Link plz!

right on brotha
Well I don't really think getting criticism from strangers online is a good way to learn about photography. I believe having real life friends who are also into photography would be a much better way or if you don't have any just read some tutorials or even better, take a photography course I think some people who post their work online are not really looking for genuine criticism but just want to show off and receive positive comments... there is a difference between seeking encouragement and looking for criticism

I have been browsing the Photography forum on a regular basis for what, 6-8 months maybe?

I was a total noob when it came to digital phtography and editing and composition and all.
I still consider myself as a noob, I have so much to learn!!!

BUT!!
Yes, but, even with my little point and shoot camera, I have managed to make some serious improvement in my results.
How?
Because I have looked at good photographers post their pictures in here.
Those pictures have inspired me and how to look around me to look for the right way to take better pictures.

Your pictures, omg I love all of them.
You have inspired me sooo much and I have to thank you for it.
I will even admit that you are in my top 3 in this forum who have helped and inspired me.

You were always helpful, always encouraging, positive, and generous of your time.

Now....
Now I have no idea what happened to you.
Since you came back from that trip I forgot where and you met this girl who was obviously only interested in gettng more attention and nothing serious (sorry that's all I remember), you have changed soooo much.

Where is the Spencer who was polite, respectful, helpful, generous and positive?
What the hell hapned in your life that you became self-centered and so negative about everything..

Did I say self-centered?
Yes sad it and will leave that word there.
You refer to people being self-centered.
Please accept that not everyone here is as good as you, and we cannot critque your work in a professional manner.
Me for instance...
All I can say is ooooh!! and ahhhh!!!! cause I like the pictures.
Of course you will not improve yourself by readng my comment.

The only crtique I have made about one of your picture that was not me drooling at it, was about the waterfall and too many branches for my taste.
You jumped off the wall saying you couldn't cut them off.

You know, I just bought a red car.
You can tell me you prefer the blue version of it.
Find.
Am I going to get angry and tell you, well I can't change the color of my car, t was the only one left and blah blah blah.

Photograph is an art, and art is a question of taste.
Some people like my flower and bug pictures, some get really bored looking at them.
But the most important is, I love taking them and I feel good about what I do.

You have been very negative lately and responded badly to critque and been bashing mod work on this forum.
Now, to be honnest, I don't know what I would write in a topic of yours that I'll be sure you won't get mad at me or anyone else.

This forum is not about yourself only.
It's about everyone.
We are a communty.
And in a community, you have people helping, and people learning.
I had always considered you as part of the teaching and leadership.
Now, what happened to you???

You need to look at yourself, what you are becoming.

Yes, your work will be missed if you leave.
But if you stay with a negative attitude, you will make other people leave.

1st of all, don't start up with that, I've posted whole threats without getting ANY comments, also not from you.. though, I'm not leaving. and about the "angle"-example. this is just an opinion. one of my best friends just told me that he doesn't like my picture, and when I asked him why, he told me that they were weird. well, you just gotta accept the fact that some people just can't even explain, why they don't like something about your picture, it's more like a feeling..

However, I look this forum up everytime I can, I post whenever there is something to say. Ofc, I don't post an answer in every thread, sometimes I just don't have anything to say, and this is also what I accept here when it comes to me. Take what you can get, best I can say is that I was always looking forward to hearing from you, because you're one of the few people here, who do really know their stuff, and we need those people!!

I'm not a pro, I'm not even a beginner, so which constructive comments do you expect from me?

I just can say "wow nice "

If I think one of your pics is overexposed I wouldn't even be brave enough to tell you, just for the fear of being wrong.

If you need constructive comments, look for a constructive photo site and leave this one.

If you're happy with naive comments, stay and post your pictures without too much expectation.

If you wanna help the other just stay here and do it. You can simply do that by inspiring them.

1.
Horizon isnt straight, you shouldnt striaghten the horizon by background if it isnt straight. Wrong focal lenght, you need much wider for shots like this to get cool looking perspective. If you didnt have wider lens with you you should have taken horizontal frame instead of vertical. This makes pic look boring.

2.
Again too long focal lenght ruins the perspective on this. Too much sharpening(maybe some clarity too) looks bad too. Composition looks technically good, but you just cant get a good pic with that focal lenght from this subject. I bet you just couldnt get closer, but thats no excuse imo since there isnt enything special in the pic to be honest.

3.
Colors, dof, dogs eyes looking at the corner and composition of background looks good, but dog is missplaced on the frame and it ruins the pic quite much in my eyes. You should have placed the head closer to right corner and showing more of its body by moving yourself bit to the left while still keeping the same distance to head.

