The Realistic Photo Thread

[Shinzah]

Found this hanging around my computer:




I hope the autoscale on my pictures doesn't make them too big ;.;

 

[eSZee]

 

[ryan_custard13]

Edited in paint

 

[Danny]

The Austrian flag on the Nurb' is very distracting...

Nice job. 👍

 

[bookem058]

my 2nd humble attempt at this thread











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[Texas_Warhead51]

I hope I am getting better at this, here goes nothing ><

Hope you guys enjoy! Thoughts?

 

[wonderpill]

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[wonderpill]

Not sure if this is the best example of a realistic photo... some tips would be nice

The only thing I can Suggest is a Mild Focal blur... just make sure your focusing on the car... Aside from that, Look at other people Photo's and Pick them apart... look at them like you are trying to find Waldo... anything you don't like in the picture, remember to avoid... eventually, you will see something come at you that looks amazing... Don't hesitate to ask the photographer if it was a fluke, or if they meant to do it.

Also find your own style... Not everyone is good at having the self control to not use full Zoom, some people like to add a sense of speed to all their pictures, and some people just know when to click... and that can't be taught, only mimed... It all comes down to you wanting to get better.

There are quite a few amazing Photographers here... I know because I recognize their names... most of them already have a gallery on the main page... they just use theirs more than I do.

 

[Shinzah]

I will Give Shinzah some credit for his "IN YOUR FACE" picture... it captures the moment... Its dark and rainy in Japan streetlights reflect off of the road, I can tell exactly which model of Skyline he is driving... But it is not "Realistic" It in no way tricks me into thinking that the picture, sans the GT watermark, could ever be real.

In your opinion. And what I have to say about those, will clearly violate the AUP. But I'm pretty sure you already know what they're like, and how everyone has one.

You asked for credentials, and when I found that the links are broken, I decided to back my self up with words.

I don't remember anyone asking for credentials. One person asked you to post some of your work, to which you posted a whole lot of words, and no pictures at all. Infact, your ONLY contribution is some nascar pictures, which as stated by someone else, could be argued as verily "Unrealistic"

I never said that the photo's that people were taking were garbage, just NOT REALISTIC...

Realism is subjective. Who are you to be the judge? You're not the OP. You're not a Mod. You, who takes pictures of cars in videogames and not even this particular videogame it seems like, since you lorded a microsoft award for something most of us either don't care about, or don't even heard about.

You could be the greatest photographer in the world. But as soon as you come to a thread, and begin judging other peoples work in an artform thats purely and entirely subjective, you won't win and you come off as someone with very curved back and a very stinky face.

This is the REALISTIC photo thread, not the Artistic, or AwEz0m3 P1X thread... don't get it twisted... if you want criticism, post it in the correct forum, and you will get all the praise you want, but don't expect people to buy a cow if all they want is bacon.

Read above. Three times. Read OP's post. Three times. Read the AUP. Three times. And then consider posting again.




Sorry for the wall of text fellow Realistic Photo Thread Patrons. Every reply I have will be accompanied by a picture to keep on the topic and not distract from the thread with mindless banter. Perhaps Wonderpill will do the same.

 

[wonderpill]

Not Sure These are Realistic Enough to keep you happy, but here.

Red Bull Hangar-7 by Apex 0mega, on Flickr


Ahrweiler Street by Apex 0mega, on Flickr


Superspeedway - Daytona by Apex 0mega, on Flickr
^This one is more of What Should be in an Artistic Photo Thread^

 

[Sephy]

Hope you guys enjoy! Thoughts?

How'd you get that shot? I've tried backing far away and moving the camera as far up as possible but it won't go that high. Awesome shot by the way!!

 

[OLDSKOOLACURA]

I'm very proud of this one

 

[Texas_Warhead51]

How'd you get that shot? I've tried backing far away and moving the camera as far up as possible but it won't go that high. Awesome shot by the way!!

when the car is on that bridge, there is a fixed camera view that comes up and pretty far away. and thanks!

 

[wonderpill]

Tsukuba Circuit by Apex 0mega, on Flickr


Tsukuba Circuit_1 by Apex 0mega, on Flickr

 

[wonderpill]

More of these please 👍

 

[Weapon_]

My effort:

 

[Shinzah]

^^ Sweet Transcammer ^^

Did you photochop or is that a phototravel?

 

[Weapon_]

Just phototravel

 

[Shinzah]

Very good shot 👍

 

[wonderpill]

Ahrweiler Street by Apex 0mega, on Flickr
So what... I erase color from REAL pictures all the time

 

[Shinzah]

I know you have been a member here for at least 10 days now, and that you are the BEST photographer GT5 has to offer... but my Recommendation to you is to do a color check on your monitor... perhaps you have your whiteness setting set to Cool, or Warm... instead of clear.

Oh my. I was just being helpfull. After all I won 328432842 awards for photography and people pm me for tips!

You could continue to try my patience... or you could open the picture and look at it... and discover what you are doing wrong.

You backed up this statement with more false colour spam from your "collection of wonderpills ultra realism" I guess.

