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

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  1. Dave W

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    That's a very good portrait of Sam Kayleigh, the angle of his head is perfect :blue thumb: Though I think you could make it even better by going into portrait format, as then you'll be able to eliminate the empty space on the left. To see what I'm suggesting try holding up your hand to mask off the left of the picture on the screen.
     
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    Lovely pictures Kayleigh and all with great feeling,
    thank you for showing me these,
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      Thank you, it just goes to show you do not need an expensive camera to take good shots. These were all took on an iPhone! :P
       
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        But just an expensive Mobile phone instead !

        But I agree none the less, it's the six inches behind the camera that takes the photo!

        Joe Cornish, a well respected and excellent Pro Photographer could take better photo's than most of us using the bottom of a coke bottle for a lens!

        Steve...:)
         
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          Hello chums:)

          Herewith, is a pic I took a few years back, in the Langdale Valley(Lake District). In the foreground the exposure seems good to my eyes, but seems 'blown' further back. Is there anything I could/should have done to avoid this?

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          I'll take that as a 'no', then.
           
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          Sorry Freddy, I missed this post of yours.:dunno: One trick where you have a bright sky and fairly sombre foreground and you end up with an over exposed sky is to point the camera at the Sky and take a meter reading and then take the shot. Some people will also use the HDR function on their camera, if it has one, and that will help. I'm sure Steve will be along to offer advice as well.:snork:
           
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          Hiya 'Mandy':)

          I had considered this, but thought maybe the foreground would be underexposed/dark?
           
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          Not as badly as the sky over exposes.:SUNsmile: What Camera have you got, Freddy??:scratch::snork:
           
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          A good point:blue thumb:


          I have a Konika/Minolta A2, a bit ancient by todays standards, I guess:dunno:
           
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          The trouble is, Freddy, that your camera cannot capture a dynamic range as wide as the difference between the bright sky and the foreground. That does leave you with just 3 options as the camera can't get it right straight away.

          a. Use your Meter to expose for the sky, and as you say the foreground will be under exposed and you have to bring that back by post processing with software.

          b. You can use a graduated ND filter on your lens, which reduces the brightness of the sky before the light reaches the camera sensor.

          c. Take HDR images, if you can, or multiple exposures and expose for the foreground on one shot, the sky on another shot, and in between for a third then you put them back together making a HDR pic that way.:snork:
           
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          Option 'b' sounds good to me:) Thanks:blue thumb:
           
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          Oh, could you expand on the use of such a filter?
           
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          Not really Freddy, and a good camera is a good camera.:thumbsup::snork: Is it the DIMAGE A2 which has the image stabilisation system. I think, if I remember rightly, it has a 8 mega pixel sensor??? Anyway, to me this desire for more and more pixels is just a fad as there's only so much detail you can squeeze into a picture. Some photographers seem to do nothing else but pixel peep but if you look at your picture there's plenty of detail in it.:snork:
           
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          I totally agree. A lot of folks seem to get caught up with the 'pixel count'. One can have all the pixels in the world, but if the lens is average, or the sensor likewise, then one can only expect average results, not withstanding the skill of the 'taker'. Yes, it's the Dimage A2:)
           
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