What do you think?

Duckys54

A few of my friends were just messing around after school and I took a few shots. Initially, the shot was kind of blah (seen here) but I didn't think he stood out at all and the white balance was off. So I made a few changes and wondering what you guys think?

After:

zacker

looks good to me... nice one. any more?

will-jum

If i'm honest, not a very strong shot.

Hyllmark92

I think you've done the bg very good. Also that expression in his face is good, you have captioned "the moment"

NeilL

It's good to see more and more of the 40D in action in DGrin!

Your pic is an ordinary kind of snap but it is ordinary too in a good way, that is, there is nothing bad about it

The best thing is that you are POSTING!

atomicjade

I'm not an expert by any means, but the knob on the bass is slightly chipped off the frame and it draws my eye towards that more than anything. I'm also not fond of the lines in the background.

Other than that, it's very crisp and clear!

Duckys54

I have a few more but they aren't edited. Tomorrow I will work on them some more.

will-jum wrote:

If i'm honest, not a very strong shot.

What don't you like about it?

Paulcao

will-jum wrote:

If i'm honest, not a very strong shot.

I think you should offer some suggestions if you're going to criticize a shot.

SloYerRoll

Hey Trevor,

I'll give you a critique

I think you did a great job exposing the shot. Chose a good angle that didn't have anything busy in the background to compete.

It looks to me that you were zoomed out pretty close to 17mm. I can tell this because of the barreling on the upper left back wall. This is something you need to watch out for. Especially if there are allot of lines in the background.

I would have also backed out (or stepped back) a little bit so the shot didn't feel so crammed.

You might try opening up aperture 1 stop to get the whole bass guitar in focus. But that can be REALLY hard to see on a small LCD while shooting.

All in all, good shot!

I'm only providing feedback since I really believe this is what you want to hear.

Cheers,
-Jon

Duckys54

Thanks for the comments guys I'll keep that stuff in mind. Here's another shot from that night. I fixed the WB and the focus was too close between him and the BG so I made a copy of the original and put a Gaussian blur of 3/3.5 and then erased it where I wanted sharp. What do you think?

Orig:


Edited:




And since when is a 3" LCD small?

SloYerRoll

Duckys54 wrote:

And since when is a 3" LCD small?

Ever since I could look at this image on my 22" monitor and see its' soft.

Phyxius

Duckys54 wrote:

Edited:

I really like this editted one, the motion blur on the stick is great! I think the drum behind, or next to him should be infocus though. I like the background blurred. The second cymbol looks like it's not part of his set, is that intentional? Did you add curves too? The colors seem to pop more in your edit. Again, good job!

Duckys54

Phyxius wrote:

I really like this editted one, the motion blur on the stick is great! I think the drum behind, or next to him should be infocus though. I like the background blurred. The second cymbol looks like it's not part of his set, is that intentional? Did you add curves too? The colors seem to pop more in your edit. Again, good job!

All I did was I set the black point for WB/color correction. The drum behind him is not a part of his set which is why I left it out of focus; maybe I should clone/patch/heal/idk it out of the shot? The hihat infront of him is a part of the set but it was more away from him so I left it OOF.

zoomer

For me I would prefer to see more of the face in the shot.
I think you captured the action pretty well and the colors look pretty close.