The fact that your OLDER picture, that was Just "LAYING" around on your computer, is thousands of times better than your newer stuff, tells me one of two things...

In your opinion. Again. By the way, did you read the OP's rules on constructive, positive, criticism, three times? I think someone didn't do their hooomewwoorrrk.

Either you are a fluke, and just happened to land a decent photo... or that you have no quality control.

I'm taking pictures on a videogame pal. Seriously. Do I *NEED* quality control?

I'm not going to lie... That Camaro Picture should never have been saved on your PS3, never been booted to your XMB, never been copied to a thumbdrive, never been uploaded to the internet, and definitely NEVER used to end an argument about photography, with someone that is out of your league.

You're not out of my league, all your doing is pishing about on a videogame forum with your posts on how godly you are. In a realism thread. With false colours.

I'm not going to lie. Those nascar False colours and the RX7 false colours and the Camaro False colours, should never have been posted here.

Like I said, The Corvette Picture I am Jealous of... its a GREAT picture, but I wonder if someone with your attitude deserves to take pictures like that, and after seeing what you have produced lately, I doubt it is even yours.

You're welcome to check my HD for your own, and come over and take my chrome AM Corvette 60 for a test drive, if you wish.

Ahrweiler Street by Apex 0mega, on Flickr
So what... I erase color from REAL pictures all the time

Which um. Unreals them. Good day.

 

[wonderpill]

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[Shinzah]

My good god. You are a piece of work.

Goodbye Shinzah... Its been fun playing with you... but you are much better at this than me.

Better at what?

I don my hat to your effortless photography skills... because its nowhere near taking photography in the real world, because if you said it, it must be true.

I AM NOT A PHOTOGRAPHER. NOT IN THE *REAL* WORLD. I'M A FRIKKEN MECHANIC AND A DESK JOCKEY. OKAY?

Reality expands much further than your life... There are mountains that you have never seen, cars you have never heard of, and people that you will never meet.

Sure is. The world is great.

Chances are one of them has been photographed... that doesn't mean they are not real, just because you have never seen them.

Chances are until the laws of visual harmonics change, I won't see Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon side by side on a greyscale Daytona, either.

So if you want to take horrible pictures and make them HUGE, and prance around telling everyone that they are wrong, you have the right.

You're the one saying crap like people are wrong, Judging them on an art form you can't even perfect yourself. Lording stuff that people here probably don't care about over them and offering tips randomly that nobody, ever, asked for. All while posting artistic false colours on a realism photo thread and trying to back your argument that its realistic.

I've never judged you for more then you are. I never even judged your photos, except the obvious, and wrongly posted false colours that you hold so dear. Which don't belong here. And you already complained about previously. Before posting some of your own.

My advice to you is to keep taking pictures, and in a few days take a look at them again, and ask yourself... is this picture REALLY good, or was I just caught up in the moment.

I don't have time to digress on every videogame screenshot I take. I'm sorry.\

If you can go back, months from now and honestly tell yourself that its a great picture... then you either took a good picture, or you are not getting better.

I have no desire to get better. I have a desire to share pictures I find as realistic and support and comment, postively, on other peoples work. Not tell them how to view reality and then post images contrary.

If you're leaving this thread, I'm sorry to see you go. But to be honest with you, I'll be happy to get the words out of the way and get back to posting pictures I think are decent and represent "Realism" as I see it. Not as you do.

 

[EsPeHil85]

Sinzah hasn't realised what you mean with realistic pictures.

Sinzah hasn't apparently watched the photography scene very long. Because otherwise he would know that filters were used already in black and white film era.

Most of the pictures posted here are focused somewhere else than what I presume the subject is. The depth of field is totally out there. I agree that there should be constructive critisism but 70% of the users never listen.

I work as a photographer.

 

[Shinzah]

Sinzah hasn't realised what you mean with realistic pictures.

Reality is STILL subjective. No matter how you word it.

Sinzah hasn't apparently watched the photography scene very long. Because otherwise he would know that filters were used already in black and white film era.

Realism =/= Filters/Film

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I work as a photographer.

Hey, so does Wonderpill. Have you met him?

 

[wonderpill]

San Gimignano - Town Square_1 by Apex 0mega, on Flickr

 

[Blade2322]

tell me what you think

 

[wonderpill]

GT Logo is the only give away, but I was looking for it... Amazing work!!!

 

[EsPeHil85]

Also I would like to add that in my humble opinion realism isn't subjective. Artistic style is another matter. There's a lot of good photos in this thread that would qualify as art. But this is "Realistic photos" not artistic...

I'm more of a artistic type. Apex on the otherhand has always nailed the realistic and I've learned a lot from him in that matter.

 

[Rambo512]

A couple more of mine, all critiques welcome:


Tokyo R246 (3) by Rambo_512, on Flickr


Special Stage Route 5 by Rambo_512, on Flickr


Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca by Rambo_512, on Flickr


High Speed Ring (2) by Rambo_512, on Flickr


Autumn Ring by Rambo_512, on Flickr