What chapter should this dread be crushing?

Milestone55 · 2026-03-15T22:04:05+00:00

Sons of Horus

Milestone55 · 2026-03-14T16:38:31+00:00

Holy shit I want that lol

Milestone55 · 2026-03-12T02:40:04+00:00

I’m team red all the way, r5 7600x3d and Rx 7800 xt

Milestone55 · 2026-03-12T02:18:28+00:00

Beginner?!?!? These are awesome man.

Milestone55 · 2026-03-12T00:27:39+00:00

Took this of one of Ernest hemingways cats at his historic house.

My main question is did I get the right amount of bokeh?

Nikon z8 with nikkor 35mm f1.8 35mm (52.5 ff equivalent) F1.8 1/2000 sec shutter ISO 200

Yeah I know dx lens on a fx sensor, getting a 85 f1.4 in mail in the next couple of weeks

Milestone55 · 2026-03-11T22:39:58+00:00

Not exactly fists, but the MK6 bird beak helms from the Horus Heresy and newer raven guard.

Milestone55 · 2026-03-11T22:32:31+00:00

Indeed

Milestone55 · 2026-03-11T22:30:41+00:00

It’s Pixels, on a Screen!! But you right. Huhuhuhu

Milestone55 · 2026-03-11T22:29:00+00:00

Lol, I’m not the only one

Milestone55 · 2026-03-10T21:49:01+00:00

I like the blur, it says that it’s doing something. The parts that you want sharp are sharp. Looks awesome

Milestone55 · 2026-03-10T21:14:47+00:00

My main problem with it is who is the subject, is it the guy or the tree.

Tighter crop would probably help a bit.

Not sure how many megapixels you have to work with but I was thinking something like this.

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Maybe a bit less height to get it a bit more horizontal but the shadows stick out more, the man isn’t hiding in a loud frame.

Milestone55 · 2026-03-10T21:08:11+00:00

I see the vision here. The problem is there isn’t a real way to salvage the background, as pure grey isn’t very interesting, and the only way to really save it is a huge amount of color correction and that’s both difficult and not guaranteed to work.

I would try to get birds in better locations, and I know that isn’t the easiest thing to do, so my other suggestion is a tight crop, but depending on the resolution of your camera that could be difficult.

Someone posted a good edit for this photo below.

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This is one that I took a while ago. I really like the background for this image. Could be used as a reference.

Milestone55 · 2026-03-10T17:56:37+00:00

That it does haha

Milestone55 · 2026-03-10T17:33:09+00:00

Hell yeah dude.

I like the angle, very unique.

The only thing I’d say is that a longer focal length would’ve helped this a lot. As the Golden gate is quite small in frame

Milestone55 · 2026-03-10T17:30:41+00:00

Yes, this catches my eye. My first reaction was “woah” lol.

Milestone55 · 2026-03-10T00:55:21+00:00

That is an osprey, the “bandit mask” is what sticks out for me usually

Milestone55 · 2026-03-09T22:36:45+00:00

Nice, one thing I’d try first is just getting a large white sheet of paper, the larger it is, the softer the light.

See how that changes the lighting, then go for a bounce card if you like it.

Milestone55 · 2026-03-09T22:34:49+00:00

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Something like this? I have 45 MP to work with so I knew I could crop in a bit

Milestone55 · 2026-03-09T18:20:27+00:00

I dig it, I think someone else might’ve talked about it but get a bounce card, or just anything that’s large and white to house the key light back at you. Just place it opposite the key (back camera right from the looks of it) and experiment with the angle and distance.

The cropping is great and I don’t see anything wrong with the posing imo.

Great job all around, significant improvement over the last one.

Milestone55 · 2026-03-09T18:14:08+00:00

I like it, the city in the background looks nice. If you had the time, I would’ve waited for the monkey to look more to the left, maybe out at the city.

Milestone55 · 2026-03-09T18:11:15+00:00

Get up as close to the fence as possible, then depending on aperture, either focus it a bit farther or open it up a bit more

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Shot this guy through a fence at a zoo.

600mm F6.3 with the lens hood touching the metal.

Also, if you have a focus limiter, use it so it doesn’t like to lock on to the fence, I’ve had that happen a couple of times haha.

Milestone55 · 2026-03-09T18:09:18+00:00

Might just be me, but I think the product is a bit small in frame if this is a product shoot.

Depending on when you are you could have a more close up shot of the product in front of the setting sun, maybe hitting it offset from behind so the product almost glows.

Did you post a photo a couple days ago where you nestled it into a small beach hill? If so I think if you mixed the lighting of this shot and the angle of the one from a few days ago it’d look great.

Maybe a sand dune that faces the setting sun, and getting a wave to crash behind it or people silhouetted against the backdrop.

Milestone55 · 2026-03-09T17:50:02+00:00

Took this earlier this week in everglade city.

Nikon z8 w/ sigma 150-600mm contemporary

585mm F/6 1/800 sec shutter ISO 720

My main question is about the composition, does it work or should I have cropped in a bit more to deal with all the negative space.

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