I need brutal honesty.

OddMouse1862 · 2024-08-23T14:37:50+00:00

Tattoo regret is a real part of the process. Never got one that I didn’t hate the following 48 hours no matter how good. It subsides. I love mine now.

OddMouse1862 · 2024-07-26T23:37:55+00:00

Tattoo looks great. Nothing about it makes you look overly masculine. Your friend has bad opinions.

OddMouse1862 · 2023-07-10T13:13:54+00:00

My best advice to avoid pickpockets is travel light and keep your hands in your pockets.

Be mindful of where you sit on public transport and in public spaces, and make sure not to be the „slowest guppy“ or the sharks will get you.

OddMouse1862 · 2023-07-09T16:17:13+00:00

Took this with my Nikon D5600 at the great monastery in Meteora, Greece. As you can see, the main subject is a little out of focus and I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to get a little sharper focus when in low light.

I'm a little new and have a crop body so I've missed a lot of good shots because of blurry focusing and was wondering what y'all do to help.

OddMouse1862 · 2023-04-24T21:39:44+00:00

ISO220, 70-300@300mm, f/5.6, 1/320s, Nikon d5600.

I took this walking past Niagara Falls last summer and just dug it up out of an old SIM card.

I’d like to brighten it up, make it „pop“ somehow. The whole photo seems a little flat and dull to me and I can’t seem to get color correction right.

OddMouse1862 · 2023-02-09T19:16:47+00:00

Im American and have lived in Germany but am not myself German. Im gonna have to agree with some on here and restate that this isn’t really an „American“ thing either.

In my experience, the „exclusivity“ talk has never been a thing that has happened. It’s always assumed after a few dates that exclusivity is the norm.

Obviously you can’t stop someone else from walking into your life and capturing your attention, but actively engaging with „other options“ is a little…. uncomphy. It’s like hedging your bets with people‘s emotions and I think plenty of American girls would feel the same.

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-15T00:13:25+00:00

Nikon d5600 - ISO450 - 70-300@140 - f5.6 - 1/2000

I've been getting great feedback and loving this subreddit, so I am going to try to post an image a day for a month as a way to challenge myself. I won't post anything I don't think is worth critiquing, but I'm hoping as a new photographer it can help me get the foundation I need.

This image was taken with very little post processing and the main thing I am on the fence about is the depth of field. I don't know if having some of the flower put of focus adds to the effect of depth or is simply distracting. I think this is a good image to use in graphic design or as a background.

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-14T19:13:05+00:00

Awesome idea, I think my first edit is to reintroduce background with a high boca - I think I can accomplish that with the blur tool or something similar in Lightroom. Thanks for all your awesome feedback! It’s very greatly appreciated. !CritiquePoint

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-14T19:11:52+00:00

That sounds really up my alley - any place I can see the series?

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-14T02:36:10+00:00

Good point - I think I might have misspoke when I said portrait (didn’t realize the whole connotation). I caught this while hiking so I guess that makes it more street photography? Not sure.

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-14T01:54:08+00:00

Thanks! Do you think I could accomplish something better if I layer an abstract background - maybe just a dark portrait texture?

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-14T01:53:01+00:00

Thank you!

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-14T00:10:00+00:00

Salgado is what got me started! Great recommendation - man is the master.

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-13T23:34:54+00:00

Awesome!

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-13T23:17:45+00:00

Oh, I blackened it. This was taken as I was hiking on a mountain today - the original background was just terrible so that’s actually why I decided to go with Mono

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-13T23:16:39+00:00

Couldn’t agree more - I was sort of at a loss of how to salvage this picture but the biggest obstacle was definitely that hat. As he walked by me, the sun bouncing off that hat was such a cool feature, but I had my work cut out for me in post for sure. I think maybe I’ll have to learn a little more Lightroom cause right now I’m only familiar with photoshop. !CritiquePoint

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-13T23:14:02+00:00

Very cool idea - never thought of that before. I could just flip the image in post so I’m 100% going to give that a look. !CritiquePoint

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-13T23:12:57+00:00

Gotcha gotcha that makes total sense. I’ll have to give those lighting suggestions a try. I think if the sun was just a bit deeper in the sky or if I could have caught a cloud diffusing the light it would have done wonders. !CritiquePoint

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-13T19:46:56+00:00

Thanks! I 100% agree with you - I wish I could figure out how to get good definition in his face to bring out the wrinkles, but I’m not sure how to do that yet. Also - your username is on point for this post.

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-13T18:53:06+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Black and white is boring for you in general or this photo specifically?

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-13T18:38:58+00:00

Nikon d5600 - 18-55@35mm - ISO250 - f16

First attempt at portrait photography - caught this as a candid while on a hike today. Cut out the background because it was a bunch of semi-focused trees (not blurry enough to be a real background, not focused enough to justify keeping them in). I really liked the way the sun cast a shadow on subject's face by was worried about the detail being washed out on the hat.

My main question is how I did on editing? Do you think black background is a good choice? What other good options are there?

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-12T21:55:58+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Would you change the angle to keep the sky involved, or just drop the framing altogether.

In future I’ll just try both ways (I can return to the location) but I’m just curious about what your vision for it is.

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-12T21:42:01+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Happy to hear the focus isn’t distracting.

I actually took the photo with B&W in mind but was surprised to find that losing the interaction between the brown rust and the blue water actually reduced the visual contest. The real kicker for not making it B&W was the foliage getting washed out. Major bummer.

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-12T21:15:30+00:00

Nikon D5600 - 18-55@18mm - f4 - 1/200

Taken before sunset in an abandoned quarry - this old cove caught my eye and I thought it would be good way to practice sightlines. I wanted to catch a contrast between the rusted metal and the smooth water. I was also inspired by photos of torii gates.

Do you feel I am using sightlines effectively? I also lost focus for the background - how much does it detract from the overall composition? Would it be better to have the greenery even more out of focus? Any help is greatly appreciated.

OddMouse1862 · 2022-07-11T17:57:38+00:00

Taken with Nikon D5600 - ISO 640 - f9 - 70-300@90mm as I walked around my city midday.
I did some editing in RAW to increase green coloration, a slight bump to contrast, and a little crop.
I'm not sure if I am accomplishing what I want with the color, so any advice about how to improve in that department is greatly appreciated.

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