>>3176877I started when I posted the thread and ended when I posted the image, so about two hours.
>>3176840Color looks improved
>>3176884Yeah I experimented a lot with various blue tints. It's an image that works well with blue.
>Wish someone would teach me what colors and lighting make an image look good.Read books on photography/composition/painting. I always keep a book in the bathroom that's about visual communication in some way. Also I've pirated hundreds of books on photography/composition and love browsing photography critique boards like this one and
istockphoto.com's extremely anal board.
Painting is an art of adding things (the artist decides what he wants the viewer to see and paints it in) while photography is an art of omission (the photographer must decide what they want the viewer to look at and minimize/crop out/clone away/remove from the scene anything that distracts).
Basically I suggest studying as much regarding visual communication (mainly composition and color theory). Also look at photographs you find particularly inspiring and ask yourself what you feel while looking at them and why you think that is. Notice the path your eye takes while viewing the image and why you think that is. Especially advertisements are compositionally clean. Marketers know that people are more drawn to an image that "reads" easily so ads are highly polished in that regard. Just ask why why why why all the time.
series of tutorials on
Lynda.com. Also studying painting and drawing helps a ton. Here's a start for ya:
http://www.androidblues.com/visualperception.html http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/161809/camera-skills-a-guide-to-photographic-compositionhttp://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/161642/theory-breaking-the-ruleshttp://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/161595/color-theory 