Guitarist

Can anyone lend a critical eye as to what is wrong, if anything is wrong with this photo, apart from the second one, which is at a weird angle (done it on purpose) and also, excuse the file size, I just couldn't get the original one to fit on the image sharing sites

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Cool pics, but for some reason it feels like I'm looking through water when seeing them.... Don't know the correct terminology

Yeah, ok, I get it, but it was the way it was resized, strange innit?

Looks like you turned off the "constrain proportions" box when resizing.
Otherwise, fun pictures.

Well as already mentioned, the aspect ratio of the crop was wrong...makes the shots look distorted. Secondly the color of the second image is way off compared with the first shot. I can't tell if it's maybe from stage lights or if it's just way over-saturated, but the colors in the guitar are so hot there's almost no detail. In fact, it doesn't even look like the same guitar...and I'm saying this as not only a photographer but as a musician/guitar player myself who also does guitar refinishing. In the first shot the guitar looks like it has a "Honey Burst" finish and in the second shot it looks like a "Heritage Cherry Burst". Now I would almost be willing to accept that maybe the guitar player just switched guitars at some point (I do that a lot myself) but if you look at the head stock of the guitar in the second shot...it's blue. Should be black as in the first shot. To me this indicates a color problem with the image and not a different instrument . Beyond that, the expression on the guitar player's face in that second shot just really doesn't capture any emotion or anything...looks like he's just standing there playing.

The first shot, with the correct aspect ratio might make a half-way decent print but at the risk of sounding rude, even if the issues with the second shot were from processing, I don't think I'd really bother with it.

Just my $.02 worth,
Jim

What is your guess is the right aspect ratio?

400dabuser wrote in post #6661402
What is your guess is the right aspect ratio?

Well, first off, it were me I'd just go back and reprocess from the original and as DAMphyne said, make sure you have "constrain proportions" checked when you resize. If for some reason that's not possible (as in you don't have the original), what I would do is make the "canvas" larger in Photoshop and then use the "Free Transform" tool to correct the image...just stretch it horizontally until it looks correct.

Peace,
Jim

nice captures but as others have said the proportions (ratios) are not correct.

Yeah, I know, it just that really I wanted the critic on the photos, really

Ah, then good captures. I like the angles but sometimes they can be overdone. I like the view but also like to mix them up with some traditional looking shots. Here is one of Willie Porter I took last weekend. Dim area it was. ISO 3200 at f2.0

I feel so embarrassed, I put the width pixels higher than the height, and since it was taken at that weird angle, hence the weird aspect ratio (the second one)

Walczak Photo wrote in post #6661092
Well as already mentioned, the aspect ratio of the crop was wrong...makes the shots look distorted. Secondly the color of the second image is way off compared with the first shot. I can't tell if it's maybe from stage lights or if it's just way over-saturated, but the colors in the guitar are so hot there's almost no detail. In fact, it doesn't even look like the same guitar...and I'm saying this as not only a photographer but as a musician/guitar player myself who also does guitar refinishing. In the first shot the guitar looks like it has a "Honey Burst" finish and in the second shot it looks like a "Heritage Cherry Burst". Now I would almost be willing to accept that maybe the guitar player just switched guitars at some point (I do that a lot myself) but if you look at the head stock of the guitar in the second shot...it's blue. Should be black as in the first shot. To me this indicates a color problem with the image and not a different instrument . Beyond that, the expression on the guitar player's face in that second shot just really doesn't capture any emotion or anything...looks like he's just standing there playing.

The first shot, with the correct aspect ratio might make a half-way decent print but at the risk of sounding rude, even if the issues with the second shot were from processing, I don't think I'd really bother with it.

Just my $.02 worth,
Jim

Just think that the sun was shining at that moment, but thanks for your critique