Photography thread (closed thread, see first and last post)

[redtailgal]

I'd like to know your thoughts on this pic.

What do you notice?
what do you like?
What do you dislike?
How does your eye travel along this shot?
What would you do differently?

***I am putting this out there for you, please be honest with your critique. I'm not delicate, so no sugar coating needed. If you hate the shot, just say so, but tell me why. I will not get mad!

 

[daisychick]

I don't know the technical terms so I will just tell it how I see it. I wish the light part of the green tops of the trees was a little lighter, so it had more "pop" to it. I like the dark shadow parts but I do wish there was more contrast between light and dark areas.

 

[redtailgal]

ok, now I have it, I think.

 

[marlowmanor]

I think it looks nicer that way. You can see more detail.

 

[bonbean01]

Great thread for those good with cameras...I use a point and shoot Kodak digital, but if I do say so myself, get some not bad photos with it. One complaint though...my lambs like to come after dark and without great lighting, photos do not come out great...but...come morning, there I am...each and every lamb an exciting event!!!!

 

[redtailgal]

and this one, my kids like this one.

 

[marlowmanor]

I agree with your kids. I like that one even better!

 

[daisychick]

Yes the last one is the best so far. The trees I wanted to see lighted up are now and it looks a lot better!

 

[DKRabbitry]

OH my... what have you all been doing behind my back!? I wanna talks photos tooo!!!

I have a Nikon D50 digital SLR. I took photography in high school, that was a 35mm class, but a lot of what I learned with that camera has moved over to the digital and I like to play sometimes, but don't get to as much as I would like. Gnerally I just have it on auto and let it go, doing all the editing on the computer. I will do manual focus a lot though. The focus on my camera can be fickle at times, especially if I want to focus to be on a background part instead of what is in the foreground.
If I REALLY wanted to take the time to learn something, it would be how to take inside photos. I can't stand artificial lighting. I would much rather just be outside on a sunny day.


On that last landscape... I definitely prefer that last one. It really helps the depth of the photo to have those trees and the foreground brighter. I love the balance that it has and the way the lines take your eyes horizontally across the image. My eyes starting at that dark spot in the middle of the clouds, then ran down the sloping part of that closest mountain and alond the treeline to see the rest of the mountains. Beautiful work

 

[redtailgal]

Thanks for the help guys. The final pic will be one of the 20 landscapes that I will submit for my professional portfolio!

Dk:

Your focusing issue is probably not a camera issue at all. What you are talking about is a depth of field that you havent learned to control yet. There are several things that you can do about it. First, what do you know about aperture settings, and f-stops?

Here is a page that I put together that may help you;
Getting a good focus for clear sharp pictures (point and shoot or SLR)
http://www.backyardherds.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2952-focus-people

You can read the other pages by going here: http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=14312

When you are ready and understand the focusing issue, let me know and I'll tell you how to manipulate that depth of field, so that you can choose how much, if any, of the pic you want blurred out.