Late Evening Sun: Just thought I would show these from today, just got back. I feel as though I need some help with this type of shot. I dont know what im doing wrong. It looked ok...

PIPDYOUNGER Loc: SUNDERLAND NORTH EAST ENGLAND

Just thought I would show these from today, just got back. I feel as though I need some help with this type of shot. I dont know what im doing wrong. It looked ok when I was there, but dont look so good on computer. C&C needed please. :? pip

Gate

Trees

Monument

Ched49 Loc: Pittsburgh, Pa.

They all look a little soft...what settings did you use?

PIPDYOUNGER Loc: SUNDERLAND NORTH EAST ENGLAND

cjkorb wrote:

They all look a little soft...what settings did you use?

Hi cj, im not very sure about settings. I tend to look and adjust through my viewfinder, till it looks right. I think the iso was 200. aperture f5.6
Hope that information is correct. I know I should be learning more about my settings, its just finding the time, as all I want to do is take photo's. :? When you say soft, what incurs them to be soft. :| pip

larrywilk Loc: Palm Harbor, FL

PIPDYOUNGER wrote:

Just thought I would show these from today, just got back. I feel as though I need some help with this type of shot. I dont know what im doing wrong. It looked ok when I was there, but dont look so good on computer. C&C needed please. :? pip

Great subject and composition on #1 and #3. I frequently have this type exposure and am not sure how to improve it. I'll watch this topic and, hopefully, learn.

Larry

PIPDYOUNGER Loc: SUNDERLAND NORTH EAST ENGLAND

larrywilk wrote:

PIPDYOUNGER wrote:

Just thought I would show these from today, just got back. I feel as though I need some help with this type of shot. I dont know what im doing wrong. It looked ok when I was there, but dont look so good on computer. C&C needed please. :? pip

Great subject and composition on #1 and #3. I frequently have this type exposure and am not sure how to improve it. I'll watch this topic and, hopefully, learn.

Larry

Hi Larry, im just not getting a good exposure in this kind of light. I dont know if, because its winter and everything is more or less one colour, which is brown, there's no definition. Nothing seems to stand out. Well maybe we will learn something today
:? pip

larrywilk Loc: Palm Harbor, FL

PIPDYOUNGER wrote:

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I think a lot of it has to do with the overcast. It diffuses the light so much, you don't have the dramatic lighting of bright sun breaking through the shadow. It mitigates the effect.

What I do is remember the area and when the lighting is more to my liking, try to be there. Sometimes I get the shot the next day or maybe a few months.

Hopefully someone will show a better way.
Larry

PIPDYOUNGER Loc: SUNDERLAND NORTH EAST ENGLAND

larrywilk wrote:

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Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

Hi Pip. I played with your first shot a little. I think the way the sky was fooled the camera. You should have shot it a lot brighter, which means you probably would have had to drop the shutter speed or up the ISO to get it right. Would you like to see?
Erv

PIPDYOUNGER Loc: SUNDERLAND NORTH EAST ENGLAND

Erv wrote:

Hi Pip. I played with your first shot a little. I think the way the sky was fooled the camera. You should have shot it a lot brighter, which means you probably would have had to drop the shutter speed or up the ISO to get it right. Would you like to see?
Erv

Hi Erv, yeah I would love to see what youve done. Everything is a learninng curve at the moment :thumbup: pip

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

I just fool around in post. Don't really know what I am doing. But it sure is fun! :):) Let me know if this is what you saw.
Erv
For got to add what I did, sorry.:)
added:
definition,saturation,vibrancy,highlights,shadows and sharpened

PIPDYOUNGER wrote:

Erv wrote:

Hi Pip. I played with your first shot a little. I think the way the sky was fooled the camera. You should have shot it a lot brighter, which means you probably would have had to drop the shutter speed or up the ISO to get it right. Would you like to see?
Erv

Hi Erv, yeah I would love to see what youve done. Everything is a learninng curve at the moment :thumbup: pip

jthomas Loc: Lancaster, PA

Honest opinion is that the composition in # 3 is pretty good but all suffer from clutteritis.

MtnMan Loc: ID

PIPDYOUNGER wrote:

Hi cj, im not very sure about settings. I tend to look and adjust through my viewfinder, till it looks right. I think the iso was 200. aperture f5.6
Hope that information is correct. I know I should be learning more about my settings, its just finding the time, as all I want to do is take photo's. :? When you say soft, what incurs them to be soft. :| pip

Interesting compositions. I might up the exposure a bit on a couple of them.

A higher f-stop would bring more into focus. These should use more like f16 because there is detail through a wide range.

At that aperture and ISO your shutter speed will be low. You'll need to use a tripod and remote release to get them sharp.

There is a wide dynamic range. To bring that out you'd need to use something like Nikon's Active D-lighting, HDR, or at least something like Lightroom's shadows adjustments.

MtnMan Loc: ID

PIPDYOUNGER wrote:

Hi Larry, im just not getting a good exposure in this kind of light. I dont know if, because its winter and everything is more or less one colour, which is brown, there's no definition. Nothing seems to stand out. Well maybe we will learn something today
:? pip

You may be using area or matrix metering. Try spot metering on what you want to emphasize. You may want to try several shots where you meter on different brightness things.

The sky is causing the underexposure. It won't affect spot metering. The sky may blow out but that is OK because it isn't your subject.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Here's one with some Lightroom adjustments to show what can be done. The exposure suggestions above would move you in this direction sans the vignette.

There might be some interesting crop opportunities as well. Since only the thumbnail is posted significat cropping would drop the resolutiion too much to fairly illustrate.

Let us know if you like it better or not.

PIPDYOUNGER Loc: SUNDERLAND NORTH EAST ENGLAND

Erv wrote:

I just fool around in post. Don't really know what... (show quote)

Hi Erv, thats a load better. :thumbup: I also have to agree with jthomas that the photo's are quite cluttered. I think I was really looking at the effect the low sunlight was giving and did not think the shot out. But your post adjustments has improved it a lot. Thanks for your efforts Erv, its appreciated :-D :thumbup: pip