chobit

At this point, I think that's no reason to debate about films vs digitals.  Enough had been said by many well known photographers out there.  Just when you think yor MF is what consider the best, someone else will tell you they shoot large format instead.

I think knowing what we want to do with our photos at the end can helps us make the right dicision.
1> Do we plan on printing it, or if is going to display froma monitor
2> If it is for printing, are we talking 4x6?  12x16? billboard?
3> What type of media?  Canvas?  Matt?  Other type of art media?
4> Rather you are dealing with films or digitals.  They both require many steps of pro-process before the final prints.  In other words, I think it's matter of the final applications.

As I mentioned before, most of the good stuff these days are still shot on film. Even when these p ...
快樂牛郎 發表於 2012-5-3 10:11

chobit

These kind of go together, so fig. I'll post them as well.

The next set of my photos are shot @ Yale Town.  Some of the shots are similar, but it was also purp ...
chobit 發表於 2012-5-2 23:58

快樂牛郎

This has nothing to do with the final print or the image quality. It's the process that makes the difference. It's the fact that you know every shot will cost you money and you know that you can't screw things up because you know you won't see the results 3 days from now that forces you to concentrate on perfecting your craft and going through the whole mental process before clicking the shutter.  If you are already trained to do that, then it won't matter whether you shoot film or digital anymore. But without ever shooting film you are not gonna get this training, coz humans are lazy by nature.

chobit

This 2 photos goes with the same ideas.

Often enough, people who start taking portrait photos are very photos on the models, but the full picture as a whole.

The idea behind this pictures are the diagonal lines.  Those lines exist in both the subject, and the background, which help enhance the visual quality.  They may not work for everyone, but then if that's not part of your consideration before you take the picture, then you are missing something.

PS: Some people may find the the 2nd photo is tilted too much.  This is actually where the 1st photo comes in to play.  One with a more common accepted angle, and 1 photo where you push it a little more.  That usually works well if the photos are used for photo album design, where the photos aren't always placed in parellel with the album.

快樂牛郎

At this point, I think that's no reason to debate about films vs digitals.  Enough had been said by  ...
chobit 發表於 2012/5/3 12:38

See this interesting article here

http://theonlinephotographer.typ ... 5/a-leica-year.html

Basically any restrictions you impose on yourself will make you a better photographer, provided that you actually think about the limits you have and try to produce equally stunning results within those limits.

Shooting is a lot easier nowadays. But shooting good stuff is as difficult (if not more difficult) than ever.

快樂牛郎

This 2 photos goes with the same ideas.

Often enough, people who start taking portrait photos are v ...
chobit 發表於 2012/5/3 13:05

I am actually not sure what I am looking at. Since we can't see her faces, I assume that this is a study about human body form/curvature rather than emotion. If this was the case, I don't find her body that interesting.

chobit

Interesting :o

I am actually not sure what I am looking at. Since we can't see her faces, I assume that this is a ...
快樂牛郎 發表於 2012-5-3 16:27

librazhy

this is a very nice picture

librazhy

which lighting technique was taken with this setup?

嘉嘉

i like the background too
except I don't like the facial expression of this model.....
kinda "over"......