E-10 Photo gallery, opinions wanted

After a year of shooting with my E-10, (and lurking on this forum) I've posted my pictures to my online photo gallery. I'd welcome any constructive criticism on my pictures, please check them out if you have a moment.

http://www.evillord.org/gallery

Thanks,

Dave

Welcome fellow NorthWesterner (Oregonian?). You have a good start but areas for improvement could be:

Light:

Good photography is all about good light on your subject. Many of your pics do not use the light to exemplify your subject.

Composition:

This takes time, patience, and even some research - especially for landscape photography which you seem to do mostly.

Post processing/Color correction:

I see a lot of odd colors and excessive noise in some of your pictures on my color calibrated monitor. Try using some of the color tutorials on the web to get a better understanding of these issues.

Paul

frompkin said:

After a year of shooting with my E-10, (and lurking on this forum)
I've posted my pictures to my online photo gallery. I'd welcome any
constructive criticism on my pictures, please check them out if you
have a moment.

http://www.evillord.org/gallery

Thanks,

Dave

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Beth wrote:

I think you've already gotten some good advice, but I have questions about Columbia Gorge. I came through there on the Amtrak train a year ago last summer. All I saw was dry land and brown dirt--not what I expected! Where on the Columbia do you find such verdant landscape? Obviously NOT on the Amtrak route!!

PDM said:

Light:
Good photography is all about good light on your subject. Many of
your pics do not use the light to exemplify your subject.

Composition:
This takes time, patience, and even some research - especially for
landscape photography which you seem to do mostly.

Post processing/Color correction:
I see a lot of odd colors and excessive noise in some of your
pictures on my color calibrated monitor. Try using some of the
color tutorials on the web to get a better understanding of these
issues.

Paul

frompkin said:

After a year of shooting with my E-10, (and lurking on this forum)
I've posted my pictures to my online photo gallery. I'd welcome any
constructive criticism on my pictures, please check them out if you
have a moment.

http://www.evillord.org/gallery

Thanks,

Dave

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Olympus E-10, TCON, MCON, WCON and Fl-40
Gallery: http://www.pbase.com/galleries/cokids

If you have the opportunity, drive through the gorge. The 'old' highway has a senic loop on the west end of the gorge, which has approx. 4-5 waterfalls and some of the most amazing scenery available in oregon. The original highway that went through the gorge (one of the first paved roads in oregon) was specificly designed to show off the natural beauty that you can find there.

As you get farther east, you'll see nothing but dry, brown land.

Dave

Beth said:

Beth wrote:

I think you've already gotten some good advice, but I have
questions about Columbia Gorge. I came through there on the Amtrak
train a year ago last summer. All I saw was dry land and brown
dirt--not what I expected! Where on the Columbia do you find such
verdant landscape? Obviously NOT on the Amtrak route!!

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PDM said:

Welcome fellow NorthWesterner (Oregonian?). You have a good start
but areas for improvement could be:

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Yes, Portland Oregon in fact.

PDM said:

Light:
Good photography is all about good light on your subject. Many of
your pics do not use the light to exemplify your subject.

Composition:
This takes time, patience, and even some research - especially for
landscape photography which you seem to do mostly.

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This is something I know is a weakness. I've been working on trying to get this right. I appreciate the feedback.

PDM said:

Post processing/Color correction:
I see a lot of odd colors and excessive noise in some of your
pictures on my color calibrated monitor. Try using some of the
color tutorials on the web to get a better understanding of these
issues.

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Some of the older pictures (i.e. the Oregon Rally shots) were taken with a completely different camera. I should have specified. Also, I've noticed that there is something very odd about the light in the Japanese Garden, almost all of the pictures that I take there have a blue tinge to them.

I will check into color calibrating my monitor better however. Thanks!

