The Creative Photography Thread v9 - "Take a whetstone to your lens for a sharper image."

[Pickwickian]

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Nikon D60, 35mm f1.8[/QUOTE]

Good, solid, CONSISTENT set of portraits there. Focus is spot on, and the B&W works well.
I feel I could be friends with every one of those people - you've captured them well I believe.

[QUOTE=MrFishcake;44410115]The central library in manchester just opened last week and its a really nice place for photo's

I didn't have my camera with me at the time but still managed to get a couple of half decent ones with my phone.

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Fuck me, phones are getting good these days.

[Zeemlapje]

[QUOTE=Pickwickian-;44410388]I feel I could be friends with every one of those people - you've captured them well I believe.[/QUOTE]

wow m8, I never thought about street portraiture from this point of view. u just blew my mind, seriously

[MrFishcake]

[QUOTE=Pickwickian-;44410388]Fuck me, phones are getting good these days.[/QUOTE]

iPhone 5s.

The two I posted earlier on this page were taken by my 5s too.

[booster]

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[Trogdon]

i'm running out of places to take photos in my house!!

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[Desuh]

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[Thaard]

smipe

[Desuh]

[QUOTE=Thaard;44413718]Finally got this fixed. Now for some days of rest.
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There still is vertical distortion :V

I am not a pro at this but I think I fixed it.

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[Thaard]

how the heck did you do that?

[cordell]

[I]Pensacola.[/I]
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[I]Grasshopper.[/I]
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[I]Grandparent's land.[/I]
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[I]Asian restaurant.[/I]
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[I]Rainy day at my place.[/I]
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All pictures took by phone and are from my Instagram.

Obviously I'm not a pro photographer.

[Him1411]

none of us here are pro photographers by any stretch mate (bare one or two who actually earn a living from it). You're photos are solid, keep it up.

[editline]1st April 2014[/editline]

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[BoSoZoku]

[QUOTE=Thaard;44414511]how the heck did you do that?[/QUOTE]

If you have Lightroom there's a section dedicated to correcting lens distortion, in Photoshop (or similar programs) you can just use the free transform tool and pull/move the corners as needed to straighten the image than crop if necessary.

[Him1411]

-snipe-

[editline]1st April 2014[/editline]

dunno if i posted this one, dont hate if i did

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[Foos]

Found two rolls in my room that were just hanging out, so I got them developed. Turns out they're really old, only 3 images from them are worth sharing imo (and that's stretching it, to be honest. Like wow, number three is bad but I still think it's interesting enough to show here?)

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[rammaster]

Went to a shady carnival that rolled into town and thought it'd be a nice place to use my recently acquired 50mm. I am loving this lens. I feel as tho I have trouble focusing shots and I always feel like the image could have been sharper or I always focus on the wrong thing. I don't know if it's my settings or just autofocus freaking out. Maybe I should try using manual focus more. C&C on these?

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also, taking photos on a wildly moving vehicle is fun but very disorienting lol.

oh gawd, this stretched the page so much...

[BlazeFresh]

top one is awesome, looks like a film still.

[sloppy_joes]

the top one is very good, cant say im a fan of 5 and 6 but the rest are very nice.

[Thaard]

Lol, dunno why I didn't think of warp transform in PS. Thanks for the tips
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[BoSoZoku]

This place kicked my butt, I had a hard time finding stuff (that caught my eye) that wasn't hidden behind a gazillion branches, it was fun nonetheless.

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Samyang 85mm as always.

[Thaard]

more selfies i guess
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[.Lain]

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[Desuh]

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[strider]

killin it as usual except maybe pic 8 not feelin it

[Zeemlapje]

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Chemtrails, RIP me

[.Lain]

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[Eltro102]

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actually in love with this one tbh

[editline]1st April 2014[/editline]

is [URL="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4ce1077f22369800c82ed98524a46b31/tumblr_n3dhr6TWH11t2gkwbo1_1280.jpg"]this[/URL] too big? should i

[Graviolies]

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Mixed Kodak Easyshare and Nikon D80 1.8 35mm and stock 3.5 55mm

Since I haven't posted before I thought I'd post some of my favorites for critique since I'm just now starting to get back into photography after having taken a break for a while.

[BlazeFresh]

way too big dudes

[Eltro102]

is there any way i could use that 100mp scan it's like 10k x 10k px big like could i use that mad resoslution to do some mad sharpening i mean i already used it for noise reduct and it worked p well but idk why else it owuld be worth doing it that big

[Graviolies]

[QUOTE=BlazeFresh;44423839]way too big dudes[/QUOTE]

Oops I'll re size when I get back to a computer