"Critique my firearm picture" thread

[thopkins22]

It looks phenomenal on my iPad, let me get to the large monitors and I’ll give better feedback.

Thanks! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. As I think about it, part of the issue may well be that I was relying on the strobes to freeze action, and when I moved to have him backlit, that same light wasn’t quite freezing it as much I want...and I’m pretending that it’s noise instead of a teeny bit of motion blur for my own ego.


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[gaijin]

[thopkins22]

It’s very nice. My criticism is that it’s a little hot on the deflector, which draws my eye to a less interesting part of the firearm. I’d like to see it burned back a little there. But a very nice and well executed high key photo with nice shadows and so forth. My gripe is extremely minor...and keep in mind that I definitely can’t do better...I’ve never done any product photography.

[daddyusmaximus]

Thank you for this thread. I'm one of the non skilled photo takers who only has a cell phone (iPhone 7+) and a desire to share photos of a gun or knife whenever the subject comes up in a thread. I need to learn to come up with the good ideas of how to frame the shots, and how to work the limited settings on the cell phone camera. I took this for the AR pistol thread. The object is just to share what you have as an AR pistol. I did that. You can see the gun, and the parts on it, but it's not an interesting shot. As I have read in this thread, I fell victim to the "gun on the floor" mentality trying to get the whole thing in the shot.



I have done some better shots with knives, but they are smaller...

[Quest84]

This was an awesome thread, sad to see that it died

[Onyx Z]

Pulled out the DSLR and tripod today and this happened:

Glock 19 by Ryan T, on Flickr

[Stickman]

Looks like you desaturated the image.... which I can’t say as overly works for me. It is a nice and clean pic though, which is better than most pics.

Watch the safety position, that is a big deal to some poeple, though I’m not really one of them.

[Stickman]

Thank you for this thread. I'm one of the non skilled photo takers who only has a cell phone (iPhone 7+) and a desire to share photos of a gun or knife whenever the subject comes up in a thread. I need to learn to come up with the good ideas of how to frame the shots, and how to work the limited settings on the cell phone camera. I took this for the AR pistol thread. The object is just to share what you have as an AR pistol. I did that. You can see the gun, and the parts on it, but it's not an interesting shot. As I have read in this thread, I fell victim to the "gun on the floor" mentality trying to get the whole thing in the shot.



I have done some better shots with knives, but they are smaller...

This isn’t bad at all, like you have already commented, the biggest sin here is the generic wooden floor.

[Stickman]

Pulled out the DSLR and tripod today and this happened:

Glock 19 by Ryan T, on Flickr

You have a few things going on here, but the dark front and rear of the slide are creating big issues here I can’t get past. I also think a plain piece of printer paper would have worked better than a paper towel.

[Quest84]