Photo Critique Club

[notabitail]

What do you all think of these photos?

 

[notabitail]

I've been using Samsung phones for years because they've had the best cameras on them. Apple's new models are even with them now, but If you're going refurb, S21 or S21 ultra.

These are from my Note 20 ultra. random images and lighting ti give a good idea.
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These are from my Samsung Galaxy Note9. I really like the camera, but I prefer a real camera over a phone any day, unless I need something I can shove into my pocket.

 

[notabitail]

I will say I'm not a fan of the zoom. I think there's room for improvement there. Also, I hold that opinion universally for all phones. There's just no software zoom that stacks up to an optical physical zoom.

Mine sits for a while before letting me zoom after I take a photo. No phone can have the same zoom as a real camera.
I also don't like what I'm hearing about the S23 Ultra and the AI "enhanced" photos of the moon.

 

[azurbanclucker]

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The leaves at the top are a visual distraction and pull the eye away from the birb. Watch your composition and focus, tail is cropped out here and you're a little soft on the focus when you try and zoom in on the eye. That could be just being one fraction of a second off on shutter speed as well so you're getting a tiny bit of motion. Is this a cell shot or a camera?

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Same here. Watch your composition and focus. The bush isn't as distracting here, but you want to try and eliminate anything that can draw your eye away from your subject.

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This doesn't work for me. You have too much negative space all around the bird, and the awkward body position doesn't help. Focus is still soft as well., You want to make sure the sharpest point is the eye, and that's a little fuzzy here.

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Focus is better here, nice and sharp on the eye/face, but all the other clutter in the shot is distracting. More chicken, less yard.

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Wattles and lower beak in focus. Eye is not. Reverse that

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Nothing is really in focus here.

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Samesies.

 

[notabitail]

The leaves at the top are a visual distraction and pull the eye away from the birb. Watch your composition and focus, tail is cropped out here and you're a little soft on the focus when you try and zoom in on the eye. That could be just being one fraction of a second off on shutter speed as well so you're getting a tiny bit of motion. Is this a cell shot or a camera?



Same here. Watch your composition and focus. The bush isn't as distracting here, but you want to try and eliminate anything that can draw your eye away from your subject.


This doesn't work for me. You have too much negative space all around the bird, and the awkward body position doesn't help. Focus is still soft as well., You want to make sure the sharpest point is the eye, and that's a little fuzzy here.


Focus is better here, nice and sharp on the eye/face, but all the other clutter in the shot is distracting. More chicken, less yard.



Wattles and lower beak in focus. Eye is not. Reverse that



Nothing is really in focus here.


Samesies.

It's a real camera. Normally I use my phone, but there was a Canon EOS 30D laying around. So I started using that instead. Trying to figure it out still. The chickens move a lot so it is hard to get a good photo of them.
I don't know if it's just me, but why does the focus get stuck sometimes? I have it on autofocus most of the time.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Which picture of fluffies is best?

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Which picture of fluffies is best?
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At quick glance, I like #1 and #3 the best, but #1 could have a better point of focus and maybe not the hen on the left seeing that wasn't the picture's point. Pictures #2 and #4 are good, though #4 would be the best out of those two, seeing the dandelion looks complete. Going down some on #4 to give more distance, taking it as landscape to eliminate the stem some, and possibly changing direction for better lightening (depending on whether you wanted the sunset or other lightening effects or not) would probably help improve that picture some. Personally, out of all of them, picture #1 is my overall favorite, which is because of the whole layout of the picture, including the sunset background.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

At quick glance, I like #1 and #3 the best, but #1 could have a better point of focus and maybe not the hen on the left seeing that wasn't the picture's point. Pictures #2 and #4 are good, though #4 would be the best out of those two, seeing the dandelion looks complete. Going down some on #4 to give more distance, taking it as landscape to eliminate the stem some, and possibly changing direction for better lightening (depending on whether you wanted the sunset or other lightening effects or not) would probably help improve that picture some. Personally, out of all of them, picture #1 is my overall favorite, which is because of the whole layout of the picture, including the sunset background.

Thank you! These were just cell shots on the spur of the moment. I got some camera photos tonight, and I’ll see how those turn out.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Which picture of fluffies is best?
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Four.

I like the wider presentation and colors in 1, but the composition's a bit rough. Shooting low and directly into the sun you have to be careful to not blow the scene out and try to balance your light. Hard to do with a cell cam, I know.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I hate dust. A story in 2 photographs.

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