I hope this helps me become a digital artist.






 

needs moar lootie

to bad the sight is not the same color as the gun

I voted YAY

Yea I am keeping it black in case I want to sell in future.

 

 

Edited for sand in vag
Meet Lootie. The loveable scamp from the Hurricane Katrina video that looted a whole bin of Heiniken and is forever stamped in the memory and on the posts of Arfcom

Enjoy.

WTF.

 

You asked who lootie was. I explained. quit crying, Ill get rid of the big bad widdle pic.

A couple things I would do differently:

1. Rotate 90* clockwise.  I don't like it when text runs the wrong direction in a picture.
2. Decide what the "draw" is going to be.  It is a technically precise picture, but the composition draws me to the text on the mag well, which is then disorienting. Use depth of field to highlight if there is something specific you want to show.

Like I said - technically precise it is (good lighting, sharp focus), but you are zoomed in enough to confuse what you want the viewer to focus on.

-shooter

This covers what I was going to say and probably says it better.

Thanks I wanted the viewer to focus on the whole thing

 

The two things that stand out are the black optic and your watermark. Try again.

If you're trying to sell the optic, turn the cap so that the logo is readable.

What exactly are you going for here, a picture of a gun or an abstract artsy picture of a gun?  It seems to me that you split the difference and hit right in between both.  

I think you should show us the rifle, or show us something that suggests rifle.  Hmmm, I don't know if I'm conveying what I mean exactly.

Artsy abstract sounds right.

 

See THIS for composition tips.  There are a lot of really good pictures there, as well as tips/tricks that are illustrated using the pictures as examples.

A few examples of different things you could do with that picture in post processing:
1. Rotate and crop some to make the optic stand-out, like a product photo.
2. Move the watermark into a corner, so it doesn't draw your eye to it (maybe even make it more translucent)
3. Rotate and crop a little to emphasize the really cool coloring of the rifle.
4. Consider cropping to a non-traditional aspect ratio - maybe making it a square shot, or zoom in enough to use a panarama-like shot of the rifle, and lose some of the background.

A few things you could have done differently in composition:
1. Zoom out more to use the strong lines of the rifle.  The way you are zoomed in, the more confused lines of the receiver have dominated.
2. Don't shoot straight down on the rifle - use a diagonal to create some depth to the picture.
3. Create more distance between the rifle and the background.

Just some random thoughts...

-shooter

I voted no, and here is why:
The photo has no action, and does not tell a story. It is just another photo of a rifle. Anyone can take a static photo of an inanimate object, and there are already a hundred thousand such pics out there on the internet. Not to be harsh, but this photo does nothing for me. I want to see something happening in the photo. I want to see a picture of the rifle in the hands of a grizzled veteran, zoomed to show just his hands and the rifle, showing a soldier's chapped, weather-beaten hands clutching his trusted, well-used weapon. Or maybe you were hiking with your rifle, and it started raining, and the photo has rain streaking down and you're holding it at low-ready out in front of your body as you trudge through a calf-deep puddle in a grassy field out in some wild, remote, unidentifiable place in the middle of nowhere. Or, you're prone partially behind a tumbleweed or desert shrub, waiting for a critter to come by, and the rifle is out in front of you, the picture being taken with the camera at ground level and up close, to make the dusty old rifle the center of the focus of the image. A good photo can tell a story or produce some kind of emotional response. I'm not worried about image rotation or the color of your optic matching the rifle or anything like that. I would stop using watermarks, also. When you start making creative, interesting photos, they will speak for themselves.

Thanks for the reason, but hows to quality?

 

I like it but couple thoughts I have:

1. Don't shoot straight on like that. Angle at least a little.
2. I don't like the white cement background. Try something different. Maybe grass or a wood deck. Something with more contrast to the gun.
3. Simplify your photos. In this case the black Aimpoint stands out too much and it isn't the subject of the photo IMO. Take it off and just flip up the BUIS.

ETA: I didn't read before replying so someone might have mentioned these already.

To me, the quality of an image isn't about image sharpness, it's about creativity. And if a photo isn't creative, it's not a good photo. I'm just a beginner also, so maybe I need to practice what I preach. Take this example. First is my amateurish attempt at taking a photo.
http://postimg.org/image/7zz53fpqp/

The location is really interesting, but I did a poor job of taking a photo there. It's not clear what I want the viewer to focus on. There isn't one clear main subject or event going on in the picture.


Now look at a photo taken by a professional in the same exact location, which is Asakusa temple in Japan.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yuta35/6240807686/
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Look at the eyes! What a creative photo that is. It's intentionally blurry. And, the cage around the thunder god even adds to the image instead of taking away from it. It looks like a caged beast waiting to break out. It looks like something is happening in the photo. It isn't just a static photo of an inanimate object. It comes alive. The cage was a hindrance in my photo, but Yuta35 turned it into part of her photo. She actually used it as an advantage. All we know about the camera and lens she used is that it was set at 90mm and f2.8. Sharpness doesn't matter when you're thinking outside the box like in this picture. My photo looks so ordinary and dull compared to Yuta35's picture. I was in an interesting location, but I did not make full use of that. I am learning to be more creative.

Interesting thanks for the info and yea you did a poor job on that photo.

The texture actually makes up for alot.  It's also slightly canted to the right.  If the whole shebang were straight and the gun moved left a little it would be about as good as it could get.  You can get away with a couple of these, but the interest factor drops off quickly.  There are three ways to make a good photo, human interest, technical proficiency and unique landscapes/locations and those overlap with each other in the middle.  I can go to and exotic location and take a crappy iPhone photo of a landscape that looks cool and no one will care, a location rarely speaks for itself; likewise, I can go find the most interesting event in the world and make part of my way just by being there, but without technical proficiency, I'm just another cell-phone camera in the crowd; technical proficiency alone, when it needs to stand on it's own, is usually difficult and expensive and even then of limited interest - even if I spent $30,000 lighting your gun and shot it with a Hasselblad H5D-50 it's still just a picture of a gun.  Good photographers do one of two things, they are story tellers or adventurers and the technical proficiency is just a means to an end.  Not to bash you, but just some thoughts.

I would darken the highlights/background a little.  The background being bright kinda hurts my eyes. other than that it's great

Get over it. Instead of replying to this thread, you should be rethinking and reshooting this shot. It's no different than the tens of thousands of other nondescript AR shots out there...

Your watermark placement kills it. It's the first thing my eyes get drawn to. Second is the unfitting red dot.

Put it at a 90 degree angle and take the picture from a few feet away to give it some depth.

Voted no.

Cool gun. Nice clarity and sharpness of the photo. Interesting colors.

Crap composition, sorry.

Watermark sucks, too.

why should i like this image any more than 1000 other images of black rifles?