Ameteur photography

So, there's a fair coming up, and I was hoping I could get some opinions on a few pics I could enter into the contest. I'll be the first to admit I'm not a pro, I leave that for my brother( http://www.stephanphotos.com/ ) The entry fee is $18 per picture, so I'm really trying to cut down on the amount of pictures I want to enter, lol.

thank you, and I hope you might actually like some of them, lol.

These are my not so pro pictures. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/dstephan/

here's a few I think are front runners to enter







*edit, now that I think about it, if ya'll have pictures you'd like to share, post them here!

I know next to nothing about photography, but I love these ones:






My only comment is that a lot of these shots seem oversaturated. Is that intentional?

:/ Links to your account totally didn't work. Grrr.

I know a few of them are, I find them more interesting that way (like the above one with the umbrella)...but you say a lot. I may have to go re-examine some of them then.

yea, it took me a bit to figure out how to share pics from flickr. I find you go to share, then the html code, then just pull out the .jpg part of the link.

*edit.

ok, I think I'm seeing it now, and I find I do prefer the newly adjusted picture better.

ie...
old


vs
new


editedit

this might be also a bit why my brother was trying to recommend a different HDR program than CS5, cause some of them look better without hdr at all (yea, I know its not true hdr, but when shooting with RAW, you can come pretty close)

I definitely prefer the adjusted picture between those too. Saturation can be good, but too much of it... is too much.

Just cuz you said to post shots... this is my favourite I ever took. Total luck too, I have no skill.

that is nice. I like how you managed to get the glare without washing out the rest of the picture.

when I'm taking pics with my phone or point and shoot (I just ordered a canon S95 that I can't wait to play with), sometimes I'll hold my polarized sunglasses over the lens, lol.

Never been all that good with photography, but I had this sitting on my point & shoot:



I especially like the little clouds in the right side of it that look like people.

Is it just me, or is Flikr a piece of crap?

Anyway, I've joined up and it doesn't automatically accept full-size photos, I had to upload the full-size versions manually.

These are pictures of my Grandfather's farm, I'm quite proud of them:


IMG_0503.JPG by Jaguar Mark VIII, on Flickr


IMG_0487.JPG copy by Jaguar Mark VIII, on Flickr

Melathys wrote:here's a few I think are front runners to enter





*edit, now that I think about it, if ya'll have pictures you'd like to share, post them here!

Those two look great to me.


I've never been able to take anything that I'd consider to be 'good' with a digital camera, everything always winds up washed out and faded. Even the cheap kodak disposable cameras wind up turning out better pics, heck I've even won a contest with one before.

Nikachelle wrote:Just cuz you said to post shots... this is my favourite I ever took. Total luck too, I have no skill.

Now this I like! It's as if I am actually standing right there! Every time I look at this picture my mind always start to wander away...

/a hundred thumbs up

Melathys wrote:

I like that one. Not sure if it would look better in b/w, but I do find it appealing.

Also... where did you take a picture of a giraffe that wasn't in a zoo? That's quite awesome .

It actually was in a zoo. in palm desert, ca. or was it desert springs? I get the two mixed up all the time.

these are my pictures for my first trip to maine... left at night got there at 1 am, the sun woke me up around 545 and this is what I saw




and that same night
I couldn't get the moon just right but you get the idea

and on my cruise last year, this photo was taken with my phone, and I think it looks shopped, but its not


edit: Melathys those are pretty good, I really like the industrious ones.

Rachmaninoff wrote:and that same night
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg1/ ... C00159.jpg
I couldn't get the moon just right but you get the idea

I've apparently been watching too much X-files, because my mind totally jumped to "UFO" when I saw that picture.

I took the first 3 with an underwater disposable camera when I was on St John in the USVIs a few years ago. The last 2 were taken with my iphone in Hawaii last December. I haven't treated them at all, though I like the CVS developing machine's saturation on the film ones.

i wanna go!!!

beautiful pics cerwillis

I'll always regret I didn't angle the camera up two degrees.


Somewhere in the middle of Kuai


Kids in a fairy tale.

Hopefully a Disney one, and not a Grimm's.

Edit: hah, keep forgetting I filter hotlinks.

fuzzygeek wrote:Hotlinking images is not permitted ().

geez way to hotlink from your own site

foul knave

Random pictures from random places (some of which people can probably guess). I don't know what most of the stuff on my camera does, so this is about as amateur as it gets. I think I do like photographing things as opposed to landscapes though.

theckhd wrote:

Rachmaninoff wrote:and that same night
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg1/ ... C00159.jpg
I couldn't get the moon just right but you get the idea

I've apparently been watching too much X-files, because my mind totally jumped to "UFO" when I saw that picture.

Oddly enough I just finished watching the first season, and I concur wholeheartedly .

Skye1013 wrote:

theckhd wrote:I've apparently been watching too much X-files, because my mind totally jumped to "UFO" when I saw that picture.

Oddly enough I just finished watching the first season, and I concur wholeheartedly .

I'm about to finish season 8... assuming you are watching them on netflix, your going to kill a fews days just watching season 3,4,the movie,5 I know I did

Rachmaninoff wrote:

Skye1013 wrote:

theckhd wrote:I've apparently been watching too much X-files, because my mind totally jumped to "UFO" when I saw that picture.

Oddly enough I just finished watching the first season, and I concur wholeheartedly .

I'm about to finish season 8... assuming you are watching them on netflix, your going to kill a fews days just watching season 3,4,the movie,5 I know I did

Actually... I picked up all 9 seasons from the Haji shop over here ($150.) The quality is actually pretty good, since I think they ripped it from the dvd box set. I probably won't get around to finishing it before I leave here though, but I'll have plenty of time to watch it back in Germany during my 2 weeks of R&R .

Amateur Photography.