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Hi All,

This is another image I took!

Location: Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC Camera : F70QD Lens : Nikon 28-80mm f3.5-5.6 AF Lens Film : Kodak Elite II 100 Date : July 1999. Support : Slik U9000 Tripod Exposure: Unrecorded (Using spot Meter)

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-- Eddy Lau (laue@home.com), March 20, 2000

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BTW, I will be going to Florida by the end of Apr-May this year, by then hopfully I will be able to provide everyone with a better pics, both in terms of composition, sharpness and ideas!

I already upgraded all my equips to something a little bit better. F100, Tokina 17mm f3.5, 28-70mm f2.6-f2.8, and the Nikon 80-200 f2.8 w/tripod Mt. Film I'll be using would be Portra for Portrait and Fuji Velvia for the others!

May there be more people putting their work here so we can all learn more and continue to educate ourself, and prepare for the best photo opportunities. Eddy Lau

-- Eddy Lau (laue@home.com), March 20, 2000.


Jesus Christ!!! Have you ever noticed this forum has some rules? Within three days you succeeded in breaking three of them.

Every photographer is authorized to post ONE image ONCE a week and the photo cannot show "the hand of man" (unless the car in your second photo is some strange kind of produce) and also the photos should be the "best you have ever taken". Forgive me my honesty but I don't think any of your images meet the quality requirements.

-- David Rypal (rypal@globalex.cz), March 20, 2000.


Sorry, I feel so bad! Thanks for telling me these, I would keep that in mind! I guess one day when I have a picture which has the quality you describe, then I would ..... by then I suppose I should .....! Hope that I didn't cuz you all too much troubles!

-- Eddy Lau (laue@home.com), March 20, 2000.

Welcome to the forum Eddy. You really should take a look at the guide lines. Your images are too big. You need to get them down to 50k so that they don't take to long to load. As noted above one shot a week. This photo is nicely composed but it is soft. It is not a depth of field problem but the whole shot is soft from the foreground to the clouds in the sky. Good Luck

-- Micheal F. Kelly (radiant@gci.net), March 20, 2000.

Eddy...PLease don't be discouraged by some of the comments you have received. You did violate some of the rules...at the same time, you did receive some harsh comments. This is a great place to learn...continue posting. I agree with the earlier comment on this image...it is a little soft. A silhouette of a tree or bush in the foreground will add interest to the image.

-- Bhaskar Thiagarajan (bhaskart@hotmail.com), March 20, 2000.


I think this image also needs some visual interest in the foreground. The first thing that caught my attention was that the brightest areas in the photo look like the letter "i".

-- Andrea Thorrold (thorrold@erols.com), March 21, 2000.

In the future you might want to consider submitting images for critique to PhotCritique (http://www.photocritique.net/). There are no categories to submit to.

-- Cory Christensen (scc@idcnet.com), March 22, 2000.

Between this and your other post, it sounds like you're off to a good start on that negative feedback you mentioned earlier. Be careful what you wish for...and so on.

Two things in your posts caught my eye: first, that you've "only" been shooting since 9/98, and second, that you're upgrading your equipment to an F100 et al. I'm with you on half of those statements, as I also started getting serious in 9/98. However, I don't think the equipment is the problem. I've learned to take what I consider to be good photographs with a manual focus camera that's over 15 years old in the same time it's taken you to learn how to take snapshots with relatively expensive autofocus Nikons. Your posts are good snapshots, but they're not what I'd consider "photographs" because there isn't much feel to them.

Don't lose hope. Shoot a roll of slide film -- you'll feel like a hero. Study other photos you see that you consider to be really good, and try to figure out how to do what they did. Consider putting your zoom lenses down for a while and trying to master the 50mm f/1.4 (or whatever the equivalent is in Nikon) first. Above all, learn to be your own harshest critic. If you look at all your photos and say "Man, that's cool," you're never going to strive to get better. It'll take a while, and in the meantime don't expect to be happy with more than 5 images per roll of 36.

-- Christian Deichert (torgophile@aol.com), March 23, 2000.


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