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Mar 20, 2014 18:58:10   #
On a foggy night the express goes through Redruth station


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Mar 20, 2014 18:32:18   #
smith934 wrote:
I may have missed it, but what was your lens zoomed to? Distance to the rocks?

The shore line lead my eye immediately to the headland, but as someone else mentioned it has the appearance of watercolor. I do like the shoreline leading my eye like that as to me it's the point of interest, not the rocks.

I agree as to the slight lack of sharpness, hence my question as to lens and also the distance to the rocks as they were your point of focus.


The rock in the sea was about 30yards away and my lens was set to 4.4mm (equiv. to 24mm ). Maybe it would have been a tad sharper with a slight zoom. I know that at the extreme zooms a lens loses some sharpness, but thought that was at the longer lengths, is it the same at wide angles?
Thanks for your interest.
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Mar 20, 2014 18:12:20   #
JimGuy wrote:
I also have a manfrotto...a 055xprob, and with the pan head I have on that one I have to stand on my tip toes if the camera is tilted forward at all. Im 5'10 1/2


My Manfrotto MT294 A3 with only 3 extending legs and a 5" head puts my camera well above my head, and I am 5' 9" tall. I rarely extend the bottom legs and never the center column and it is very stable for my Fuji HS50 ( although a bridge it weighs in at the same as an entry level DSLR.) And considering the make it cost around £80 very good value. Mind you it is no lightweight.
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Mar 20, 2014 17:37:12   #
Night shots taken during a club outing. Only on-camera flash used.
It was very cold and quite windy.


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Mar 19, 2014 18:13:09   #
Nightski wrote:
I was talking about the overall sharpness of the image. The rocks in the foreground are not in perfect focus, and the waves have no detail. At 1/800 sec your waves should have some detail. I don't understand what happened if you were using a tripod at 1/800 sec. Was your DOF too shallow? Was your ISO really high. That can mess with sharpness. That is my biggest problem with the photo. As Jgordon said, it is an exceptionally nice shot of a shoreline. It just needs a point of interest and sharpness.
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The ISO was 200 and the aperture f3.2. and I spot focussed on the rocks in the sea, , probably I should have focussed on the waters edge or even on the stones on the beach (Hyperfocal?) There was a stiff breeze blowing and my tripod was on loose gravel, so maybe that caused some vibration. Thanks a lot for your interest and comments, thats how we learn to improve.
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Mar 19, 2014 11:41:50   #
Nightski wrote:
Let's please stick to critiquing the image. The OP has posted in the Critique section. We owe it to him to give an honest evaluation. If it helps, here are some of the elements you may use as a guideline to evaluate the image.

1. IMPACT
2. TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE
3. CREATIVITY
4. STYLE
5. COMPOSITION
6. PRESENTATION
7. COLOR BALANCE
8. CENTER OF INTEREST
9. LIGHTING
10. SUBJECT MATTER
11. TECHNIQUE
12. STORY TELLING

Nice impact. The image depicts the rocky beach ravaged by the storm. The image could be sharper. Was this hand held? Creativity is lacking. There are many great beach shots. What makes this one interesting? It's nice to have some sort of subject in these types of shots that gives interest to the photo. I think you have done well with exposure and color.
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Thank you nightski, it was taken on a tripod at 1/800 sec with my camera mode set to EXR DR to allow for the dark cliff and the brighter sea and sky. I did not notice the fringing on the horizon and on the cliff to the right. (Chromatic aberration?)
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Mar 19, 2014 11:31:08   #
jgordon wrote:
I love beach scenes when I see them in person. The vastness of the ocean, the expanse of shore, the meeting of water and sky can stunning.

When I try and squeeze those scenes into the frame of a photograph, I am often disappointed. The vastness just doesn't seem to fit very well into the relatively small two dimensional representation. So, I am often unsatisfied in my own photos of such scenes.

TonyB did a nice job with his effort. I like the curl of the coastline and the rocky texture in the shore. But the puzzle of these kind of shots is still there. In a photo, my eye wants a clear point of first reference. In my own photos, I often find that missing in beach scenes. In TonyB's shot the rocks out in the water seem to supply such a focal point. But they are not located in the most interesting place in the photo (they are pretty much smack dab in the center) and I don't find them all that interesting.

I would have tried to take this photograph. Then I would have looked at it and been a tad disappointed in my work. TonyB's effort might be better than the one I might have attempted, but it still leaves me a little dissatisfied.
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Thank you jgordon, I did focus on the rocks in the sea but widened my zoom to bring in the headland. But my main reason was showing that the beach had lost its sand due to the storms. There was nobody else around but I would have liked a figure at the waters edge to add scale.
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Mar 19, 2014 11:25:00   #
selmslie wrote:
The composition is fine and there is not much you can do to make the color stronger, the lighting and weather are what they are.

There is a bit of a problem with the rendition of the slopes to the right - they lack texture or detail and look like a watercolor.

This seems to have been cropped from a 16MP image down to about 7MP, so you may have sacrificed some of the camera's potential. The recorded focal length is about 4mm (equivalent to 24mm for full frame). Once you realize how much you might wan to crop it, you are better off doing that in the camera.

For landscapes you will want to go as low as possible with the ISO and close down the aperture as much as you can (in your case maybe f/8) so long as your shutter speed is not too slow for the focal length - or use a tripod.

There is some fringing along the horizon and the top of the hills to the right. This may have come from post-processing.
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Thank you selmslie, I did use a tripod and the shutter speed was 1/800. The camera was set to EXR mode (D range priority) to allow for the brighter sea and the darker cliffs. I used spot focus on the rock in the sea, but now realise I should have positioned it using 'rule of thirds.
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Mar 19, 2014 07:43:46   #
SonyA580 wrote:
It's safe here in FL!


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Mar 18, 2014 17:56:52   #
Gunwallow beach in Cornwall after the February gales.


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Mar 17, 2014 18:24:02   #
photophile wrote:
Funny dog statues TonyB. :-)


I like them wearing wellies.
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Mar 16, 2014 16:15:50   #
Thank you Sailorsmom and Manglesphoto. yes I agree that the ear was cropped off and the apparent hole was distracting. Unfortunately I don't see these things until its too late, I should take more time composing.
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Mar 15, 2014 16:26:34   #
Sirius_one wrote:
Well done.


Thank you, Sirius.
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Mar 15, 2014 13:41:00   #
It would have been interesting to see what an exposure of 1/50sec and f2.8 would have done with an ISO at 3200. I think your X20 could do that and it would get rid of a lot of your grain/noise. Or of course you could have used a tripod and reduced exposure to about 1/15th sec and ISO to 800.
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Mar 14, 2014 18:27:18   #
Doddy wrote:
Nice one's Tony.


Thank you Doddy, my first attempt at night pictures and long exposures between 5sec and 30secs.
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