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angel-obsesser — Getting the best from a shoot
Published: 2005-06-30 08:54:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 22634; Favourites: 222; Downloads: 2765
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Actually the full title is "How to get the best out of a shoot". But it was too long to fit.So, what can I say about it. Actually these are the most simple principles I wrote down, from personal experience.
This might not really help you a lot, but it will explain the way I choose my photos after a shoot, if I happen to have many to choose from.
Really, look at this with the opinion, that these are the simplest points and don't wait for anything worldshattering.
Lesson 1: Picking out the best shot, concentrates on the aspects you should consider when choosing the shot you want to present.
Lesson 2: Presenting the picture, some tips on how to make the photo look even better. (although PS is mentioned, I still put it under photography, it fits there better.)
All the pictures I used for examples are mine and can be found at my gallery.
Constructive ideas/comments appreciated. Remember, I'm rather new to photography myself too!
Ignore any misspellings, I tried to fix them all but there might be some left.
EDIT: Thank you all for the lovely feedback this has gotten
I have given *PhotoLust permission to post this in their gallery.
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Comments: 139
Very good tutorial !
Now it's very easy to succeed the Shoot !
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This is such a lovely tutorial! It explains a lot of things for me. Fantastic job!
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Woow, this tutorial really helps...!!! I love it...!!! It is a FAV+ must...!!!
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this is really helpful!!!!
thx u for this!!
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I'm glad you liked it
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^_^ your more than Welcome to View my Gallery and tell Me What you Think of all my Photos
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although some people may not like the results you show here, you point at some aspects of photography that are really important in order to achieve excellent results. This alone makes this tutorial very useful. And i think your examples really got improved after the changes you put here.
very nice work.
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Thank you for a lovely comment.
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I'm sorry, but i think most examples here are rally bad. Sometimes even the 'after' picture looks worse then 'before'. Just my opinion though.
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This tutorial really helped me learn the basic concepts of taking photos. Thanks a lot.
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Just an awesome tutorial! Hope to see more like this! Thank you for sharing!
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Loved this. Too many tutorials focus on the technical aspects of photography. Form and content should also be stressed, as per your guide. Loved your photographs of the Estonia sky.
Head aega!
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1.2 I disagree with.
while a specific vanishing point can sometimes be useful, in your given shot, it was not.
The first shot I find much more dynamic, the colors of the houses are the only subjects, and the handrail leads right to the bright door.
In the second, the colors are muted and compressed, and a less interesting house are visible in the background. The stairs domminate the foreground, but lead nowhere as the door is cut off.
The perspective of the first shot is far better for this subject.
I believe that you should leave the instruction on perspective to "whatever works for the shot." There's no one rule that works. Taking into account leading lines and rule of thirds, etc. is often far more important.
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Indeed, I do see that the shot I have as an example isn't the best. In that case I do tend to lean towards the first shot too but it had strong lines that helped prove a point. Goes to show that rules aren't everything
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Absolutely awesome tutorial! Thanks so much for writing it!
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in 1.5 you say the "ugly telephone post" but to be honest the second picture is too bland, its not a great example..
i like what youve done here in general
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I think that's arguable. Usually people tend to prefer clean shots when it comes to nature
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Oh dear
I didn't notice that.
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Though the majority of this tutorial is dead on, I really have to take issue with point 1.2, regarding perspective. I think the elephant in the room is the railing, which in shot one takes you up the stars and along the houses. The first point of interest is the door, then the lower windows. You move up to the upper windows and off into the distance (with just a hint of another interesting door. In shot two, the focus is really the railing, blocking access to the picture, more or less. The perspective you speak of leads us right past the interesting architecture, which is barely there, to a rather plain tree and half of a building that is less eye-catching than the houses that are blurred into vague red and blue lines. The two pictures are not a contrast in perspective, but in subject. The first picture shows off the brickwork around the door and windows, and the vibrant colors of the roof and upper windows. The second picture is a rather plain shot of a railing and stairs.
You're really dealing with multiple lines of perspective, and in shot two the overwhelming line is the straight left right of the rail, which for any faults the first picture has, really makes picture two much weaker.
PK
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I actually agree on that. I had suspicions about that photo the moment I added it but I didn't have a better shot to demonstrate point of interest better. Though the first shot does indeed look better, in theory it's usable as an example to show how lines work in a shot. Thank you for the input
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A brilliant tutorial. I have featured in in my journal.
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I saw this on *Ex-po-zure
Very nicely presented. I like how you explained things in everyday language...not pro photographer speak.
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This is truly an extremely helpful tutorial! I'm no photographer, but I do enjoy taking my camera around with me and experimenting. This actually clarified a lot of questions I had. One thing though, there seems to be a lot of work to be done with PS...when do you feel a photo has crossed the line between a photo thats been touched up, to a photo thats been totally played around with and should be submitted in a photomanipulation category?
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Well, usually the line is with things that are achievable in a darkroom also. That means light modification and contrast, some colour editing too. But with the shot of the cat I stil think it's a photo, since the resul I got with the editing is something achievable in reality too, it would have just mean that I would have had to pick a different spot. So basically if the thing you're doing with PS is achievable through traditional ways too it isn't a photomanipulation.
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Wow I didn't know that!! Thanks for the clarification
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