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09/08/2007 03:09:05 AM |
| a little more dodging and burning would give this photo more feeling. I like the composition with the plant on the left and the wood on the right. |
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09/06/2007 03:18:00 PM |
I got your note about being in Aperture Priority mode. This expalins the loooong shutter speed as your camera had to balance out the tiny aperture you dialed in.
Some people will champion the benefits of the various auto modes. So allow me to champion the benefits of setting your camera on full manual mode and then tearing the knob off - you will quickly learn what settings to use in most situations and be able to make creative decisions about exposures that your camera can't.
If you stick with aperture mode (for learning or whatever), try and set an aperture that causes the camera to spin up a shutter speed of 1/focal length. So assuming you had your telephoto dialed up to 100mm and multiplying that by the 1.6x crop factor of your camera, you would want to see the camera giving you a shutter speed of 1/160th second or faster. A scene like this, an aperture of F6.3 would probably be adequate as there isn't much depth in the scene. The aperture you used on this shot would (were the fence not there) put everything in focus between the shovel and, say, the next state. ;)
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09/06/2007 10:19:50 AM |
Originally posted by routerguy666:
Are you shooting in manual mode? I am guessing so. The picture is not very sharp and the reason for that is likely the two and a half second shutter speed. You need that shutter speed because the aperture is at F18 so not much light is let in. Besides the obvious downside of a long exposure like that increasing the chance for camera movement, the picture quality itself will start to degrade on a digital camera like the 400D somewhere around F14 or F16 due to light fragementation - some technical thing which I don't remember exactly but Kirbic pontificated on in the forums.
Also if you have photoshop, run a very light smart sharpen over the shot after your final resize. I will usually do something like 50% strength, .03 radius, remove Gaussian Blur - that will tighten things up quite nicely for dpc size images.
Exposure is a bit on the dim side here. Maybe that's your intent.
Could also consider either cropping it so that post on the right is gone or rotating the image so said post is vertically aligned with the side of the frame, keeping the image from feeling/looking tilted. |
What he said... |
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09/06/2007 09:39:48 AM |
Are you shooting in manual mode? I am guessing so. The picture is not very sharp and the reason for that is likely the two and a half second shutter speed. You need that shutter speed because the aperture is at F18 so not much light is let in. Besides the obvious downside of a long exposure like that increasing the chance for camera movement, the picture quality itself will start to degrade on a digital camera like the 400D somewhere around F14 or F16 due to light fragementation - some technical thing which I don't remember exactly but Kirbic pontificated on in the forums.
Also if you have photoshop, run a very light smart sharpen over the shot after your final resize. I will usually do something like 50% strength, .03 radius, remove Gaussian Blur - that will tighten things up quite nicely for dpc size images.
Exposure is a bit on the dim side here. Maybe that's your intent.
Could also consider either cropping it so that post on the right is gone or rotating the image so said post is vertically aligned with the side of the frame, keeping the image from feeling/looking tilted. |
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09/06/2007 09:20:30 AM |
Good eye to see this. It's an interesting photo overall. Could use some PP work IMO. Seems dark and somewhat flat (curves/histogram adjustment and boost contrast).
Smile and keep having fun! :) |
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09/06/2007 12:28:13 AM |
i'm sorry but i cant look at this image without thinking morbid thoughts .. LOVE IT !!! ... probably because of the darkness, with the feeling of night or night time coming on, that the spade and the rake are for some nefarious purpose ... i'm thinking grave digging !!! .. the spade to dig the hole and the rake to make it look entirely natural and untouched afterwards !! .. :)
Message edited by author 2007-09-06 00:28:36. |
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09/05/2007 11:33:58 PM |
| I think this would be great with a tighter crop of the tools and a big contrast bump. There are alot of fantastic texturees in this shot that need showing off. |
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