So Bar - Launch

[dastrix]

Hi Guys

My take here:

http://photos.allkris.com/

Or on my flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/dastrix

All resized for web, 500x333. No noise reduction, still need to work out a way to automate noise ninja for 200+ photos in batch style with lightroom/ps cs2, any ideas?

Hope you like! Learnt alot, great fun, great venue and a cool crowd! Seany B did wonders too

Enjoy.

K

[dastrix]

no interest :(

[durham]

had a brief look the other day but can't actually remember anything besides clicking the link. i'll have another look later when hopefully my net connection isn't playing silly buggers.

great setup though :drools: you have everything i want hah....damn low income uni student status.

[sway]

my thoughts: good for your first outing, but if you are aiming to take professional looking photos, try and work on your composition for portraiture. your framing is a bit lacklustre. for example, this pic:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/433351856_0e3afac7a5.jpg

would work so much better without all the dead space above their heads. you could crop all the pics, obviously (see attachment) - but it is a lot easier to take well-composed photos to start with. i would say 80% of the sobar pics on flickr aren't framed 'properly'.

take time to think about what you're looking at through the viewfinder and whether it'll work as a finished product. try not to cut people off mid-calf (if you're going to take a full body shot, then do it) - and there are a couple of shots with half a head? again, commit to the shot and make sure you get the whole head, or person in. don't be afraid to get close, and try to avoid the cheesy poses - natural, happy shots work best.

hope that doesn't sound to bitchy. :)

[esseeayen]

still need to work out a way to automate noise ninja for 200+ photos in batch style with lightroom/ps cs2, any ideas?


is it a photoshop plug in/filter cuz if it is then u can record a macro to automate the process for all photos in a directory

p.s. the thumbnails, love how it always centres on the boobies :lol:

[phunkdust]

dastrix the noise profile on the 5D is so good I wouldn't bother hitting up noise ninja.

Just make use of the chroma noise smoothing in camera raw in photoshop/lightroom - helps turn noise into a more natural film-like grain without sacrificing sharpness and detail like noiseninja/neatimage does.

[Royal]

Sway has some good points. It also helps to take photos somewhere where the music is decent and the crowd don't look like they've all walked out of Industrie.


Enough said - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dastrix/433349221/

[nettsu]

Sway has some good points. It also helps to take photos somewhere where the music is decent and the crowd don't look like they've all walked out of Industrie.


Enough said - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dastrix/433349221/

that's a really unflattering photo :lol:

oh my...

I have to agree dastrix
for a first effort its not bad
there's really nothing that stood out for me

I also have to agree with sway some of your compositions are a bit interesting - don't be afraid to crop after the fact either. Every bad photo may have a nugget of a good photo hidden in it.

Also don't be afraid of being different with your composition. Most of the stuff in your galleries is very safe and very posed. There's nothing really different or unusual. Try tilting your camera. Take diagonal shots, play with long exposures, get more candid crowd shots. The cheesy posed shots aren't bad - but... well... yes :|

Find a photographer in the ITM galleries you admire and hit them up for hints & tips :thumb:

[phunkdust]

also, use bounce flash some.