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Hi all,

I've been into photography for the last 6 months fairly seriously. I go out and I shoot events around town, and also travel quite a bit to see new things. I record some of these things in my images.

Please let me know what you think. You are welcome to keep any that you like, but please let me know which ones you liked and which ones you didn't. Thank you!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifearchived/sets/72157632349309285/


Seagull by LifeArchived, on Flickr


World War II Memorial by LifeArchived, on Flickr


Night sky and planet by LifeArchived, on Flickr


Mountain backpacks by LifeArchived, on Flickr
 
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Wow, I like all of them! How into it have you been? I've been shooting for 2 years and none of my pics look this good. xD My favorite is this memorial. It has a really nice sky.
 
Hi AMorrii, thank you.

I bought the DSLR back in May I think of last year. It took me a good 3 or 4 months to get a grasp of things, and then the last 2 or 3 months I've been playing around with it pretty heavily and practicing a bit of what I've learned. I'm glad you liked the images. :)
 
Very nice Bowser I think your composition has improved in all those shots. Great job catching the bird in flight perfectly posed next to another. The composition of it just looks perfect. Also as great as those landscapes are for subjects it's also interesting to see more variety in your subject matter, time of day and some dramatic skies too!

Ok down to the only nit pick I have. Some, but not all, of your photos still have this unreal clearness between the foreground and sky. Thing is due to my lack of ever seeing a pollution free sky in person these things might actually look like that. The best example of this is in this photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifearchived/8313190856/in/set-72157632349309285/lightbox/ . This is the same lake you took a shot of before and, while I like the composition better than the previous shot, the line between the sky and mountains looks unreal. I'm not in the slightest accusing you of Photoshopping the mountains and sky together only that it gives the appearance of having merged two photos. It by no means makes it less pretty though :) . Does it really look like that or is this a quirk of a high resolution camera?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifearchived/8421510957/in/set-72157632349309285/lightbox/
Similar issue here particularly on the top left of the memorial it just looks weird. I must say though elsewhere in the photo the blue lighting and dramatic sky add emotion appropriate to a WWII monument :) .
I do prefer the other shot to that one http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifearchived/8422606724/lightbox/ though both are beautiful.

Well that's it for the nit picks. For the majority of the shots I'd be hard pressed to tell them from the professional ones in my stock photography book . Keep stretching your skills to the next level :) !

EDIT: You might want to experiment with letting the depth of field blur the distant background very, very slightly instead of holding clarity all throughout the shot. In painting often one does not finish out certain areas in order to draw the eye to others. It could end up looking horrible though just a random thought.
 
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Thanks Gerbil, I appreciate that.

Those two mountain photos are for the most part unedited. I did have to bring the highlights in the sky down because otherwise the sky was really washed out and you could barely see the clouds, and the only reason you see that result is because I shot JPEG. JPEG tends to have serious issues when you change things, like highlights, which is why you see the rim on the mountains. I hadn't noticed that, so great eye! But yeah, those are not a composite images, they're pretty much shot as is. Back when I shot this I didn't understand the difference between JPEG and RAW, and I now only shoot RAW because it does a better job of keeping the detail.

For probably most of the other photos you've seen, the clearness is just a result of shooting "wide", which is common in landscape photography. Take a look at some of Jay Patel's stuff to see what I mean.

On the monument; that must have been a shadow on it. I'm not sure. The Washington Monument is directly behind us, so maybe it was that, or maybe it was a nearby tree or building. I'm really not sure. I could have done a better job cleaning up the shadows, either way.

Thank you for the comments and compliment :)
 
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