Aotearoa_Brad Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Awesome! you decided to review some equipment on the MGS Forum. We are not looking for everything to look the same, show your personality, tell a story! What we are looking for is quality and honesty in your review. We do, however, want to provide some tips should you be looking for some guidance. Forum Member Review Tips: We love looking at pictures - augment your review with them! All pictures should be 750 - 800 pixels wide. This is to make sure the reviews load quickly for anyone reading them. Please take photos and/or video in landscape orientation - this fits the screen better and ensures that there is not unnecessary whitespace. Tell a story! We want to be entertained as well as enlightened If you love the product and how it is performing, say so. If it don't meet your expectations say that too. Feel free to contact one of the Forum Directors if you need help resizing your pictures, photo editing (enhancing the image, cropping, etc), or just have questions There are some great examples of member reviews on the forum in case you need ideas, but ultimately we want to hear how the equipment you shelled out hard-earned cash for is working, and whether you'd be happy recommending it to a friend. Some tips for taking pictures: Natural light is always preferable to artificial light. If you're taking a picture inside, use the light coming from a window. In general night pictures aren't great unless you have a good camera and light setup. The best time to take pictures is an hour or so after sunrise or before sun set, right when the sky becomes a bit golden. A slightly cloudy day is ideal, but you can't really control that. Overcast conditions are the worst. Cell phone cameras are OK, but if you have a good digital camera, you should use that. Picture composition tips: You can use a flash to counterbalance sunlight. For example, if the sun is behind your subject, usually that'll make everything dark. If the sun is behind your subject and you use a flash, then the subject is well lit still and you have a lot of light in your picture. If your camera supports HDR photos or multiple exposure shots. HDR photos are a combination of 1-2 underexposed, 1 normal, and 1-2 overexposed shots. The software puts them all together. If you camera can't do HDR, but can do multiple exposure, then there's plenty of software out there to combine the shots. If you have a zoom lens, you can play around with depth of field by taking shots of the same subject all the way zoomed in or all the way zoomed out. If you can change the aperture of the lens, you can play with the depth of focus and light. A very open aperture (f1.4-f2.8) needs little light, but the depth of focus is very shallow. A closed aperture (f7+) needs a lot of light and has a much deeper depth of focus. ISO is the quality of the image. The lower the ISO, the better the quality, but requires more light. Picture editing tips: Use www.picmonkey.com , www.photoeditor.polarr.co , the snapseed app on iOS/Android or any number of other software options to edit your pictures. A lot of times, simply pushing "Auto Adjust", or playing with some of the preset filters will make your picture(s) look a lot nicer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPY VIP The Dansome Posted April 9, 2015 SPY VIP Share Posted April 9, 2015 Nice Yo #JustPlayBetter Follow @GolfSpyMBP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfSpy Barbajo Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Want to bump this --- for all the new members out there, if you have something in your bag you'd like to review. Some excellent tips here!! What's in the bag: Driver: TSR3; DynaPWR Carbon FW Wood: DynaPWR 3-wood; TSR 2+ Hybrids: PXG Gen4 18-degree Utility Irons: ZX MkII 20* Irons:; 699/699 Pro V2 Combo; D9 Forged; MT86 (coming soon!); VIP 1025 V-Foil MB/CB; Wedges: RTX6 Zipcore Putter: HB Soft Milled 10.5; Newport Special Select; Willamette, BB8; 8802; MATI Monto Ball: Tour B RXS; Z-STAR Diamond; Triad Stat Tracker/GPS Watch: Follow @golfspybarbajo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawgDaddy Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Just read through the tips, thanks for the great thoughts. Driver - Rogue ST Max Woods - Rogue ST Max 3, 5 & 7 Woods Irons - Rogue ST Max Wedges - Zipcore RTX 6 50° CBX2 54* & 58* Putter - Evnroll ER2 Rangefinder - NX-10 Slope Ball - Vice Pro Tour Drip Bag - Xtreme Cart 7.0 Bag Heather/Red/White Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shankster Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Good stuff. Snapseed is another good photo editor. Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Theoo Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 FYI picmonkey charges now Driver: Epic 10.5 set to 9.5 w/ Tour AD-DI 44.5 FW: F6 baffler set at 16º Hybrid: NONEIrons: 3i 2014 TP CB 4-PW 2011 TP MC w/ TT S400 Wedges: 52º 56º 60 º w/ KBS C-Taper XS Soft-stepped Putter: Sigma G Tyne 34 inches Gold dot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnergun Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Thanks for the tips! Getting ready to do my first review here and want to try and nail it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfSpy Barbajo Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Thanks for the tips! Getting ready to do my first review here and want to try and nail it! Here's living proof that new members do indeed have the chance to be selected IF they do the simple things, like participate, have a profile pic, etc. Go get 'em schnergun!!! What's in the bag: Driver: TSR3; DynaPWR Carbon FW Wood: DynaPWR 3-wood; TSR 2+ Hybrids: PXG Gen4 18-degree Utility Irons: ZX MkII 20* Irons:; 699/699 Pro V2 Combo; D9 Forged; MT86 (coming soon!); VIP 1025 V-Foil MB/CB; Wedges: RTX6 Zipcore Putter: HB Soft Milled 10.5; Newport Special Select; Willamette, BB8; 8802; MATI Monto Ball: Tour B RXS; Z-STAR Diamond; Triad Stat Tracker/GPS Watch: Follow @golfspybarbajo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnergun Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Here's living proof that new members do indeed have the chance to be selected IF they do the simple things, like participate, have a profile pic, etc. Go get 'em schnergun!!! thanks! Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aotearoa_Brad Posted April 12, 2017 Author Share Posted April 12, 2017 looks like this could do with a little update! I'll add snapseed to the photo editor piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSauer Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 I'll add as well. For those of you who photograph with iPhones, iOS 10 lets you shoot RAW photos, just as long you're using an app that supports it. Capturing photos in RAW allows you to do a better job at post processing pictures. There are quite a few apps out now that let you do this, but some of the well known ones include VSCO and Lightroom. Shooting in RAW and pairing it with a good photo editing app such as Snapseed, VSCO, Lightroom, and Afterlight can create great photos. Driver: Aerojet 9* | Hzrdus Black Gen 4 Fairway: G410 3W 13* | Alta CB 65 Hybrid: TS2 18* | Tensei AV Blue 70 S Hybrid: iCrossover 20* | Kai'li White 80 Irons: P790 5-PW | DG S300 Wedges: Vokey SM9 | 52, 56, 60 | DG S200 Putter: Link.1 | Accra x LAB --- LAB Golf Link.1 Review --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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