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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread
« on: September 15, 2012, 01:10:01 AM »Is that the Snake River??????Yeah I worked off of Ansel Adam's picture of the place.
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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread
« on: September 14, 2012, 08:23:31 PM »
Something I'm working on.
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Creativity / Re: ░▒▓█ Photography Megathread V3 █▓▒░
« on: September 13, 2012, 07:04:03 PM »I think you might have been able to make tree trunks stand out a little bit more and get a lot more contrast with a green or red filter. But I'm guessing it might be a Holga or similar camera, and I don't think those have filter ringsThe camera I'm using is an Argoflex E which was made in the 1940's. If they made filters for it, I doubt you could find them anymore.
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Creativity / Re: ░▒▓█ Photography Megathread V3 █▓▒░
« on: September 13, 2012, 06:38:52 AM »It was film? I was assuming you were using a shoebox camera to shoot directly to paper. (probably a stupid assumption because that would produce a negative image)
Was it a pinhole camera/toy camera? Because it looks like nothing is in focus :/
Ugh, I really need to crop that picture violently, because it is in focus, the focus is just nowhere near where I want it to be. The focus falls behind the fallen tree, on the two trees behind it that stand out against the dark forest. The camera that I was using was a medium format camera which has strong DoF and nothing to confirm whether or not something is in focus. So I like the look of everything above and behind the fallen tree, but the fallen trees and everything below it looks like trash.
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Creativity / Re: ░▒▓█ Photography Megathread V3 █▓▒░
« on: September 12, 2012, 08:23:25 PM »
T-Max for the film, Dektol for the paper.
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Creativity / Re: Photography Megathread [3.0]
« on: September 02, 2012, 11:10:33 PM »I hate these "photography rules" that are embedded into pictures. Everything and anything should be art, and just because of some made up rules some guy who was going willy nilly made official. If I take a picture of the Niagra Falls but I show too much of the sky, does that mean the picture is ugly, and that Niagra Falls is too? I really hate it man. Number two or one thing I hate about art and its conisseurs.
I know this message was posted a long ass time ago but I just need to point out how ridiculous this post is.
The "everything and anything should be art" approach to art is bullstuff. I guess, of course, anything can be art but that sure as stuff doesn't mean it's going to be good. Rule of thirds and compositional rules aren't some arbitrary rules that snooty people set because it gets their rocks off, they are factors that legitimately lead to a good looking photograph.
To use your Niagara falls example...
That photo is boring. It's not boring because I said it's boring or because it's breaking some arbitrary rule you set, it's boring because it's boring. It may portray the Niagara Falls which you may think is beautiful, but it's not good photography in and of itself because it's a closely cropped shot in midday and does not capture a particularly striking view of the falls.
This image of the falls is striking, because it A) captures a unique view of the falls and B) follows several rules of photography and art in general, the biggest thing going for it is warm color/cool color contrast between the golden mist and the blue/white of the falls.
Furthermore there is a difference between an ugly photo and a boring/bad photo. Digital cameras have gotten to a point where any photo will be technically good looking, and the only thing you can really do to make a shot ugly is either pick an ugly subject or filter-rape it. The problem ends up being if a photo is boring or poorly composed, or what have you.
Let's look at it in another art form. If I bang on a piano or just kind of make random intervals and weird chords without any real thought or work and say that it's music, does that mean it's good music? Of course not. The rules of music are such that we've discovered what makes a song sound good, and when people write music they adhere to those rules. The same goes for photography, and to suggest that you somehow have a higher understanding of what art is really about than people who have spent their lives learning about art and what makes it good or bad is pretentious and more than a bit wrong.
Of course you're entitled to your own opinion, but to suggest that the rules of what make a photo good are arbitrary/useless is, again, false.
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Creativity / Re: ░▒▓█ Photography Megathread V3 █▓▒░
« on: September 01, 2012, 10:08:11 PM »
They are kind of boring :\
When I look at those pictures, I don't think "wow look at this good photography", I think "wow look at this cool trip this guy took."
Same goes for Tammy's pictures, too, but they're a bit closer to what I'd say is good photography. A lot of them are close but not quite there (as in, there's a small thing you could've done to make it a more striking shot.)
When I look at those pictures, I don't think "wow look at this good photography", I think "wow look at this cool trip this guy took."
Same goes for Tammy's pictures, too, but they're a bit closer to what I'd say is good photography. A lot of them are close but not quite there (as in, there's a small thing you could've done to make it a more striking shot.)
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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread
« on: August 27, 2012, 05:26:44 PM »
We're sort of doing figures in my drawing class, we were told to do a contour drawing of a model who happened to be a friend. I've never practiced drawing faces so I decided to throw this on for fun, added a jew nose that turned out really well.
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Off Topic / Re: GuyCo. Catalog Thread - Imaginary Products for a better Future
« on: August 25, 2012, 10:08:27 PM »
what the actual forget
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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread
« on: August 25, 2012, 10:01:17 PM »
I may ink this later, I haven't really decided yet.
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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread
« on: August 24, 2012, 07:19:10 PM »That's pretty damn nice for a first!Thank you! Here's a detail of the tree which I think is far better than the background (which was supposed to be rain :\ )
I do like the tree, though it's hard to get the look of leaves down.