karbineftw said:

I nw it!!!!!! her bf is reuzothg she said in her 3rd post or summin. i love that guyyyy

anyone els noticed that guys with girlfriends on here, they always have fiats oto? it's like it's a lwa or summin x

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Judging by the spelling, you're going to be feeling that tomorrow
And my girl friend doesn't have a Fiat, but she would like one though they just aren't common here.

RE: the photos:

Gotta say, I've done a fair amount of analyse this and analyse that, but I really don't understand them. I get that they're what 'make up' the subjects but the first photo just looks totally random with no sense or order to it, no artistic arrangement at all. I realise you set the brief yourself so obviously you can do what ever you wanted but I sort of assumed you'd be trying to make a bigger artistic statement with the content and arrangement of the objects. As a whole it makes me think of someone taking a box full of things they like, shaking it and showing you the contents.

The second one I quite like the concept of, but the only reason it works well is because of the quality of the background picture of the car, if you took that great work the composition and lighting are gorgeous. The coffee cup also works well the way it pours into the little pond thingo but the rest of it just ends up like the first picture - there's no correlation and it's all quite rushed looking despite the time you obviously spent getting it all to work together.

The third picture I quite like, though it's friggen huge so I haven't been able to load the whole thing. But from the thumbnail I really like how it fits together, which is something the other don't do. The items work well together to make something of a story of the owner if you understand what I mean. If I were asked to write a story about the subject of one of the pictures I would pick the last one because then I'd have more to write than "cakes, chocolates and jewelery".

popsprocket said:

Judging by the spelling, you're going to be feeling that tomorrow
And my girl friend doesn't have a Fiat, but she would like one though they just aren't common here.

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:Offtopic: but - get her to get a Niki 650 Nathan126 knows what I mean :slayer:

Im not an expert on artistic things but there is a good doll doctor up this part of the country that finger looks nasty.

Carly91 said:

thanks for the comments all though am sure non of you are professional photographers lol

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Maybe not, but some of us are professional artists....

Carly91 said:

quite frankly iv had enough of the college project, am just loosing all interest, id much rather be at a wedding each day

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A lot of professional artistic work is boring and mundane....It's not all fun, fun, fun....And shooting Weddings is going to be lot of hard work and effort....Not to mention the pressure of failing to capture somebody's big day!

Carly91 said:

photoshopin which understandably i chose to do, but its just wore thin now, so its not had maximum effort.

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If you're serious about doing it as a job, you might need to rethink that approach....

Wooo I'm fine

ThisBitterPill said:

Maybe not, but some of us are professional artists....



A lot of professional artistic work is boring and mundane....It's not all fun, fun, fun....And shooting Weddings is going to be lot of hard work and effort....Not to mention the pressure of failing to capture somebody's big day!



If you're serious about doing it as a job, you might need to rethink that approach....

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i have a part time job with a wedding photographer, and i photograph weddings on my own, as a personal business, i have been doing them for about 2 years now very successfully i had to go to college to get the qualifications to prove i can take a photo that's all, but as you will no ur self probably, its not about the qualifications, its whats produced, and my mannerisms with people on the day

the bits am fed up of doing are these college projects although i set the proposal my self, its was quite heavily directed by the tutors :S

It would appear that the three photos contain images that only mean something to the people for who they were designed, obviously. With that in mind those people would find the photos appealing, which at the end of the day (I hate that phrase) is perhaps what your "kind" of photography is all about.

I would say get the qualifications and then specialise and take what you want from the course. A friend of mine took a graphic design course over 30 years ago and has never looked back. He doesn't even take the photos, someone else does that, but he provides the creative input and the photographers put into print what he envisages.

Perhaps what your lecturer is trying to do is bring out your artistic side which can be put to good use at weddings and especially commercial shoots for industry.

The few weddings I photographed years ago were for friends who were too tight to pay for the job to be done properly and were simply taken on Kodachrome on a Nikon FE film camera. There was no flash and the film was taken to a professional lab to be developed. I decided how I wanted them cropped and their technician processed and printed simply using his nouse and his experience. There wasn't really that much difference between that and simply taking the films to Boots.

I'm not sure how much photoshop is needed at a wedding. If I was able to turn out reasonable results with just a camera, film and a technician, maybe there is a temptation to make the subject more complex that it deserves.

Just the thoughts of a technophobic old git.

The Beard said:

I'm not sure how much photoshop is needed at a wedding. If I was able to turn out reasonable results with just a camera, film and a technician, maybe there is a temptation to make the subject more complex that it deserves.

Just the thoughts of a technophobic old git.

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Well apart from the obvious things like colour correcting and resizing, you never know when you're going to have to erase an ugly relative out of an otherwise beautiful picture!

Yes removing people has been done before lol
also photoshopping open eyes onto a bride or groom to create a fantastic image lol its such a pain, when you think it looks beautiful, then you realise he has, like one eye closed :S

thanks for all the comments given, one last massif push for comments pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
i need more feed back the people on the photography forum's are useless no ones commented

thanks

Carly91 said:

thanks for the comments all though am sure non of you are professional photographers lol

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I havnt done any courses or anything but i am a professional product photographer.
This is all i can find in my gallery. This was a multi focus shot using just a Cannon Eos Mk11


But this is how i composed a lot of elements together in a similar manner to yourself.
http://www.hornby.com/sets-and-train-packs-88/r1147/product.html

Unfortunately i dont have anything high res to show you the detail level and cutouts.

Also i would avoid the Burn and dodge tools as they are permanent.

volxstu said:

I havnt done any courses or anything but i am a professional product photographer.
This is all i can find in my gallery. This was a multi focus shot using just a Cannon Eos Mk11

But this is how i composed a lot of elements together in a similar manner to yourself.
http://www.hornby.com/sets-and-train-packs-88/r1147/product.html

Unfortunately i dont have anything high res to show you the detail level and cutouts.

Also i would avoid the Burn and dodge tools as they are permanent.

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Love that picture man, the seriousness of the low-angle versus them just being toys. Good product photography on the packaging can definitely make a product worth buying.

Thats the effect that we aim for. .
And if anybody is interested a lot of the changes in the re-brand were my idea from this.
http://www.hornby.com/sets-and-train-packs-88/r1122/product.html
To the style shown in my last post.

My plan is to integrate all of Hornby's brands to look very similar. So people instantaneously know that they are all part of the same group, but each will have its own distinguishable style.
For example we started with the new Airfix branding.
http://www.airfix.com/airfix-produc...d-a50046/?searchguid=&resultspage=&sortorder=
NB i was only involved in the packaging. The site :yuck: Has nothing to do with us, nor does the 3d box image on that page. We did the real one but whoever did the mock up on there clearly has no grasp of perspective.

My project it totally complete and handed in now, iv put my exhibition up on the walls, just got to wait for Tuesday for the unavailing of all our work. 80% of the tutors love my work, i tweaked the images slightly before i printed them, so they blend slightly better as an over all image. thanks for all taking the time to comment, i shall let you no how it all goes

THANKS

Carly91 said:

thanks for the comments all though am sure non of you are professional photographers lol

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Meh. No one needs to be a professional musician to dislike some music and no one needs to be a professional painter to dislike certain paintings.

To me though, I would mark the pictures low. I'm sure you put a lot of time and effort in but at the end of the day sometimes you have to step back and think "Yep, that looks like a load of random shots someone's stitched together. Better start again."

As "professional" photographer (ish) surely you understand that concept, whether with stitched together pics or those wedding pictures that aren't worth pp'ing because something is fundamentally wrong technically.