Lunar Feedback

[solemn mauve]

Similarly to the feedback I had for Josh, I think this would be a lot more pleasing straightened. I don’t love the colors, it seems just a tad too bright or saturated

[tawdry matrix]

Hmm thanks, I crooked it a bit on purpose to extenuate the car body roll but it’s good to know it doesn’t make it better

As for the colors, I never know how to work with grass, any tips there?

[sterile halo]

Hello again lunar :) saw you disliked da green car :

May I know why exactly??

[solemn mauve]

Honestly I think all three of these shots are gorgeous. My minor nitpicks:

1. Seems like a gorgeous scene! I think the colors are a bit too pushed, very blue/orange contrast, but I'd like to see something a little more natural.
2. Flower photos aren't ever my favorite, but I think you've done a good job isolating the subject, and providing an interesting background. Nothing really negative I can say about this one.
3. The grain on this one seems a bit severe, and I think the crop could be a little further in, but that's pretty subjective

[solemn mauve]

The blurry double reflection just makes me kind of nauseous (I have motion sickness issues) and overall it's very mono-tone (which I know seems like the point.) The top of the dice being clipped off feels wrong. I think it's just a bit too close, if that makes sense? I think it could work a little bit further back. Aside from that, I just don't find cars very interesting

[subtle nest]

well its all a gamble XD (ya know... dice?)

[solemn mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/critical-role-crit-role-cr-c1-vox-machina-gif-16803434

[subtle nest]

whatcha think of this @solemn mauve

[subtle nest]

my bad

[solemn mauve]

If you want feedback directly from mediocre old me, go ahead and post your photo here. Please try to limit it to 3 photos. I will try to respond to all photos as best I can!

[solemn mauve]

1. The horse is cute, but doesn’t feel entirely in focus, and the angle is really throwing me
2. This is a striking sky, but I feel like the lower portion of the image doesn’t add enough, the silhouette doesn’t bring much to the photo
3. The kitten is adorable, but the vignetting isn’t great, and the kitten isn’t entirely in focus. And it could be leveled

[steep talon]

Do you think this is appealing?

[solemn mauve]

I think it looks like a vintage ad, I love it. My only complaint is that I’d like the text “Lubitel” to be straightened

[steep talon]

Thanks!

The text is kind of bugging me too. But when I straightened it I like it less for some reason.

[solemn mauve]

Roughly like this, but then it doesn’t have enough room to breathe on the sides, so I’d say askew is still better if you can’t retake the photo

[steep talon]

Eh, I can. I just don't want to. I'm selling the camera. 🤣

[solemn mauve]

Haha fair I think it’ll easily sell with the slightly askew text

[peak tundra]

this is a pretty cool idea Lunar, so I want to play too :D! Throwing in one of my favorites from this year so far

(first take after looking at it again: I should clean up some of the scanning dust and spots )

[finite dune]

Can I haz feedback?

[solemn mauve]

I really like the composition, I do wish the contrast on the water was a little bit lower, I’d like some more detail. But I think it’s a great photo

[solemn mauve]

I like the colors, but I think the framing is a little too tight. The boat is beached, but I’d like to see just a bit more of that context

[solemn mauve]

I also don’t think the negative space to the top left of the photo works well for me, it kind of draws my eyes away from the boat

@peak tundra thank you for liking my silly idea 🙂

[peak tundra]

I see what you're saying, yap

[weak galleon]

Lets keep you busy, GO! And thanks in advance. 🥳

[solemn mauve]

1. I quite like it, I just wish the person on the right wasn’t half clipped off. Maybe it’s a little too saturated but I’m a fan of a desaturated look.
2. This one is stunning, honestly don’t know if I’d have much to say other than I’d like it to be a slightly brighter exposure, for some of the details around the lights, but that’s just nitpicking

[weak galleon]

Cheers, the saturation was the best compromise I could bring myself into conveying the scorching day with that much blue and cold tones. The other approaches I came up with looked really wonky. What comes to the person in the corner, I hear ya the original intention was not clip him that much, but the horizon happened Good reminder to leave yourself a little room for adjustments in the compositions

[finite dune]

Thank you 🙃

[solemn mauve]

That makes sense. At least you still did great with what you got

[solemn mauve]

Any time 🙂

[weak galleon]

Thanks. Next step is to blow them up on prints after my holidays ... eager to see how they will look on paper. (Well the opera house I did small test print already to figure out paper for it and it's gonna look sic) 😛

[solemn mauve]

My phone has been refusing to load this image since you sent it, */10, cannot give feedback 😅

[finite dune]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCa_penE5zk

[solemn mauve]

I’m 100% sure it’s just a large panorama that my phone can’t finish downloading before it errors out

[finite dune]

nope

it ain't loading for me either

https://tenor.com/view/fbi-calling-tom-gif-12699976

[solemn mauve]

I had to open original, it is a large pano

@heady escarp I can't say I like the amount of brightness in the right hand side, and overall I don't like the sky colors, but the rest is breathtaking. The amount of detail is phenomenal

[solemn mauve]

This is a very cute photo. I would've liked to see both cats in focus, but I like the foreground

[steep talon]

Thanks! I've been noticing nailing focus on my M645 is... challenging.

