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Oct 30, 2017 11:53:03 #
BIGRO
Loc: NYC
Good Day All.
please give me your advice on what I can do to make this better. Your advice is highly appreciated. First time posting a picture so hopefully it was done correctly.
please give me your advice on what I can do to make this better. Your advice is highly appreciated. First time posting a picture so hopefully it was done correctly.
Oct 30, 2017 12:01:21 #
Oct 30, 2017 12:06:36 #
Oct 30, 2017 12:32:43 #
BIGRO
Loc: NYC
Apologies, I figured it would show the settings, I used 1/60 F5.0 at iso3200. Shot raw+jpeg.
Oct 30, 2017 12:34:27 #
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Oct 30, 2017 19:35:39 #
Lance Pearson
Loc: Viriginia
great idea. Suggestions...step to the right three or four more steps then shoot keeping the metal angled weir completely out of the photo..adds nothing, is distracting. Also crop to eliminate the logs in the water to focus the viewer's eye just on the tree, the reflection, the water and the color. I took the liberty of cropping to show you what one of the things that could be done with the image. Great start on composition. You have an eye for it..now refine the technique either directly or through post or both. At least that is what I would think to do. Your artistic senses may make you go in other directions but the result just from cropping improved a good composition significantly by eliminating the extraneous so the eye focuses on the core...my view anyway.
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Oct 30, 2017 19:38:08 #
Lance Pearson
Loc: Viriginia
I would just have deleted this one in post processing. (clouds) No focus on anything interesting that I could see. Most delete far more than they save...or you get buried in images quite quickly. I have a nikon d4 that shoots up to 11 fps...you can die in a hurry with 200 images to post! This one not worth messing with. lack of anything interesting to see.
Oct 30, 2017 20:10:40 #
Oct 30, 2017 20:16:57 #
In both of them I can see several areas that you could address the next time. Brian Petersons book on the exposure triangle would be a help for you.
First re read your manual for your camera with regard to metering. The water and rocks in the first are over exposed and to a certain degree the clouds in the second.By metering on the brightest elements and then adjusting ev I think would have given you a better chance to adjust in PP.
Find a way to keep the camera steadier, I think they each are showing some movement. Shutter speed can compensate for some of that( the leaves Im sure were moving and the clouds were moving also). Even when I looked at the rocks ( which I am assuming were not moving, focus was off).
Re read f stop. I would have used F/13 on both of these for greater depth of field.
I don't understand the ISO of 3200. that seems very high for the scene you were shooting and contributed to the light blowout on the water and the rocks in the foreground.
I don't agree to just ditch these. Put them into your PP and play a bit with ev, contrast and color etc. See what you come up with and pay attention if it begins to look better what the changes make it that way. Then when you have to choose settings again it begins to make more sense.
I agree with Lance that the crop makes for a stronger picture.
Remember that you started with two difficult subjects. Water reflection (sometimes a filter helps here) and clouds and sky present special problems.
As far as the sky shot goes I would have exposed for the whites (so they weren't blown out, let the trees fall to a silloutte against the sky. Higher shutter speed (even though you may not tell they are moving) and turned up the contrast and blue color of the sky in post..
First re read your manual for your camera with regard to metering. The water and rocks in the first are over exposed and to a certain degree the clouds in the second.By metering on the brightest elements and then adjusting ev I think would have given you a better chance to adjust in PP.
Find a way to keep the camera steadier, I think they each are showing some movement. Shutter speed can compensate for some of that( the leaves Im sure were moving and the clouds were moving also). Even when I looked at the rocks ( which I am assuming were not moving, focus was off).
Re read f stop. I would have used F/13 on both of these for greater depth of field.
I don't understand the ISO of 3200. that seems very high for the scene you were shooting and contributed to the light blowout on the water and the rocks in the foreground.
I don't agree to just ditch these. Put them into your PP and play a bit with ev, contrast and color etc. See what you come up with and pay attention if it begins to look better what the changes make it that way. Then when you have to choose settings again it begins to make more sense.
I agree with Lance that the crop makes for a stronger picture.
Remember that you started with two difficult subjects. Water reflection (sometimes a filter helps here) and clouds and sky present special problems.
As far as the sky shot goes I would have exposed for the whites (so they weren't blown out, let the trees fall to a silloutte against the sky. Higher shutter speed (even though you may not tell they are moving) and turned up the contrast and blue color of the sky in post..
Oct 31, 2017 03:05:19 #
BIGRO
Loc: NYC
Thank you cmc65, I took that shot in the evening around 545 and that's how the light was. Being that I was using a kit lens that doesn't
allow for much light I bumped up the iso, couldn't quite get it to come close to the center of the meter. Best I could do at the moment. Going manual is definitely a learning experience. Will look into that book. The shake is probably because I was handheld. My fault not the camera
allow for much light I bumped up the iso, couldn't quite get it to come close to the center of the meter. Best I could do at the moment. Going manual is definitely a learning experience. Will look into that book. The shake is probably because I was handheld. My fault not the camera
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