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The "Have People Criticize Your Own Photos" thread

onofno

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Hi Amirm, I discovered ASR because I'm a client of the french website Audiophonics. They are selling all kinds of hifi products including Topping and SMSL. Instead of saying "this product is good or very good" they place a link to your review.
They even build their own hifi materials. The website is bilingual F and E.
I've read many reviews before registering.

I hope one day you will review the Drawmer MC1.1 preamp because I plan to buy it.
https://www.musicstore.com/en_US/USD/Drawmer-MC1-1/art-REC0012122-000
 

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Hi Amirm, I discovered ASR because I'm a client of the french website Audiophonics. They are selling all kinds of hifi products including Topping and SMSL. Instead of saying "this product is good or very good" they place a link to your review.
They even build their own hifi materials. The website is bilingual F and E.
I've read many reviews before registering.
Yes, it is very kind of them to link to reviews here. They are really a good store to do business with.

I hope one day you will review the Drawmer MC1.1 preamp because I plan to buy it.
https://www.musicstore.com/en_US/USD/Drawmer-MC1-1/art-REC0012122-000
I had not seen that before. Hopefully someone in US has one that loans it for testing.
 

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in "St Jean-de-Luz", SW France, 3 weeks ago...
this is no art, just a photocopy at 1/1000
Canon G7X - increase the brightness on your computer


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Canon G7X
 
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I climbed on a scaffolding to take the image. The color is due to street lighting with vapor sodium lamps - like 50 years ago - so you see what I saw. On the left the church.
Canon G7X Mark 2 - increase the brightness on your computer...

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Canon G7X
 
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Last summer, through my not-that-clean bay window, as the light was fading, hand-held but braced. Hummingbird on our Lilac bush. Canon 7D with EF 70-200 f/2.8 IS MK II. I wish there had been more light, I was right at the edge or slightly past what I'd consider even acceptable in terms of grain with ISO 2000. Would have benefited from a slightly deeper depth of field, but then it would have been even grainier.
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Thanks!

If it were me I’d try to smooth out that upper right hand corner with a healing brush or clone stamp tool or whatever.
This may be holding me back, but I almost always restrict myself to only cropping and playing with levels/balance/lens corrections in Lightroom, unless there's something major that can easily be fixed. Not saying it wouldn't help here though.

My primary subject and the reason I bought the camera and lens was taking pictures of ballroom dance competitions when I was a member of our team in grad school. I usually took 1-2k pictures in a day at a comp, then went though and rated/filtered/tagged, picked a few good ones per team member, and then tweaked those to post on Facebook so each person could see themselves (over the following week or three). It still ended up being 100-150 photos to edit per comp (2-3 per semester), so if I couldn't do the tweaks in a few minutes in Lightroom natively, it wasn't worth it, especially when the vast majority of the pictures never got printed and only saw the light as recompressed by Facebook into jpeg artifact hell. I've retained that mindset, even though I don't take as many pictures anymore.

[rant] I've seen friend's parents print out the Facebook versions of my pictures and frame them - it makes me twitch. For the last few years I've always included a statement that I'll gladly send anyone the full quality export without a watermark if they ever want to print it. Seeing the pictures like that after the effort I put into editing them (color calibrated screen, high quality lens, time spent tweaking), it's like listening to your favorite symphony recording but at 96kbps CBR mp3. [/rant]
 

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Took this with a Fujufilm X-E3 at a Buddhist temple near my apartment in Jeonggwan, Korea. I don't like the blurred post in the lower middle but couldn't get up higher.

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This is a picture of Biarritz, SW France, at 8:20pm. On the left the, the legendary Hôtel du Palais***** overlooks the "Grande Plage" - "large beach" - like a ship firmly moored at the ocean’s edge. Some movie stars are coming here on vacation. In the past Coco Chanel, Ernest Hemingway, Gary Cooper, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra to name a few... were "at home" in that hôtel. In the center of the image, the Casino where you can win or lose 500.000€ in three minutes.
This is not art... this is advertising for Biarritz, I would like to live here. (I've taken the picture)

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https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/france/hotel-du-palais-biarritz/biqub
Canon G7X
 
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Five years ago I went to a flea market, after maybe one hour having found nothing of interest I decided to leave. At about thirty meters from the exit I saw this pretty girl. I asked her if I could take a picture, I think that she said yes because my camera was small... I just told her to look at the lens. She told me that she was born in Syria and adopted by a french couple. These people had another girl same age, older, blonde and beautiful too...

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As you can see I use small cameras I even think the Canon G7X is too big. I think about buying the Ricoh GR 3.
If you like some of my pictures, it makes me happy. I appreciate positive comments, you can criticize as well... beware, if necessary I'll reply.

(sorry, my english comes from school - 24 years ago - hopefully our teacher was born in Florida, her name was Brenda Rhodes... I'll never forget her...)
 
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As you can see I use small cameras I even think the Canon G7X is too big. I think about buying the RICOH GR 3.
I had (well have) the analog Ricoh GR1s and loved it. I would love to get a digital one but I need a view finder, so I stick with my Panasonic GX7.
 

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I guess no one is interested in pics from my Canon Power Shot A620 :(
Works great for me. :)
 

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Took this one while driving, didn’t have time to stop, get out, and properly compose, but with some editing I think it came out great; the original photo was so colorless and foggy that making it B&W with boosted contrast made it more interesting.

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Took this while in London to watch 2012 Olympics (saw the USA women’s soccer team win Gold), and I felt lucky that someone had a Union Jack umbrella in the shot that only leaving that in color makes it pretty cool.
 
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I had (well have) the analog Ricoh GR1s and loved it. I would love to get a digital one but I need a view finder, so I stick with my Panasonic GX7.

The Ricoh GR - GR2 - GR3 are well built cameras with an incredible lens. The GR2 is mythic...
The GR3 is a digital APSC 24m/pix Camera that disappears in a pocket, very light, very small, unobtrusive, people are thinking it's a toy.
And yes no view finder (you can add one), a touchscreen not even an articulate one.
 
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The Ricoh GR - GR2 - GR3 are well built cameras with and incredible lens. The GR2 is mythic...
The GR3 is a digital APSC 24m/pix Camera that disappears in a pocket, very light, very small, unobtrusive, people are thinking it's a toy.
And yes no view finder (you can add one), a touchscreen not even an articulate one.

I love the GR Digital. Here's a shot I got with mine on a ski trip some years back. The only thing that's really lacking compared to modern compacts like the Sony DSC series is the autofocus, which is slow and doesn't like working in low light. But that APS-C sensor ...

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