4.
That place looks cool, but again wrong focal lenght makes the pic look boring, wider angle would have atleast given better perspective to the pic, naturally you should have gotten closer and that might not have been possible. But again thats no excuse since nothing that special in pic.

5.
Nice composition, wrong perspective, looks bit boring in my eyes, but not bad.

6.
=2

7.
Too much clarity or crappy bokeh on lens, you could have blurred some of the leaves that arent so important, because some of them look bit too distracting atm. But desent shot.

8.
Front petals should be in focused area, shots like this need the main object(focused flower on this) isolated from the background and since background is white on this as the petals, those petals further away get too lost in the background and it makes the pic look boring. You should have looked for angle that get that cool background, but the focused flower pop out of the background better.

9.
This composition makes eyes wander around on dull background too much. Too much clarity on this too.

10.
This shot is incredible, only thing that i can find wrong in it is too much clarity, but is looks good on left side, but really bad on edges of that that leaf in the front and leafs in the right background, you could fix this clarity problem by blurring ugly spots on photoshop.


I hope this is the kind of constructive critism you needed. Im not trying to be rude with this or enything, so dont get mad. Most of these pics are one of your crappiest shots imo. And looking at your pics overally, i see quite meny really good ones, but meny of them are still missing something to make the even worth looking longer than two seconds. Sadly this too much clarity and/or sharpening seems to be problem for you and you have ruined some good shots with it. What comes to you personally, i think you are a good guy, but you act like spoiled 16-year old brat at times, like now. Not everyone who visits this section is here to post comments for you or enyone else, most of the views comes from random people visiting this forums who has no idea about photography. Most people who post on this section doesent have enough idea about photography to post eny consctructive critism to your pics because i think meny of us think they look good, personally im just too lazy to comment much, especially since meny of your pics are good and doesent need much critism or then they are boring and i dont want to bring you down. Even tho someone should bring you down to earth since the only good photographer on these forums is astragony, and i get the feeling that you think that your better than you actually are(but your very very good for your age). In my opinion if you take good pics at times, it doesent make you a good photographer, because you dont have enough insight to concentrate on only taking good shots. You still got alot to learn(and im not saying i dont) and i hope you know it, because at times you seem to get offended if someone critisized something you think is good and the critism isnt maybe as constructive that you wanted, you wont learn enything being stubborn. Honestly i think nice comments on your good pics on other forums has gotten to your head bit too much. Again im not telling this to make you mad, you seem like a good guy, but you need to take your head from the clouds, it weakens your vision of reality and thats a really bad thing if you want to learn something.

I hope you wouldnt leave, get back to the real world and share your knownledge with newbies! I promise to give more honest constructive critism to you if you stay.

Thanks, see that's what everybody wants, yet nobody gives.
You did smash them all though, but I don't really care anymore, I was looking for help, people don't understand.

I don't think I can be called spoiled either, I've had a part time job now for 3 years, and have worked harder than most kids my life.
I've worked very hard for all I have.

Are you referring to my critism with "smashing"? If so, im just telling you what i see wrong in the pic and how to do it differently, its not smashing, its constructive critism, and as i allready told:



I told you act like spoiled at times, not that you are purely one. Being spoiled(or acting like one) doesent only mean that you dont work work for your stuff, its an attitude including so much more. Can you say that you payed 100%(+ payed everything else that keeps you alive while saving for them) of all your belongings? If not you didnt work as hard for all you have as you might think.

I used to think that people just dont understand me when i was younger, then i realized that there are different viewpoints for all people and that sometimes it was me that didnt understand the other peoples point.

You should study MBTI

Again nothing personal, and nn to get offended if you hear other peoples version of the "truth".

I think the most valid point is missing here.





A couple well made points in this thread that need to be looked upon. Don't expect too much out of us Spencer, these two people made good valid points of why you should not expect too much here.

Warning! the following post may contain certain amount of sarcasm.

wow! I must have pissed off someone really bad judging by his response. You know you really should take it as a compliment because if you look around you will find that douche bags and assholes are the popular ones and lots of chicks dig them even though they are mostly a bunch of mind-changing narrow minded self-righteous sluts but at least you will have lots of fun with them and get lots of experience. As for the accusation of me being a child molester... first of all you don't know me, period. You are talking about a guy who lost his virginity to a woman more than ten years older than him and second just ask that person you mentioned in your post if I ever had sexual intercourse with her. I guess a douche like you don't know about the difference between love and friendship and meaningless sex. Anyway I know I probably have told you too much but then again falsely accusing someone for being a child molester is a very serious crime just so you know.

Oh and my apology to mr Bountiehunter for have posted something irrelevant in his thread.

This post was edited by Futurama on Sep 17 2009 11:29pm