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 08/20/2002 06:57:14 AM · #1
Hi All Experts,

This is my 1st visit to this website and now its become one of my favourite website. Am an novice in digital photography and would like to develop it as a skill. I have couple of photographs, which I do not think that they stand in front of the picyures here. But is there anyway that I can submit my photos on this website, so that I can receive your feedbacks on my developing interest.

Thanks
Ashish
 08/20/2002 07:09:51 AM · #2
The photos cannot be submitted in the weekly contests due to the rule that the photos must be taken the same week as the challenge. However, anytime you want an honest critique, post your photos in the forum. Many of our members give excellent critiques.

Oh and by the way, we aren't all experts. I have had my camera less than a year and have never had a photography class. That doesn't stop me from submitting and I hope you will jump in too. Have fun and welcome to our addiction. : ' )
 08/20/2002 07:12:14 AM · #3
Ashish, go to www.pbase.com and upload your photos there. Then come back here and provide a link to those photos for critiques. Welcome to the site :)

karen
 08/20/2002 11:34:43 PM · #4
Hi Karen & sandra,
I am so glad to see you instant replies to my message. I have uploaded few pics of at this URL
//www.pbase.com/ashishtibrewal/nepal_visit. I would be thankful if I can receive your valuable feedback on my work.

Thanks
Ashish
 08/21/2002 12:28:55 AM · #5
Great Stuff Ashish!

I really like the baby photo and the monk photo. Awesome! I want to go....
 08/21/2002 03:12:01 AM · #6
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I am so happy you found this place Ashish. I believe your talent will be a welcome addition here. I picked a few of my favorites from your photos posted. I especially like the trees...the rich greens and the shadows on the ground make this a really beautiful shot to me. I never knew that Nepal was so beautiful. I chose the wing shot because I found the peak jutting out from the clouds just a really nice and interesting shot. I liked the rock formations because I thought the framing of that shot was great and I love the interesting shapes of that photo. Remember that when you post here, the photos you shoot for each challenge should be taken within the dates specified. Welcome to DPC Ashish...I wish you good luck.
I'm not the best one here to critique photos so I hope that others will take a look at your work as well. I just think you have some very beautiful photos there.

thanks...

Karen :)
 08/21/2002 05:49:40 AM · #7
Thanks KD & Gameboy for your appreciations. It really encouraged me a lot and I promise that I will keep up my good work. I hope to receive valuable feedback from you.
 08/21/2002 06:54:35 AM · #8
Sorry .. do not have that much time right now but .... while the threas is 'hot', I looked at the 4 link Karen copied in her message and I lilke them ... the 'ceremony' maybe a little less (my eyes cannot keep going to the flash reflection once I noticed it).
I like the trees a lot, I would have give it a 8. what waowed me was the light ... I started looking at this site only 5 days ago but I see too much pictures, for my taste, with sharpening, enhanced colors ....
The wing I like as well a lot.For the 'rocks one'. I like it but at the begining I was seeing the upper part and it was suggesting peace and calm and 'zen' to me so when I see the whole picture .... I am kind of dispaointed to see the rocks .. i feel them a little 'agressive' but that's because of my initial perception.
BUT they are nice and the 'tree/forest' one is one I would have like to do ... and depending of the competition in the contest, I would have put you in the top 3.
Sincere Congrats !
I hope this encourage you ... and your pictures and the comments people are doing .. encourage ME as well !Oh and I just looked again at the forest one, I see you used the 'regular' quality, be carefull with trees ans forest and jpg. For that one, it would probably have been better to use like 'superfine' .. a friend of mpe just bought a 128MB for 50 $ online .... I think your pictures deserve it (if you have less than 128, and if you have enough 'space' ... then maybe choose like 'superfine'.
I ended writing more thant I thought .. and my shirt for today is still not ironed .... your fault ;-)
Lionel

 08/21/2002 07:08:06 AM · #9
//www.pbase.com/ashishtibrewal/from_bombay_to_pune
Few more pics. Would be thankful to receive feedback from you all on this gallery
 08/21/2002 07:38:47 AM · #10
I looked at all of your photos and saw many favorites. I liked the ceremony, elephants, the close up of the train tracks, and the ducks. I noticed that you have very vibrant colors in your pictures. As many of us have learned, you need to take an extra couple of seconds to line up your shots and focus. Try to get distracting items out of your pictures either by trying different angles or crop them out with a photo editing program.

I hope you will post to some of our contests. There are photographers from all levels of skill posting here and you definately show a talent for photography.

Thanks for posting your photos. Now I think I'm going to go back and look at those elephants again. I just love the shadows in that photo.
 08/21/2002 08:21:58 AM · #11
A little call for coments on those one ?
First shots

This is my first challenge here, I am at 5.80 and 'satisfied' with that, I am more happy with the comments I got.

