AL's Photo Gallery

[Autistic Lucario]

I've been dabbling in photography lately, so I've decided to share some of my work. :)

"image removed" - My backyard

"image removed" - Pretty Sky outside my window

"image removed" - Another pretty sky

"image removed" - Another photo of my backyard

"image removed" - Something pretty I noticed on my kitchen door window

 

[moments.]

First of all, mainly as a pet peeve more than anything else, but if you are doing photography for art purposes rather than like a family holiday, I've always been inclined to turn the date-stamp at the bottom right off. That said, each to his own. ;)

Ok, you've got some nice photos but the best ones seem just to be the best because of the content, not so much the techniques used. That said, your first and second last photograph are a little boring, only because the content isn't particularly fascinating, and you haven't used any fancy shutter speeds or framing to achieve something a little more interesting. Again, your last image of the glitter on the window is actually quite nice to look at, however if you had framed it a little better (straight on, maybe capture the full window frame as well) it would be a really great photo.

I'm not sure what kind of camera you are using, whether you have more than one lens and stuff like that, but if you take one thing from this comment, take framing. When you see something you want to photograph, don't just take the picture straight away. Look through the viewfinder / screen and see what it looks like. Then move around a little bit, play closer and further away and see what looks better. Just take your time taking the photos is what I'm saying. If you want to see Photography as art, you need to appreciate that art takes time. Just because photography can be done quickly, it doesn't mean it should.

Hope that was alright as general comments and not too harsh.

 

[Autistic Lucario]

First of all, mainly as a pet peeve more than anything else, but if you are doing photography for art purposes rather than like a family holiday, I've always been inclined to turn the date-stamp at the bottom right off. That said, each to his own. ;)

Ok, you've got some nice photos but the best ones seem just to be the best because of the content, not so much the techniques used. That said, your first and second last photograph are a little boring, only because the content isn't particularly fascinating, and you haven't used any fancy shutter speeds or framing to achieve something a little more interesting. Again, your last image of the glitter on the window is actually quite nice to look at, however if you had framed it a little better (straight on, maybe capture the full window frame as well) it would be a really great photo.

I'm not sure what kind of camera you are using, whether you have more than one lens and stuff like that, but if you take one thing from this comment, take framing. When you see something you want to photograph, don't just take the picture straight away. Look through the viewfinder / screen and see what it looks like. Then move around a little bit, play closer and further away and see what looks better. Just take your time taking the photos is what I'm saying. If you want to see Photography as art, you need to appreciate that art takes time. Just because photography can be done quickly, it doesn't mean it should.

Hope that was alright as general comments and not too harsh.

Thanks for the critique. I do happen to have a better picture of the glitter on the window, but that was for mom as a gift. I do have it on DA here:

https://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/223/9/1/a_tribute_to_family_by_malfunit-d4668z5.png

 

[Ho-Oh]

Yeah agreed with moments, pretty much. I'm going to go into specific details on the other photos he didn't really mention much though! Either way, for the second one, the houses below the sky kinda take away from it, because you've got this light building up then this sudden dull darker colour. That's something you can't really change though, but photos do look a lot nicer if they're of the sky if the entire sky is in frame without anything in the way of it - and if there is, for there to be some lighting on the houses so it doesn't look "in the way" and rather apart of the photo as a kind of prop. Also best to avoid things like pole lines and stuff since they distract from the view. Aaand angles, it's kinda positioned on an angle so you don't really know what exactly you're looking at when first viewing it. Basically in other words, if the houses weren't there, the side angle would look a lot better.

As for the first one, yeah it's not particularily exciting. Mainly because there's nothing you're really concentrating on other than the little tree in the centre - what makes it special & stand out? because otherwise according to the rule of thirds not much is happening there. If you wanted to concentrate on it, to a "different" angle, go close and low, then have the sides of it pointed upwards towards the sky so you see it from a lower angle. I dunno, I've always found point and shoot shots of plants as kinda boring and I prefer experimenting with them up close with different angles. Also the plants on the left in the foreground kind of take from the image, so if you moved forward a little or across a little it'd be a lot nicer. Yeah just be creative basically!

Third has a few issues here. Taking a photo through a dirty mirror always takes from the quality, sadly, since you can see the marks in the mirror on the side and it's just distracting for those who view it. Adding to that, I can also slightly see a relfection which is also a tell-tale sign of it being from a window. Sometimes, window shots can't be avoided (for example recently with me I was on a boat and I had to take photos from out of the window and avoiding the dirt spots was sooo annoying, but it finally paid off after a while and I got some really nice shots). Generally though in that case if the dirt spots aren't that bad and kind of distant you can somewhat get away with that, though best not to enter it as a professional photo, since professionals avoid those things as much as they can. Also, it's kind of blurry, which isn't a good thing, and it lacks lighting. So... yeah, window shots work a lot better during the day than during the night because you get natural light and you don't necessarily need flash in all situations, while at night if you use flash the dirt spots show up worse and everything is contrasted weirdly (unless you have a professional camera). Watch out for the houses too, but yeah just take note of those things in the future.

Second last one kind of has the same issue as the first one as mentioned so I won't really comment on that. Aaand the last one was covered, so yeah. Good luck with future photography though! Hopefully you do continue to post more here. :)