How Good is my Photo..?? Discussion.. Any tips, Criticisms or Ideas Please..!!

Thank you. I am trying to be more careful when I actually take photos these days, I know we can always crop bits off, etc but I've got few holiday photos from a few years ago where the horizon is on the diagonal rather than being straight and I always want to straighten it up when I look at them these days!

 

Very nice James!

 

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Any comments, good or bad, much appreciated

 

OK lordspudz, here's my opinion for what it's worth.
After having had a look at the pics on your own website, this isn't a patch on your landscape photos, and most of them are quite stunning.
I've looked at the EXIF data for your photo and see you took it at 1/10 sec @ f2.8 and at ISO 200.
The photo is cleverly composed by framing just a quarter of the flower, however it's quite out of focus throughout the image apart from perhaps one very small area.
My suggestion is that for a subject such as this, in natural light as it was, you'd have been better using a tripod and remote shutter release and reducing the aperture to f8 or less with a concommitant reduction in shutter speed. This would increase depth of field and sharpness significantly.
Another route to go would be to up the ISO to 1600 and this would allow you reduced aperture without significant degradation of image quality when viewed on screen.

 

I don't have the benefit of photography or art knowhow, so my opinion is purely subjective.

I think its excellent. It portrays the flower from a perspective that we wouldn't normally see, and seeing things from different perspectives is always a winner in my book.

 

Got me bang to rights Dave, I didn't use a tripod and would have been better off using an aperture of around f8. I'll know next time :-)

Thanks for the comments about my other photos, much appreciated.

Thanks too, Clueless

 

Sometimes the light is just right for a special effect. This was shot today with our little point and shoot Sony. When I saw the photo on the computer I decided to add the canvas texture as the picture reminded me of paintings I'd seen.

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Time I started to be active again on GC...
Have you missed me?.... no... oh well.. I`m here to stay.
Daves picture above somehow works for me.
I have tried all sorts of effects on photoshop and rarely come up with a good one with some impact.
Nice one Dave.

 

Hi there. thought I would ask you guys what can be done to the sky in this photo as it is blown? Took the picture in Knaresborough a few weeks ago in the early evening under cloudy skies. The thing that really stands out for me is the reflection of the house in the river and that is the reason I took the shot.

 

Yes Pip, sky and water in foreground are both blown and with a sky that's uniform grey and lacking in contrast and the very blown foreground with no detail it's hard to produce an image with detail that just wasn't there.
I've tried a pseudo HDR approach by taking your original and creating additional images with + and - exposure values and then combining them and then doing some minor tweaking in PS. It has maybe worked up to a point, but with having to use pseudo-HDR I've been trying to enhance detail that just wasn't available.
If you had taken three or more bracketed exposures, preferably in RAW format, though JPEG does work pretty well, there may have been enough detail to produce a combined image that had some detail in both sky and foreground.
Not a good day for a photo though!

 

Somehow didn't manage to append this to previous post!

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Just playing around with the settings and modes while trying out the new Pan FZ150 and thought I'd take the same pic in the 'creative' mode. Not sure whether they are really useful or not but here are some.
Expressive.


Retro.


Sepia.


Mono/Grainy.


Pinhole.


Minature.

 

Strongy I'd go for 'Retro' everytime, but I have my own bias. I prefer to see pictures in their natural state and this one is the closest.

 

I don't think I would take a pic using these modes normally as they are not natural but they just looked different.
This camera is so much better than the Nikon.

 

So glad you're pleased with it.