I am VERY happy with the canon s30 now I just regret a little that its macro mode is not 'better' but I like it a lo ....

One PB with this site is ..... I am at work .. and I go check the score (more often that I should) but at the same time I look at the forum and .. that's not good for my work eficiency .. sighhhh

Thanks for comments
Lionel
 08/21/2002 08:34:24 AM · #12
Hey Ashish,

Welcome to DPC. I'm pretty new here too.

I loved all your Nepal photos but I had a couple of particular favourites. First of all - the photo of the monks is great. The only small criticism is that there's a reflection of your flash (or is it the sun?) in a far picture. However, given that you must have had a very limited opportunity to take this there was no doubt little you could do about it.

Another of my favourites is this shot of a mountain. The mountain is wonderfully framed in front and behind by the clouds. I particularly thought this might benefit from cropping closer. I hope you dont mind but I had a quick bash at doing that in Photoshop. At the same time I did a VERY rough job of colour balancing and sharpening it. I'm sure there are quite a few Photoshop wranglers here that could do a better job of it than I did here. But mercifully photoshop skills are not a required part of dpchallenge.com. :)

this picture. The angle of the wing and of the body of the plane are interesting and the way you framed the whole thing works really well.

In general the only suggestion I have for improving your photos is to watch your light. Wherever possible try to make sure that your subjects are as well lit as possible. Be particularly careful of getting a lot of very white sky in your pictures. It often fools the exposure metering of many cameras and can make the main subject of your shot look dark.

This was a great way to introduce yourself here - I hope we'll see you submitting photos to the challenges.

Regards,
John
 08/21/2002 08:41:52 AM · #13
Lionel - my fellow S30 owner!

Just had a look at your pictures and they're great. I especially like FenceBoat and Bouee. You seem to have a good eye for an interesting shot and both shots demonstrate that you seem to have come to grips with your new camera!

I hope you'll enjoy using your new camera and we'll see some of the results as submissions to the challenges.

Regards,
John
 08/21/2002 08:56:38 AM · #14
Originally posted by floyd:
Hey Ashish,

Welcome to DPC. I'm pretty new here too.

I loved all your Nepal photos but I had a couple of particular favourites. First of all - the photo of the monks is great. The only small criticism is that there's a reflection of your flash (or is it the sun?) in a far picture. However, given that you must have had a very limited opportunity to take this there was no doubt little you could do about it.

Another of my favourites is this shot of a mountain. The mountain is wonderfully framed in front and behind by the clouds. I particularly thought this might benefit from cropping closer. I hope you dont mind but I had a quick bash at doing that in Photoshop. At the same time I did a VERY rough job of colour balancing and sharpening it. I'm sure there are quite a few Photoshop wranglers here that could do a better job of it than I did here. But mercifully photoshop skills are not a required part of dpchallenge.com. :)

this picture. The angle of the wing and of the body of the plane are interesting and the way you framed the whole thing works really well.

In general the only suggestion I have for improving your photos is to watch your light. Wherever possible try to make sure that your subjects are as well lit as possible. Be particularly careful of getting a lot of very white sky in your pictures. It often fools the exposure metering of many cameras and can make the main subject of your shot look dark.

This was a great way to introduce yourself here - I hope we'll see you submitting photos to the challenges.

Regards,
John

Hey Floyd,

The reason you see the flash in the monks picture is that, it was just a second day of my camera, and i really didnt went in so much details. BUt now I can realise that this minor things can be a big thing.

You wont belive but the mountain that you edited in Photoshop is non other than Mount everest on the left side of the picture. I was just few miles away from the peak :) I am glad that you liked the pics

As you mentioned abou the lights, I am really very poor in seting proper lights for my pictures. I struggle a lot while clicking night shots. My close subjects at night are affected by over exposure while long shots come just black. Is there any way that I can overcome this situation

Thanks mate
Ashish
 08/21/2002 10:12:35 AM · #15
Ashish,

How you handle night-time exposures will depend on what your camera is and what it can do.

If your camera has a flash exposure compensation setting then try setting that down by a couple of steps for close-up pictures - or up a couple of steps for far-away pictures. Those far-away pictures are very difficult at night, though.

One special feature that your camera might have is a night scene mode. The icon for it is usually a little person on a black background. What that will do is fire the flash to light up the nearby subjects but also leave the apature open longer so that the background is correctly exposed. You can get some great results with this mode but you'll often need to use a tripod to avoid blur from shaky hands.

Hope that helps.

John
 08/26/2002 08:24:59 AM · #16
How many photos can we sublit in a challenge?

Thanks
Ashish
 08/26/2002 12:20:35 PM · #17
Originally posted by ashishtibrewal:
How many photos can we sublit in a challenge?

Thanks
Ashish

Just one. Anything more will get you DQ'ed.
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