GlenBose Loc: NE Florida, formerly Limerick, PA

These two shots were taken in Iceland this July. The first was in the bar area of the hotel, a moody piece. The second was a shot from the upper floor down the spiral staircase, leaning precariously over the railing while my wife screamed invective's about my position (which made me more nervous).
Both were taken with my Canon D80 and a Tamron XR DiII SP 17-50 1:2.8.
First:1/10, APriority, -1 EV, f 2.8, ISO 320 @35mm.
Second: 1/15, Ap Prio, -1 EV, f 2.8, ISO 320, @35mm.
Larry

The Bar

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Spiral Staircase

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CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Both are fine with pleasing blue / purple light. The bar would benefit from a run through a noise processing tool to clean up the specs of colors in the darker areas. You might also level the bar against the bottom of the frame. It would slightly change the image, but might accomplish cropping away the final support that distracts in the upper left corner of the image. If you don't change the level, try pulling in the left margin slightly to remove that support.

For the stairwell, I'd prefer a sharper depth of field. With your camera, you had headroom for a smaller aperture and higher ISO at the same shutterspeed. You could have set a focus point at the center of the frame, say at f/5.6 on the 3rd spiral before the circle. Or, maybe on the second circle in from your position. Or even on the grid above the stairs. What's lacking in this version is nowhere in the image, where the eyes are drawn, is there a sharp focus on the details. Also, you could clone-out the out of focus flowers in lower right corner.

fergmark Loc: norwalk connecticut

#2 could be a stronger composition with a little cropping. I will show what I mean if you like.

GlenBose Loc: NE Florida, formerly Limerick, PA

I'm here to learn... whatever you can help me with will be appreciated. Thank you
Larry

GlenBose Loc: NE Florida, formerly Limerick, PA

[quote=CHG_CANON]Both are fine with pleasing blue / purple light.


Thanks, CHG_CANON, I'll see what I can do with your suggestions over the next few days and see if my software, Faststone, can implement those changes (or my knowledge of it). I also use Paintshop Pro 9 for some processing.
I appreciate your looking in and helps. It makes me think more when I take up my camera!
Larry

fergmark Loc: norwalk connecticut

You can tell me what you think. Mark

ronichas Loc: Long Island

I have photographed that staircase in Iceland twice. I took the image from the bottom up and from the top down. I used a Nikon D750 with a Rokinon 14 mm lens. Settings were ISO 1000, f3.2 1/160 -3.

I do think your white balance was off and you might have used a higher ISO. This would have helped with a sharper image.

fergmark Loc: norwalk connecticut

My goodness Roni, those are two exceptional images.

ronichas Loc: Long Island

Thanks so much. I wanted to show the difference in using a higher ISO. Especially when not using a tripod.