"Critique my firearm picture" thread

**Stickman** · 01-24-19, 15:02

Originally Posted by Quest84

In general, color desaturation techniques with selective color tend to fall flat unless there is a solid B&W conversion along with it. Dark deep blacks are needed, otherwise it tends to look like a generic iPhone filter.

I only do similar conversions / post processing very infrequently as it is hard for me to get the right B&W look to go along with it.

**LOBO** · 01-25-19, 12:42

S&W 29-4 5" 1 of 500

**ChattanoogaPhil** · 01-25-19, 17:38

Since you guys are posting B&W....

**ChattanoogaPhil** · 01-26-19, 13:40

**Stickman** · 01-26-19, 15:43

Originally Posted by ChattanoogaPhil

Since you guys are posting B&W....

The glaring issue here is the curviture of the image as it goes off to the right. It looks like the pic was shot was a cell phone at wide angle. The light bleed off in refraction and distortion to the end weapon is unsat. Other than that, its not bad.

**Stickman** · 01-26-19, 15:44

Originally Posted by ChattanoogaPhil

The first things I see are a VERY grainy image (with no redeeming reason) and a white balance which looks off. Additionally the image crop is too tight.

**ChattanoogaPhil** · 01-27-19, 10:16

Thank you.

I'm sure these things are painfully obvious to you, but not so obvious to me until you point them out. Your critiques help me look at things a bit differently and hopefully improve. Thanks again for your time and patience.

**thopkins22** · 01-27-19, 13:42

Originally Posted by ChattanoogaPhil

Thank you.

I'm sure these things are painfully obvious to you, but not so obvious to me until you point them out. Your critiques help me look at things a bit differently and hopefully improve. Thanks again for your time and patience.

Here’s the thing, the light is nice and the flashlight and handgun are posed well...and I’m assuming it’s natural or a hot light so you can’t just turn it up. But if you had a tripod, you could lengthen the shutter speed so that you could drop the ISO down to kill the noise/grain. What did you shoot it at btw?

**thopkins22** · 01-27-19, 13:49

I dunno. Same event as the last one. Can’t wait to try it again with more ability to put lots of light exactly where I want it this year...and a better idea of where they are pointed at various parts of the course.

I don’t really love this one, but felt like if I’m going to be handing out criticism I should throw some of my shots out there...and this one was on my phone for some reason.

**Stickman** · 01-29-19, 19:19

Originally Posted by ChattanoogaPhil

Thank you.

I'm sure these things are painfully obvious to you, but not so obvious to me until you point them out. Your critiques help me look at things a bit differently and hopefully improve. Thanks again for your time and patience.

You are very welcome!