are just a few snaps from wandering around, I sell the rights to my images so I can't post anything I profit from... Most of the stuff I make money from is either from events I've hosted or from taking photos for detailing shops/private car events for advertising on social media. That being said I found my compositions lacking for cars since they were all melding together so I've been working on new things.

That being said I've only won one award, it was best of show for a photo of a frog that I took 2 weeks after I got my first DSLR. It was at a small county fair though so I don't think it bears much merit.


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Oct 9, 2017 12:18:59   #
CHG_CANON wrote:
The first image displays completely different when viewed from the download. I believe you need to look at your color space, particularly the color space used when creating the images to be used for online sharing. This older discussion appears to demonstrate the exact same issue: http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-362867-1.html


I've already gone though all of this, I just updated to Photoshop CC from CS6 and started having these problems even after tweaking settings, I'll triple check when I get home though. The weird thing is when I save at stock resolution as a PNG out gets the same colour change even with the same export method...
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Oct 9, 2017 11:19:16   #
I recently did my first portraiture shoot in over a year with little experience other than doing some senior photos in high school before that. It was the first time the woman had tried modeling so we struggled with posing for a bit and found a few pleasing results.
Looking for constructive criticism on the photos, and also an explanation as to why the colors turn muddy on some platforms when saving as a full res jpeg file vs a PNG (added other format of last file for comparison).


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