Vintage look?

Here are a couple more of Keagan. I love the vintage look of these. At first i was a little annoyed by the graininess of them, but in the end I like how it leant to the feel of the pictures. What do you think?

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Hey Teresa, looking at two of the post you have on the first page currently I can tell you like PS. I think you have cute images and good subjects, but the post work takes away from them IMO. A good image can be enhanced with textures and actions but should be able to stand alone by itself. I really think you should post up some originals. Your comp is strong and I think you would get better feed back from originals or small adjustments. Keep posting...

Chris

I like the composition as well. When you said vintage look, I wasn't expecting to see the bright red and blue of the outfit and think the colors don't fit with the "vintage" description.. I was expecting to see some b/w or sepia, like this post (https://photography-on-the.net …hp?p=10692240&p​ostcount=1). I'd like to see the originals as well. Love the mohawk, cute kid!!

Thanks so much Chris. I can't wait to get to the point that my images are good enough to stand on their own without much work. And you are right, I do depend more on photoshop program than I do my camera. I'm very intimidated by the camera. I don't know jack about the technicalities of it, just pick it up and start snapping. Guess it's apparent that my background in photography started with scrapbooking. LOL! I'm starting some classes this fall though, so things can only get better from here. I love posting here for the straight forward critiques and honest opinions. Thanks so much for yours.

No problem. Keep shooting and enjoy what your doing. Challenge your self by putting the Camera on auto and noting what it thinks you should do. Then go to manual and set it up the same. From there, adj your f stop and note how the image changes. Then do the same with ISO. We're shooting digital now so 200 crap shots cost nothing but time.
When I first got LR i went out and downloaded every preset I could find. Some worked, some didnt. Even for the ones that did it still gave me no understandig of how they worked. PS is the same. Until you grab an image and just start messing with it you wont break away from the presets.
I recently started shooting on white seamless. (I have a couple post in this section) one thing I like about it is there is not alot of room for post work. It is what it is, and you get a chance just to focus on the shot. Sorry to go on like this. Keep shooting and posting.

Btw, I do like the redo of the lady bug shots better. And I can see the painted look you were going for.

Chris

I think you're maybe over saturating a little bit? And yes, somehow you're overprocessing - all the edges look kind of digitized. I agree - try posting your originals with your end results and maybe some folks can give you some more specific ideas.

Hey, I like the idea of shooting in auto then switching to manual and adjusting from there. I know my camera can be linked to my laptop so as I take the pictures I can see the results right away. Now I need to dig out my manual and figure out how to do that. Great tip! Thanks!

Love the pictures, not the PP. I think the originals are probably better than you think.

Ha! Ha! I don't know about that! LOL!! Here are the pics SOOC. My daughter and I were bored one day so just for giggles we took him outside, set up the backdrop stand, and started snapping. I thought I was in a good shady spot but noticed after I imported the pics how badly the sun was poking through the trees. I learn something new every day.

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After seeing the SOOC on these Teressa, I can tell you that one problem is you are cropping in way to much for your gear. If you shot these with a 30D in jpeg, then cropped to the images above, you are loosing a ton of mega-pixels. Try to imagine what you want your shot to look like SOOC and compose for it. You will retain more detail that way.

Chris

I agree with the above. The quality of the image is bad, not the picture.

I love the idea and creativity of this shot!

I don't think you are focusing right as the original is really soft. Are you using manual point selection and choosing a point directly over the subject? Are you using single shot AF? It looks like you are attempting to recover detail that isn't there by overuse of PS sharpening tools and it isn't working well, IMO.

The 30D can take plenty of cropping and still look good at these sizes, so I don't think cropping is the problem. You need to start with a sharper shot. Like others have said, the "art" is there in these shots, but not the technique.

Thank you for clarifying that for me, Chris. I thought that with my camera,I had all of these extra mega pixels to spare. So I thought if I started with an image that was 48 x 32 inches (which is the size of the file SOOC) I could crop it as an 8x10 getting rid of unwanted space without harming the quality of the photo. And I usually like my images cropped at creative angles, so i allow for that by zooming out when taking the pictures. Does that make sense?


Thank you, CG Nelson. I loved the idea of it too. There were many others with him making the funniest expressions that just weren't fixable. (