My first post, with photos

[Casek McHaggis]

Since this is my first post Ill introduce myself. My name is Tyson and I live in Oregon state. I'm pretty new to photography, only been at it for about a month now so I have lots to learn. Here are a couple of my better efforts so far. Both taken with a 40D and a 24-70L lens

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk217/Casek_McHaggis/Liz2.jpg

This is Liz according to her tag, she showed up wile I was fishing with my dad last weekend. She followed us around most of the day and managed to mooch part of our lunch before she decided to head for home.



http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk217/Casek_McHaggis/TrapWagonBW.jpg

Interior shot of an old Chevy trap wagon that has sat unused for years. I converted it to B&W as a experiment, I think it turned out all right.

[Sisyphus]

Hey Tyson, send some of that dryness from your side of the state over here, willya? Heh! The two photos are very different from one another and I like both for different reasons. Both have "personality." The first is just a good capture. The dog seems so full of life, despite the simplicity of the shot. You seem to capture the essence of things without a lot of superfluous distraction. And this holds true in the second photo, as well. The conversion is brilliant and contributes to the aged, dusty feeling. Any detail outside the cab is lost, but that's actually a plus, as we're concentrating here on the interior. Very nice stuff, in my opinion.

[jgrussell]

Welcome to POTN, Tyler. You have a good eye. Let's see some more.

[luvsadog2]

Tyson... I really like both shots, the second one is really interesting ... keep up the good work and keep posting! Carla

[mjmackinnon]

Photo #2 is an interesting shot. it looks more cepia than B&W. How did you do the conversion. In Photoshop CS3 and above, under image / adjustments / black & white filter.

This will let you control not only the conversion saturation of your RGB but also the inverse CMY. This will allow you to pop more of the detail that is in the original colour photo but is lost if you just do a simple dump to grey.

Matt.

[tonydee]

Hi Tyson. Good work with the first shot... that you can make out individual hairs above the eye shows good focus and a shutter speed plenty fast enough to freeze any motion (as 1/800s is wont to be). The largish f/4 aperture has created a nice bokeh. You've left plenty of open space in front to create a sense of anticipation and outward concentration, and he's looking towards the corner which works in well with your vignet... more mystery in shadows.

#2: Not quite so successful in my opinion... I find the heightened contrasts inside the cabin remove vital clues to the curvature of surfaces, making parts of it look suddenly flat or harshly cut in. For example, the far side of the steering wheel, and the near edge of the speedometer area. The eye will naturally go to the instrument panel, and I think at least some of that needs to be pretty exceptionally sharp - and without too much reflected glare - to satisfy the viewer's instinct.

All up, promising work.

Cheers, Tony

[Casek McHaggis]

Thanks for the comments. I like the first one quite a bit. The second one is more sepia than actually B&W. Its the result of playing with different adjustment layers to try and get a better understanding of what they did. I'm still learning Photoshop so I didn't have a particular goal in mind for the finished photo.

[XJS999]

Tyson, good job. I really like #2: sepia is wonderfully done.

[Bukanza]

They're both fine, but in all honestly I'm not in love with the first one. Don't get me wrong - there's nothing really wrong with it but it's just rather bland. It's basically just a static profile showing no emotion with far too much vignetting applied.

Not bad for a beginner, though! My first shots with SLR were terrible. ;)

[Flo]

I do like the first very much.the expression is sweet and the composition is pleasing. Besides.who doesn;t love a lab;)

Second one is cool, but just me, I am not a sepia fan, it seems to be used where other alternatives could be. Sepia seems to bleed all the hue into one without alot of definition( again, just my bent)

Tried another version, and added grain.when I was playing, I saw the key hanging on the ignition:Dhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/emmaloudawg/TrapWagonBW.jpg

[Casek McHaggis]

Tried another version, and added grain.when I was playing, I saw the key hanging on the ignition:D

I like what you have done with it. I might have to go back and play with it some more. Yup the keys are in it, although it hasn't ran for close to 30 years.