I really like the first photo, Ppv! The colors are really nice and the flower looks really soft. I don't know much about design, but they're pretty cool :D
Thank you very much!
It's old stuff so I'm glad you like it!
I have a lot of photography that I would love people to take a look at.....Its all on my facebook but obviously not everyone can see that so Iv been slowly adding it to a deviantart account
http://t-rav88.deviantart.com/
Choose any that you want to talk about, granted some of this stuff wasnt really meant to be "artsy fartsy"
The older shots from the concert, etc. aren't that great to be honest, but one or two of them are all right. The newer stuff is much better, although some of the "fashion" portraits look a little more like emotive or expressive portraits. Still good, just miscategorized in my opinion. The black-and-white one is one of the best, and that one actually seems more like a fashion portrait. Very good job there. Keep it up and keep practicing!
That said...
@ Ppv: First photo we've had in a long time. The depth looks really nice. It would be better I think if the flower was fully in focus though, left side's kind of blurry. Nice capture, I like the colors there.
To be frank I dunno how well those would work as T shirts. Your design bleeds off outside of the border, and it looks like the main points of focus are not in the center. Seems like a better T-shirt design would have the 2 characters near the center with the words across the chest. The smudging is pretty random looking, I think if they were smudged outwards from the center in a radial fashion it'd look more dynamic. Version 1 has better colors to me. I think you should get rid of the purple box around Insomniac games, let the words sit on their own. And I'm guessing bhatt0507 wouldn't be on the shirt but is more like a watermark/proof of ownership kind of thing? Dude on the right is low quality so I'd scrap him or find a better image. But if this is old stuff then I guess you've improved since, eh.
Thank you! I was just getting into photography then so I wasn't exactly great, and only using a point-and-shoot I had to leave focusing to the camera. What I really tried to capture with that shot was the lighting, which I thought looked nice when I was taking it...
The designs are some of my oldest stuff... the 'bhatt0507' bit is his profile name / username so that's why it was on there. My monitor was (and still is) a little too dark, so I didn't actually notice the purple around the Insomniac logo until I highlighted it in my web browser. Without that, all my monitor shows is black around the words, so I thought I was OK
I can understand most of the other stuff now, as again this was one of the earliest things I did. My friend liked it, so at least the customer satisfaction was good
The enemy on the right was a last-minute addition, and I definitely didn't put in as much effort there as I should have. Thank you for the critique and advice!
@Master Ppv
The shirts are cool, but I feel like there's too many things competing for my eyes' attention. I want to look at Resistance, but then I look at the... zombie man in front. The text also kind of pops out, and then Insomniac is there too. So essentially everything pops out XD
You should either make some of these elements more subtle, or remove them entirely. If you may allow some jargon, there isnt much flow or composition to the piece, even though the elements themselves are good.
@All
I made a banner for a new Smash clan's forum. CnC please.
Thanks for the advice! I'm a little better now, so I've realized not to make some of these mistakes. Thanks for the help; hope I can keep improving!
Master PPv-
Nice shot....if you were able to re shoot that again I would deff recommend trying to get a macro style lens or maybe something with a stronger depth of field.
Though you said you took it a long time ago so that probably cant happen....lol
Haha, I had a point-and-shoot on macro mode for this; aside from composition there wasn't much I could do. Focusing, depth of field, etc. were all out of my control. Now that I have a DSLR and have more control I've been experimenting and getting better. I've put a slightly newer shot below; so you can judge for yourself.
Oh look. A photographer!
:D
Do you know anything about the Nikon D3000? I been hearing bad things about it lately, and I'm a little down. I spent $550 on a new one at Best buy. I sorta got hasty. I saw good reviews for it, but several people are bashing it. I want to feel better about myself.
Don't worry about them... The D3000 is what I have now and I love it! It's not the tool that takes the pictures - it's the photographer. As long as you've got a good eye and know what you're doing, you can take amazing pictures with just about any camera. My point-and-shoot was doing all the focusing for me before; now that I know what I'm doing with the focus when using the D3000, I can produce (in my opinion) better pictures than I did before. As for how the D3000 can perform in practice, I've posted some of my stuff from it below, so see for yourself what it can do
Most of my 3d stuffs are going towards
I'm jealous... These are great! I can't wait to see how that image looks once it's been fully animated! The Sakurai and Geno models are brilliant, even if the Sakurai one isn't finished yet. You're doing really well; keep it up!
ALL RIGHT...
Now here's some of my newer stuff!
This one was on my point-and-shoot, like the other one I posted. Not much else to say about this that it doesn't say for itself.
AND NOW... THE D3000!!!
This one was from the first time I went outside with my then-new Nikon D3000. I'd been experimenting inside a bit and learning how to use it, and decided to go out and try it out. Aside from very small brightness and saturation adjustments, this is pretty much out-of-the-camera. Please do keep in mind this is still pretty old, as it was taken in November or December 2009
Around this time, I started providing my school's website with pictures from sports games, school events, etc. This one is from the first basketball game I shot with the D3000 - around the middle of January 2010.
You can do better, and the pikachu kinda just looks like its just standing there as if its posing. You might wanna try to add more action to the piece, more motion blur, less scratchy scratchy in the bg, and stuff :3.
