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05/20/2006 10:28:30 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club!
First off, let me say welcome to DPC! I see this was your first challenge you entered. I hope there will be many more that follow. Below is my critique of your photo. Please take these as suggestions/things to consider.
Technicals:
I'm not sure exactly what your intentions were but I think you wanted to capture the near full moon. If so your exposure time was way too much as everything in the sky got blown out. Try a much faster shutter speed (say 3 seconds to start out with) and an aperture setting around 4 or 5.6 to give you a bit more DOF. I'd rather have a image on the dark side than on the bright side since darker images are easier to fix in post processing so keep that in mind when experiementing with your settings.
Subject/composition:
The trees are a real distraction. Getting a good exposure of the night sky with the trees that close may be next to impossible so I'd suggest composing this shot different so any trees in the shot would be at a greater distance. That way any wind effects would be far less noticable. Also, I'd suggest framing the subject off-center. I assume the moon is in that bright spot so when you frame this have it more to the left preferrably.
Verdict/Summary:
The image suffers greatly due to the technicals. With time I think you can get a sharper cleaner image. Even if you wanted that bright glow in the sky the trees that close will continue to give you problems so have those at a greater distance and your image will come across better. |
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05/13/2006 08:19:32 PM |
| This was an interesting experiment. I expect you used a tripod, but perhaps there was wind, so the trees are not sharp. And the flow of the clouds wasn't quite enough to give definite movement. Bracketing helps in these experiments. The one thing I would suggest in composition is that little dark area to the lower left. If you cropped just above that, it would remove an avoidable distraction. I really like what you tried to do here - keep up the experimentation. |
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05/12/2006 12:43:07 PM |
| a little too soft, and not very interesting. |
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05/11/2006 11:19:14 PM |
| I initially had this at a lower score but realised I couldn't quite explain why. I have to admit that the composition and the colour don't really do a lot for me but it does have a certain atmosphere to it that appeals to me. Slightly spooky. |
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05/11/2006 08:05:28 PM |
| the hot spot in the center make it difficult to look at ... my eye wants to dance to the edges where it's darker ... |
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05/11/2006 11:45:45 AM |
| pretty, but loses the impact Im sure you saw when shooting. |
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05/10/2006 11:41:28 AM |
| Seems a bit grainy and slightly out of focus. I also can't tell what the main subject of the shot is. I would have cropped out that object in the bottom-left corner and shot this in color to try and capture that blue cast from the moon. |
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