[solemn mauve]

Seems like a challenge for sure

[heady escarp]

Thank you for the feedback, I guess next time I try a pano with some bright portions of a frame then I’ll have to do some exposure bracketing

[solemn mauve]

No problem 🙂

[inland cradle]

I took these two photos then another one with my friend in it (He didnt want me to share any with him in it) but I would like some feedback on these 2 photos.

[viral owl]

You may like to know that i'm taking this with a Samsung S3 tablet.

(Taken with Samsung S3 tablet)

[solemn mauve]

On the first photo there’s nothing in focus, and the framing isn’t great. You want to try to line up straight lines in your photo with the edge of the photo.
On the second, it’s quite a warm photo, I’d try to adjust the white balance, or use a less harsh light

[solemn mauve]

These are fun photos, but the camera you’re using isn’t doing the best job at capturing these moments. Love the cute animals though

[solemn mauve]

I’ve tried to take photos like this before, it’s damn hard. Two pieces of advice: use a lens with a closer minimum focus distance, the spider isn’t in proper focus. Second, crop out the outside border, it’s misaligned and distracting

[sterile halo]

the spider is in focus but only like one or two of it's legs. I used a 50mm f1.8 lense, but an f2 or 2.5 would have been better I think

[solemn mauve]

The aperture and the focal length matter less here for a macro shot, and the minimum focusing distance of the lens. Which lens is it exactly?

[sterile halo]

the one from sony

min. focus distance is like 49mm or sth like that

[solemn mauve]

That’s like a foot and a half away

[sterile halo]

u mean between the spider and the camera?

[solemn mauve]

The closest you can be to the spider to focus on it is 17 inches

[sterile halo]

I went as close as possible

[solemn mauve]

If you’re too close your lens can’t focus on it

[sterile halo]

oh sorry
49cm (19.2 inches)

[solemn mauve]

Yeah, over a foot and a half

[sterile halo]

not sure I understand what you mean

[solemn mauve]

The lens can’t focus on objects that are closer to it than 19.2 inches

[sterile halo]

it's in focus tho

sadly not the spider's body but one of it's legs

which us unfortunate and a stupid mistake from me I guess

but yea uh

is this crop better?

[solemn mauve]

The leg doesn’t make the spider in focus

The subject is the spider

[sterile halo]

ye I know

[solemn mauve]

You want the whole thing in focus, or at least most of it

That crop helps a lot

[sterile halo]

yea I'm still getting used to that f1.8
It's very extreme and I didnt think too much about how much of the spider is in focus

cuz the lense I used before that was like max. f4

gotto watch out for that the next time I go out

[solemn mauve]

You can also just stop down the aperture to get more stuff in focus, going to f/4 on that lens will be sharper than f/1.8 anyway

[sterile halo]

yee that would've made it nicer for sure

[sterile halo]

this crop fine like that ??

[solemn mauve]

I’d do a slight rotate to straighten it, but it’s a lot better

[sterile halo]

oh yeah right ofcorse

well thanks a ton for your time :)

[solemn mauve]

Something like this maybe

No problem!

[sterile halo]

oh crop it even more huh?

hm yeah that works

but yea ok not gonna bother you any further

[solemn mauve]

Trust me you’re not a bother

[sterile halo]

thanks a lot
love your website/portfolio, gotto get one of those myself at some point
also love your photos

have a nice day

[solemn mauve]

I appreciate that a lot! Thank you! 🙂

Have a great day too!

[steep talon]

I'd love your feedback on this.
#🎭・people message

[worn wing]

Hey lunar , wonder what mediocre old you has got for feedback lol

[solemn mauve]

In my opening I did ask to limit this to three photos, so I’m only responding to the first three

1. I don’t like the vignetting, and it seems super low saturation, rather than true monochrome. Also you could crop in and straighten.
2. It’s a cool horse but it looks like it was taken on an early 2000s camcorder.
3. Nothing is in focus, there’s no subject, and it’s incorrectly exposed

[solemn mauve]

I think the shadows are too dark in the back, but I like the composition

[solemn mauve]

I think it’s a neat concept, but I don’t like the imbalance of the log, I’d rather see it on the left as well. The focus seems a little off too

[worn wing]

I see I see, thank you for the feedback! Noted ✓

[solemn mauve]

1: I think the image is a bit underexposed, and I’d like to see it straightened. Other than that it’s a neat dynamic shot (I’m not into racing so I don’t know how often you see something like that).
2: This one is properly exposed, but still needs to be straightened. Other than that, I just find it a tad boring, I’m not into cars, and it does nothing for me emotionally

[civic star]

alrighty thanks

what do you mean by straughtened

straightened*

[solemn mauve]

The horizon line isn’t level, give me one second I’ll give it a quick straighten and send back as an example

[civic star]

the corner on the first pic is a downhill corner

[civic star]

oh ok

[solemn mauve]

These are just rough on my phone, so not perfect

But in the first one, the fence in the background is heavily tilted, and the photo looks much better straightened

[civic star]

yh, thanks!

[solemn mauve]

The second one is easier, it’s just the DHL banner should be a straight line

Does that help?

[civic star]

sure does

thank you

[solemn mauve]

No problem!