Dave

PDM said:

frompkin said:

After a year of shooting with my E-10, (and lurking on this forum)
I've posted my pictures to my online photo gallery. I'd welcome any
constructive criticism on my pictures, please check them out if you
have a moment.

http://www.evillord.org/gallery

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Beth, I love you but you could not be more wrong (warning - this is Velvia shot with my very sharp Minolta 50/2.8 macro):



I hate to say it, but film still rules!
Paul

Beth said:

PDM said:

Light:
Good photography is all about good light on your subject. Many of
your pics do not use the light to exemplify your subject.

Composition:
This takes time, patience, and even some research - especially for
landscape photography which you seem to do mostly.

Post processing/Color correction:
I see a lot of odd colors and excessive noise in some of your
pictures on my color calibrated monitor. Try using some of the
color tutorials on the web to get a better understanding of these
issues.

Paul

frompkin said:

After a year of shooting with my E-10, (and lurking on this forum)
I've posted my pictures to my online photo gallery. I'd welcome any
constructive criticism on my pictures, please check them out if you
have a moment.

http://www.evillord.org/gallery

Thanks,

Dave

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--
Olympus E-10, TCON, MCON, WCON and Fl-40
Gallery: http://www.pbase.com/galleries/cokids

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Sweeet!

This guy helped me with completing my E-20 system. Just one more lens to go... (wcon).

Anyway, there's some good pics in there. Every once in awhile he nails it and makes the postcard/poster pic.

frompkin said:

After a year of shooting with my E-10, (and lurking on this forum)
I've posted my pictures to my online photo gallery. I'd welcome any
constructive criticism on my pictures, please check them out if you
have a moment.

http://www.evillord.org/gallery

Thanks,

Dave

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If a picture paints a 1,000 words, how come mine only make 3?

frompkin said:

If you have the opportunity, drive through the gorge. The 'old'
highway has a senic loop on the west end of the gorge, which has
approx. 4-5 waterfalls and some of the most amazing scenery
available in oregon. The original highway that went through the
gorge (one of the first paved roads in oregon) was specificly
designed to show off the natural beauty that you can find there.

As you get farther east, you'll see nothing but dry, brown land.

Dave

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I won't ruin it by showing you a pic, but there's this one place that is PURRFECT for a pano on that scenic drive. Just don't miss it. You'll see a kind of medieval, round, thick, castle tower on the river side of the road. It's pretty far down the road and once you know what you're looking for, you can't miss it.

Just over on the East side, there is a replica of StoneHenge. It gets windy there a lot, but that's part of the fun. There are some good views from that "brown" spot

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If a picture paints a 1,000 words, how come mine only make 3?

Zephalephelah said:

I won't ruin it by showing you a pic, but there's this one place
that is PURRFECT for a pano on that scenic drive. Just don't miss
it. You'll see a kind of medieval, round, thick, castle tower on
the river side of the road. It's pretty far down the road and once
you know what you're looking for, you can't miss it.

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Are you talking about Crown Point? If not, please give me some more details.

Zephalephelah said:

Just over on the East side, there is a replica of StoneHenge. It
gets windy there a lot, but that's part of the fun. There are some
good views from that "brown" spot

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East side? I didn't know the Gorge had one. Never heard of a StoneHenge replica. Where is it?

Paul

PDM said:

Zephalephelah said:

I won't ruin it by showing you a pic, but there's this one place
that is PURRFECT for a pano on that scenic drive. Just don't miss
it. You'll see a kind of medieval, round, thick, castle tower on
the river side of the road. It's pretty far down the road and once
you know what you're looking for, you can't miss it.

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Are you talking about Crown Point? If not, please give me some more
details.

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Yes I believe that is what it is called. You can see a good panoramic up and down the river from a good height.

PDM said:

PDM said:

Just over on the East side, there is a replica of StoneHenge. It
gets windy there a lot, but that's part of the fun. There are some
good views from that "brown" spot

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East side? I didn't know the Gorge had one. Never heard of a
StoneHenge replica. Where is it?

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Oh, I made a mistake. My poor memory. It is on the North side, in Washington. 117 miles East of Portland. You take 94 East to 14 North. You should see signs as soon as you are over the river.

PDM said:

Paul

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If a picture paints a 1,000 words, how come mine only make 3?