The Photography Thread

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Mad Doug Biker

Just a damaged guy.
Location
Craggy Island
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See!:banghead:
I'm trying to attach photos from iPhoto using a mac... that's probably my first mistake.

If you can, load them onto a site like Flickr or Picassa and send us the link.
 

on the road

Über Member
Everyone's a critic :rolleyes:
 

Mad Doug Biker

Just a damaged guy.
Location
Craggy Island
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Zeus and I walking to the sea at Barmouth Beach

A nice snapshot, although its a funny colour, the horizon is squint (the camera position, I know), and actually, something similar to what you have in your avatar in square format would look just as good - I would get rid of the distracting bit of wave to the far right, and also crop it at the top or bottom so that you aren't standing right in the middle of the left part of the picture (rule of thirds and all that)

Heading towards Munro number 6 on the south glen Shiel ridge
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Nice lines, nice colours, there is nothing much wrong with it, although at the time I would have been inclined to have zoomed out if possible and included the brown hillside at the right converging with the mountain behind. Depending on that was on the left side, you could have made a sort of diamond shape. That would have altered the over all composition though obviously.

Also I might have cropped the sky down ever so slightly, but that is an optional thing.

Zeus full dive after his ball at local lake View attachment 13592

A good attempt at an action picture, but he's blurred unfortunately.


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Zeus and I on top of Ben

The last picture.... Well, Zeus's bum has been cut off for a start! :laugh:
 

jonny jeez

Legendary Member
Never liked the access it gives Flickr, LinkedIN and Facebook and the like into your computer. If I can't do it myself, I'm not happy giving software access to my details!
Photobucket is your friend. upload the image to that then click the image you want from your gallery (once uploaded), it copies the URl, which you then paste into the "insert /edit image" option on a post (third right).

Simples
 
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HovR

Über Member
Location
Plymouth
Please don't take this personally, I have seen this in various other pictures on the thread but I'll give a bit of constructive criticism here: one of the biggest mistakes people make is to have a huge featureless sky. Yes, it might be blue etc, but its still empty and boring (Good dramatic clouds are far better, but if you can't get those, then try and shoot early in the morning or later in the day when you can get some nice shadows).

Personally, I'd crop the sky to just the right point to put more emphasis on the road/path and the converging verticals, but even then there isn't much to emphasise! (Someone or something on the path or to the right of it at just the right position would have helped enormously. The picture is empty otherwise you see).

Sorry folks, old habits die hard 'fraid and I'm being a di*k, I know.

Thanks for the feedback.

Unfortunately in California, during the middle of summer, dramatic clouds are few and far-between, so I worked with what I had! I agree that something on the road would have looked good (if only one of the native locals had been going down the road on horseback, as they occasionally do) but time was limited and we had to move on.

I'll experiment with cropping down the photo. :smile:
 
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