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01/24/2006 06:23:34 PM · #1 |
So...in the last 4 months or so since joining this site my knowledge of photography has increased a million times over. I just realized how much this site is truly helping me...
I took that picture around the time I joined the site, maybe a little after. That was how I edited it at the time...I probably spent over a half an hour on it.
That is the same photo. I spent aproximately 5 minutes on the editing. After looking at the two photo's...I realized how much I really have improved since joining this site.
I think this is first hand evidence of why this site freaking rocks.
How can you tell DPC is helping you?
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01/24/2006 06:29:27 PM · #2 |
without posting examples ;)
it really having to pay attention to the details
& going back to reshoot if i don't have a good feeling about it ..
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01/24/2006 06:32:37 PM · #3 |
Yeah...lately I've actually been paying attention to the small details through the viewfinder. And When I look at things...I am in photography "mode", lol.
It's like I always have my photo eyes on...even if I don't have my camera with me.
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01/24/2006 06:33:03 PM · #4 |
I can't tell ya how much it has helped me!
Before DPC I looked like this.
After 4 1/2 months I look like this now.
No, really I have learned so much, it is the best! |
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01/24/2006 06:33:36 PM · #5 |
Caleb, I'm with you on this, have been away from dpc for a while but the site is (almost) full of helpful, knowledgable members. Version2 is a marked improvement btw :)
*edited for speiling*
Message edited by author 2006-01-24 18:34:41.
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01/24/2006 07:08:06 PM · #6 |
I know exactly what you mean about editing. When I look at my top scoring photo now, I wonder how it did so well. The editing on it is just awful compared to the print version, which was done much later.
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01/24/2006 07:31:46 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by stare_at_the_sun:
It's like I always have my photo eyes on...even if I don't have my camera with me. |
Im with ya there...everything is a photgraph now. I carry my cam 99% of the time.
ANd as far as editing!There are some many people here that have taught me stuff, my editing has improved 100 x over.
I just look at my early entries to compare! |
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01/24/2006 07:35:52 PM · #8 |
yeah, I remember the revelation that was USM... I was like, "Wow, this is the coolest thing ever!"
And then I discovered Neat Image - "no, THIS is the coolest thing ever!"
-- and those are just two obvious examples of now-crucial tools/methods I learned about only through DPC.
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01/24/2006 07:55:16 PM · #9 |
when i started learning painting, some years ago (i was in school then), i realised that i can not afford to buy colors brushes etc. My pocket money was not enough to bear this expensive hobby. Then what i did was, whenever i would look at any photo in magazie etc. i would imagine that i am painting it. It went to the point that even when i am walking i would be thinking 'how to make this color, or tone'. As if everything is painting around. Then i had worse, i started studying human anotomy. And started to put all the female around me in those parameters. Worst is if i have urge to tell that she (someone) has great figure i just do it. Sometimes girls do not take it nicely, believe me.
I haven't reached similar stages with photography though, may be i am not so into it.
Originally posted by Rae-Ann:
Originally posted by stare_at_the_sun:
It's like I always have my photo eyes on...even if I don't have my camera with me. |
Im with ya there...everything is a photgraph now. I carry my cam 99% of the time.
ANd as far as editing!There are some many people here that have taught me stuff, my editing has improved 100 x over.
I just look at my early entries to compare! |
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01/24/2006 08:20:28 PM · #10 |
same here for me, and I'm grateful.
Used to be in the 4's and now at the 5's. Truly happy.
Great site, this place.
Wish I could break into the 6's someday and stay there.
Thanks all! |
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01/24/2006 08:54:36 PM · #11 |
Just got my first Photo Friday noteworthy and it was a shot that absolutely would not have happened without the attention to detail regarding lighting DOF and composition that I learned here through challenges. While I still haven't broke 6 I've come to accept a 5.5 from you guys as "pretty darn good" and keep raising my personal bar. Thanks.
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01/24/2006 10:38:25 PM · #12 |
Caleb, could you give a brief overview on the difference in the processing of the original two shots?
I can see the second has been sharpened and obviously the blur has been added, guassian blur, I assume? I suspect there's been some tweaking with curves etc. I agree, the second is so far above the first. That's what I want to learn.
âIf you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?â
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01/24/2006 10:55:47 PM · #13 |
All i can say is with my first entry, I didn't know what noise or DOF was, and I couldn't do anything in photoshop except crop and auto levels.
Thank you DPC!!!!
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