I honestly don't understand how could some of these photos be considered "Your Best Nikon Shots". There are some wonderful photos posted by some users, that get overshadowed by distasteful garbage, thats should have been hung in a public restrooms of 3rd world countries. This post should be monitored by the moderator and cleaned up. It is just painful to look at some of the garbage that was posted here.
Vladik1980 why don't you tell us how you really feel?
A lot of people are posting "Your Best Nikon Shots". Pictures they really think are their better pictures, it is hard to argue with their own choices. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
It would be better off if you pointed out the faults of the pictures that you didn't enjoy so the Photographer can improve their shots.
Slug69. This forum had always been a go to place to get inspired and see photographs from the people who actually have skills, people who an eye for a composition, people who are great in post processing, or people who have all of the above. Now-a-days, any moron can get a DSLR and post tasteless boring pictures. I’m not saying that I’m great photographer or better than anybody here, at least I choose not to post crap that will simply waste people’s time by clicking through pages and pages of crap to see something good.
BTW, you posted some worth while photos, I enjoyed them!
This thread has grown dramatically since it's inception and has remained active only because people continue posting some of their pictures. I may not think every picture is a masterpiece, but what I do like is seeing the ones I would consider a masterpiece.
vladik1980 wrote:
I honestly don't understand how could some of these photos be considered "Your Best Nikon Shots". There are some wonderful photos posted by some users, that get overshadowed by distasteful garbage, thats should have been hung in a public restrooms of 3rd world countries. This post should be monitored by the moderator and cleaned up. It is just painful to look at some of the garbage that was posted here.
Until you have posted something better here keep your mouth shut!
Everyone's entitled to their opinions...but allow me to point out the obvious.
#1) There's a forum for critiques
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#2)
1) What are the FM forum rules?
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* Be courteous, and polite. Do not use profanity, viciously bash others, be rude, hateful, threatening, abusive, invasive, or otherwise violate any laws."
Further, there are helpful ways to critique and then there are clearly "unhelpful" ways to critique...the latter of which usually ends up badly for everyone involved.
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Shutterslam wrote:
Everyone's entitled to their opinions...but allow me to point out the obvious.
#1) There's a forum for critiques
and
#2)
Further, there are helpful ways to critique and then there are clearly "unhelpful" ways to critique...the latter of which usually ends up badly for everyone involved.
Most people don't know how to take a good critique and I'm not the kind of person to pour sludge over people's heads for their mistakes. What most of the beginners should do is read a book and look what a good photographs look like and get some background on photography prior to posting BS and ask people to correct their mistakes. Most of the people now-a-days are too liberal in their comments from which people don’t learn anything.
This thread has grown dramatically since it's inception and has remained active only because people continue posting some of their pictures. I may not think every picture is a masterpiece, but what I do like is seeing the ones I would consider a masterpiece.
First bit of aggravation I have seen on this thread I think.
I shot with Velvia 50 over the new year holiday break using an old Nikon F50 and a Tokina 19 – 35 lens. I have had the four rolls I shot mounted and a friend brought over a Bell and Howell projector (made in Australia no less) it must have been almost 50 years old.
The colours blew us away. No digital projector that I know of could reproduce what I saw last night. I think the digital world has a long way to go yet to replicate that sort of resolution, saturation/colour depth.
The pics weren’t that great because I was so unsure as to how well the camera would meter properly so I bracketed a lot. I shouldn’t have. The Camera got it right most of the time. The lens however, not so good. I think I will send it to Tokina to correct it. It seemed very hit and miss and I confirmed as much on my D70 as well.
My friend who brought the projector was so impressed with the results from the film. (I had an airline pilot friend of mine purchase the rolls from Sammy’s in LA at $6.80 Australian - in other words very cheap; it would be almost three times that price here. He has lent me a Yashicamat to shoot 120mm on so I guess I will ask my friend to go to Sammy’s again!
I will scan the handful I was proud of and post here. It was from a music festival and I will sort through my D70 shots as well. BTW the D70 with the 35mm 1.8, SB-800 copped a drenching several times and still didn’t miss a beat! I can’t express my love for the Nikon speedlights enough. They are amazing. Damn near every photo in perfect exposure with the speedlight on – out of hundreds!
vladik1980 wrote:
.... There are some wonderful photos posted by some users, that get overshadowed by distasteful garbage, thats should have been hung in a public restrooms of 3rd world countries.
That's a really nice view about our planet and human race.
vladik1980, thanks for the kind words. It's far from a masterpiece, I would say it's between a fair to good technical capture.
BluePixel, This is a Cicada Metamorphosizing (if that is even a word).
rsolti13, I used a 200mm Micro Nikkor on a Kodak 14n camera (it's legal, really it's legal to post here since it was a Nikon lense ). This is a fairly heavy crop (40%) from the original size. ISO 160 f/27 1/60th second with flash.
