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Sep 3, 2011 20:52:34   #
lindann
 
I am the one that wants to learn to photograph my bed and breakfast. I got my camera 24 hours ago. I am here to learn so any advice you can give I would love.







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Sep 4, 2011 06:53:07   #
Sugarpenny Loc: Mid Michigan
 
lindann wrote:
I am the one that wants to learn to photograph my bed and breakfast. I got my camera 24 hours ago. I am here to learn so any advice you can give I would love.


I think you need a little bit more staging for your photos if you are going to use them in a brochure...The table with the teapot could have used a little colorful bouquet or maybe made it black and white photo, the bed I would have maybe put a colorful afghan or flowers on the bedside table, and if the pump in the last picture works, I'd put an old wooden pail in front of it, if it doesn't work, set a pail with plants and flowers in front of it with 2 white chairs off to the side under the tree for the photo. Make it look a little more inviting.

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Sep 4, 2011 08:18:33   #
lindann
 
Thank you so much. I really know much more about staging but I was so excited about the camera I just opened the box and threw these together. I will redo them of course and I will take your suggestions. :)

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Sep 4, 2011 08:37:31   #
dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida
 
My ol' Friend Sugarpenny is right and is crisp of mind. In any photo, ad or not, what are you trying to show me? THEME, IMPACT, MESSAGE (WHAT YOU WANT THE VIEWER TO SEE.)

In photo 1 follows Sug's directions. But using the elements that are in your stage: close down drapery to just include box & peak of the neighbors house, perhaps vague them with shear. The reflection of the greenery looks intriguing. Move the cup and pot. Put some tea in the cup, a spoon, s beautiful pastry. In other words, you have a table as a stage. Before taking the first photo, sit and look and close your eyes to move elements and make many possible photos in your mind. Then when doing the actual photography take a range of exposures, different times of the day. Make a contact sheet. If you do not have power editing software get gimp freeware. There is a Contact Sheet free plugin for gimp perhaps for any PS look alike.
http://registry.gimp.org/node/120
So, shoot, shoot, shoot. Critique as tho someone elses.

Bed ??? Hay, check out ads by the big guys, boot strap on their research dollars.

#3 (Refer to Mushroom Forum in uglyhedgehog) Which one of these elements am I to look at?? Narrow down the field. Add elements as Sug suggested. Get closer to THE element I am to focus on. Take a lot of shots lots of angle, bracket exposures. Look at photo pages on the net. Get a friend to discuss photos with, go on shoots with the friend. Join a camera club. Enjoy your new art form and forum. Don d/p

PS: Look at Sug's photo, not a jail mug shot that most people take of friends. This photo has an attractive woman and it more important to an aspiring photographer, it has composition, angle, highlights lighting, vignetting. This photo is a series of lessons in one look.

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Sep 4, 2011 09:06:27   #
Rich Loc: Titusville, Fl
 
I really liked the photos, the top one has some really solid pastels in it and it looks very good to me. The photo of the bed is just a little too tight for me, seeing the whole bed might have been better. The photo of the well, here is where the rules of thirds might be broken. The well is in the left side and the right side has that tree which does not add to the photo, at least for me. If this is your first day, you will be a cut above the rest.

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Sep 4, 2011 09:07:44   #
Sugarpenny Loc: Mid Michigan
 
dpullum wrote:
My ol' Friend Sugarpenny is right and is crisp of mind. In any photo, ad or not, what are you trying to show me? THEME, IMPACT, MESSAGE (WHAT YOU WANT THE VIEWER TO SEE.)

In photo 1 follows Sug's directions. But using the elements that are in your stage: close down drapery to just include box & peak of the neighbors house, perhaps vague them with shear. The reflection of the greenery looks intriguing. Move the cup and pot. Put some tea in the cup, a spoon, s beautiful pastry. In other words, you have a table as a stage. Before taking the first photo, sit and look and close your eyes to move elements and make many possible photos in your mind. Then when doing the actual photography take a range of exposures, different times of the day. Make a contact sheet. If you do not have power editing software get gimp freeware. There is a Contact Sheet free plugin for gimp perhaps for any PS look alike.
http://registry.gimp.org/node/120
So, shoot, shoot, shoot. Critique as tho someone elses.

Bed ??? Hay, check out ads by the big guys, boot strap on their research dollars.

#3 (Refer to Mushroom Forum in uglyhedgehog) Which one of these elements am I to look at?? Narrow down the field. Add elements as Sug suggested. Get closer to THE element I am to focus on. Take a lot of shots lots of angle, bracket exposures. Look at photo pages on the net. Get a friend to discuss photos with, go on shoots with the friend. Join a camera club. Enjoy your new art form and forum. Don d/p

PS: Look at Sug's photo, not a jail mug shot that most people take of friends. This photo has an attractive woman and it more important to an aspiring photographer, it has composition, angle, highlights lighting, vignetting. This photo is a series of lessons in one look.
My ol' Friend Sugarpenny is right and is crisp of ... (show quote)


Wow Don aka d/p, thank you for input on my advice, as I too am a newby to photography but have always been interested in it. p.s. thanks for the compliments

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Sep 4, 2011 09:08:44   #
Sugarpenny Loc: Mid Michigan
 
lindann wrote:
Thank you so much. I really know much more about staging but I was so excited about the camera I just opened the box and threw these together. I will redo them of course and I will take your suggestions. :)
I can understand your exitement!

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Sep 4, 2011 13:49:53   #
arphot Loc: Massachusetts
 
Sugarpenny, that is sure some fine advice. If I missed it, what kind of camera are you using?

#1 - I might have taken my f/stop down to about 5.6 and blurred out the background so as not to have it in the photo, but more of a colorful backdrop.

#2 - This one is pretty decent. Kind of standard in the Inn photo montage.

#3 - Again, I like Sugarpenny's idea about the chairs and creating an inviting environment. Maybe a couple Adirondacks.

My input :thumbup:

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Sep 4, 2011 14:29:52   #
lindann
 
I thank you all so much. I will post again when I redo. I hope you all won't get tired of me. :)

I never thought I would finally get to this point and I never dreamed I would be posting picutres. I have been pourning over everything I could find to get here.

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Sep 4, 2011 14:39:20   #
sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant
 
keep it up you'll do fine. you ask good questions and are willing to listen to advice. that is using the most important tool a photographer has the brain. photography is a journey youu will never stop learning untill the day you wake up in front of the pearly gates. good luck :thumbup:

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