Please tell me I'm a crap photographer!

[Agetan]

aiyo.. just post more..

the more feedback (specialy those constructive one) the more you learn... don't be afraid to show your photos... we all are still learning..

Can only learn from feedback... hence never afraid to try..

Hart

 

[Cap_Dingo]

I do value most of the comments posted here... sincerely, thank you.

These were just snapshots that were taken just to test out the camera and were by no means composed or set up with lights or anything else you pros do. Why I chose these photos? Coz the food had a range of colours, and coz the trees showed how blur the photo was (BTW, I WAS using a tripod but the result was still like that).

Yeah, I reckon I'm a crap photographer... comments from EVERYONE were really helpful. JSBN - mate, lighten up... if you had a look at my initial comments carefully I was not asking about composition etc... but more on clarify, contrast. Again, yes I know these are crap composition shots... and do appreciate your effort and concern to answer. It just would have been nice to have smiled while I was reading your post instead.

I'll take a serious photo one of these days and post it here for C&C. Hopefully I'd have improved by then. FYI - I'll be keeping the A1...

 

[Agetan]

remember to turn AS off when you are using tripod, else image will be blur.

Hart

I do value most of the comments posted here... sincerely, thank you.

These were just snapshots that were taken just to test out the camera and were by no means composed or set up with lights or anything else you pros do. Why I chose these photos? Coz the food had a range of colours, and coz the trees showed how blur the photo was (BTW, I WAS using a tripod but the result was still like that).

Yeah, I reckon I'm a crap photographer... comments from EVERYONE were really helpful. JSBN - mate, lighten up... if you had a look at my initial comments carefully I was not asking about composition etc... but more on clarify, contrast. Again, yes I know these are crap composition shots... and do appreciate your effort and concern to answer. It just would have been nice to have smiled while I was reading your post instead.

I'll take a serious photo one of these days and post it here for C&C. Hopefully I'd have improved by then. FYI - I'll be keeping the A1...

 

[+evenstar]

nah ... find a piece of cooked vegetable that look that colour of green .... heck .... it is already quite difficult to find fresh vege that looks that colour. The colour of other food, likewise. (I adjusted the pictures to that colour so that it looks like fresh uncooked food .... the original ones look like cooked food, the photo I adjusted makes it looks like it wasn't cooked. Great for product shot, but lousy for event shot .... just to bring a point across there is nothing wrong with the camera )

the veg i eat is this green lei...?

 

[Cap_Dingo]

ermmm yeah - our veggies really are that green!

 

[eesteck]

i still own the A1. it is true that canon and nikon have more vibrant colours, however, in real life, when you see the object you are taking, it isn't supposed to be THAT vibrant. Minolta cameras are famous for their "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" colours. A1, A2, 5D and 7D are all like that. so basically, canon just brings some processing steps into their camera. but sometimes(when you slowly become a pro), there are some photos that you dun want to be that over-saturated.

so if you find the photos taken by your A1 abit dull, there are two ways. photoshop or turn the "COL" knob(left of the camera) into +3. depends on your liking, i use +3 most of the time.

bro I agree with u. I was using Nikon before minolta 7D. I was surprised by the diff in output. For nikon, the cam seems to automatically increase the saturation. The color is always heavier. I used Nikon D70 & KM 7D side by side for a period of time for testing and confirmed that minolta really produce natural colour.

I used dimage A1 for quite a while before DSLR, trust me it works better than any other prosumer.

 

[jsbn]

I do value most of the comments posted here... sincerely, thank you.

These were just snapshots that were taken just to test out the camera and were by no means composed or set up with lights or anything else you pros do. Why I chose these photos? Coz the food had a range of colours, and coz the trees showed how blur the photo was (BTW, I WAS using a tripod but the result was still like that).

Yeah, I reckon I'm a crap photographer... comments from EVERYONE were really helpful. JSBN - mate, lighten up... if you had a look at my initial comments carefully I was not asking about composition etc... but more on clarify, contrast. Again, yes I know these are crap composition shots... and do appreciate your effort and concern to answer. It just would have been nice to have smiled while I was reading your post instead.

I'll take a serious photo one of these days and post it here for C&C. Hopefully I'd have improved by then. FYI - I'll be keeping the A1...

Damn, do I really sound so serious and nasty? Ok, here's a smile

Most of the time I noticed when people get their first camera (especially more so if its a Prosumer or a SLR system since these are 1 step up from regular Point-and-Shoots), they get so excited about it, fail to note that basics still matter alot and expect to whip up instant magic, beautiful razor sharp, contrasty pictures and expecting not to post process them cos, "Its not pro, its cheating." (of cos, when I discovered post-processing, I went overkill on it until I gained enlightenment on the relationship between shooting and post-processing).

Yes, those are my first experiences when I jumped to an SLR system from a PnS. I was pretty snooty about it back then. Makes me laugh whenever I look back. :bsmilie: So I understand more or less where most newbies are coming from.

As for the 'seriousness' of a photo, I guess it depends on how 'serious' u are thinking when taking a shot. Some photographers opt for a 'lighten up and smile' style, some don't even smile at all and take each shot seriously to the point that they capture their subjects not smiling.

Enjoy ur baby, fool around with it, master ur basics and in ur pursuit of photography, think about life in detail and how u would wanna show it thru ur eye, ur camera and ur finger. Ur photos reflect u as u reflect urself in the photo.

Cheers mate.

 

[drake336]

bro I agree with u. I was using Nikon before minolta 7D. I was surprised by the diff in output. For nikon, the cam seems to automatically increase the saturation. The color is always heavier. I used Nikon D70 & KM 7D side by side for a period of time for testing and confirmed that minolta really produce natural colour.

I used dimage A1 for quite a while before DSLR, trust me it works better than any other prosumer.

Bro, you actually came from the Dark Side? :bsmilie:

 

[emerson_chew]

just keep trying dun give up....if the photo so easy to take is not call a good photo...good photo sometime 300 shot it might not even have one...photo everybody also can taken. but one good photo is very hard to get..so dun give up try harder..you will improve by trying...rmb photography need time n patience,, good luck

night shot try to use tripod ISO 100 no flash f16 shutter need to try it out on the field

 

[Cap_Dingo]

Thanks for additional comments JSBN.... initially a bit nasty, but know that the comments were given out of concern. Thanks again. :thumbsup:

 

[jsbn]

Got any recommendations for laxatives since I sound so nasty? :bsmilie:

 

[Cikgu101]

I started photography just last year...for ther 1st two months, I practically shot anything I get my eyes on. As for being a crappy photographer, I thinks that a little absurb brand someone like that. Self branding is even worse. :thumbsd:

So my advice is SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT and don't worry about the photos crappy or not. Practice makes perfect. Get a Good Book on Photography like those from Michael Freeman. An added bonus is to hook up with a photography club as well as photo-buddies who would love to constructively criticise you for the betterment of your photography skills. Most importantly...BE OPEN and DON'T BE AFRAID to take pictures. You won't lose anything in Digital anyway, just SNAP Away!!!! :thumbsup:

 

[jhansolo]

branding someone as crap is perosnal ... telling someone's photograph is crap is being honest, saying oneself is crap is being humble.

 

[Cikgu101]

Well we cannot stay crapped forever ... should grown in photography knowledge and wisdom to surely convert crap to works of art .... and this is a lifetime undertaking.

 

[singlish]

And you are plain rude and arrogant michhy.

you are a crap photographer (you asked for it in your thread title...)

 

[jeremyftk]

And you are plain rude and arrogant michhy.

And you have nothing better to do than to resurrect old threads... :bsmilie: