My Photos

[Alexandra]

Photography classes can be so diverse and strange sometimes; I've had everything from the super technical to the extremely artistic, and I'm honestly not sure which approach is better. Sure, knowing what the camera does is important, but it's difficult to teach someone how to take a photo beyond the technical aspect, or so I have observed.


One thing I've been attempting to do with my is knowing what photo I want to take before I put my eye to the camera, and this is tricky. I come from a fine art background where I usually have no issue with image making, but this is some kind of weird mental block I seen to have constructed for myself. I've found that joining a photography group is starting to help me get over that; talking to other artists about their process helps me puzzle things out.

 

[Alexandra]

Oh, and gosh, it goes without saying; never stop taking photos!

 

[Tiny Turtle]

Photography classes can be so diverse and strange sometimes; I've had everything from the super technical to the extremely artistic, and I'm honestly not sure which approach is better. Sure, knowing what the camera does is important, but it's difficult to teach someone how to take a photo beyond the technical aspect, or so I have observed.
One thing I've been attempting to do with my is knowing what photo I want to take before I put my eye to the camera, and this is tricky. I come from a fine art background where I usually have no issue with image making, but this is some kind of weird mental block I seen to have constructed for myself. I've found that joining a photography group is starting to help me get over that; talking to other artists about their process helps me puzzle things out.

Yeah. It's an interesting experience to say the least. Unfortunately the vibes of the class are iffy because a lot of the people in the class are just there for the 'easy' credit. I think that there should be a balance because there is also the technical side of lighting and things like emotion...etc. But I agree that technicalities can only go so far and learning how to fine-tune your eye and stuff is also very big.


I find that for me that technique is something I have yet to master. Generally I imagine taking these crazy photos that involve a lot of photoshop and I don't yet have the skills or resources to format the whole thing so I've started to just look at things through the lens of my camera and see what looks good. I find though that my block is more with coloured photos, since I am never 100% happy with them, which is odd I guess. This thread is actually pretty helpful to me since I'm getting interesting feedback and having conversations like these ones with other photographers.


Mind if I ask if you've got a photography thread too? Since I'd love to check it out!

 

[Tiny Turtle]

Here are a bunch of unedited photos taken at 11pm. They're flowers I got from my boyfriend on valentines, and I sorta forgot to take pictures of them before so they've all got flash *crai*. This isn't my best work but hey. I tried. I'll be touching these up in Darktable by the latest of Monday and then posting the edited pictures. I'm going to New York over the weekend so expect many pictures to come your way soon hopefully!

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[Tiny Turtle]

I totally forgot to update this thread. Anyways, here's my pictures from my trip to New York

I had to take some pictures for photography class, and the assignment was street photography

 

[MeGoRawrr]

I think your photography is amazing! Very beautiful. (: I've always had a love of it, myself, though I lack all necessary skills. xD


Keep it up; You can only improve from here. (^U^)

 

[Tiny Turtle]

I think your photography is amazing! Very beautiful. (: I've always had a love of it, myself, though I lack all necessary skills. xD
Keep it up; You can only improve from here. (^U^)

Thank you! I'm sure you can learn to be a good photographer, it really just takes a camera (I started by using my phone camera) and just snapping pictures, eventually you'll get an eye for it and improve a whole lot.

 

[Skiriki]

These are really good!

 

[Alexandra]

Hmm. The NY photos seem to be broken on my end; I can't see them.


And also; boompin' so you keep posting photos here