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05/14/2011 09:56:09 AM |
| nice garden scene well composed |
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05/13/2011 11:39:03 AM |
I gave this a low average vote and wanted to leave a few comments as to why. First the good points: You have great color and a very good exposure with very even light. I like the composition as well. The line of the fence at an angle across the foreground and the layers going into the photo with the flowers in the mid ground and the trees and water and finally the bridge. It's a nice, peaceful and a beautiful scene worthy of a shot for the photo album.
What brings this down for me is the lack of good focus. Nothing is really sharp and the plane of focus doesn't seem to land anywhere in the photo. I would have to see the exif to tell if you used a small aperture here. I think you may be somewhere in the f5.6 - f8 range. With good focus, at a minimum the fence should show off the details of it's great texture, and the tulips should be nice and crisp. The background can fade off out of focus slightly to taste. I would go minimum f8 to f11 and maybe even f22 if you want this in HD quality sharpness. But with an aperture that small you may have to use a tripod as you tend to get down into the 1/40, 1/20 or lower shutter speeds which doesn't work out that well handheld and leads to camera shake.
I suspect that camera shake killed the sharpness here due to being handheld at small aperture and longer shutter speeds. There is a general rule for handheld that says use a shutter speed of 1/focal length or higher to hand hold.
Sorry for writing a book but some people complain about not having any detailed comments when they leave lower or average votes. I will revisit this post challenge to hopefully see your shot data. |
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05/11/2011 01:34:07 PM |
| I like the background scene here, but there appears to be some major lost highlight detail on the upper fence rail. |
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05/09/2011 04:38:19 PM |
| that is a nice location but i feel like the sharpen is too strong on the bokeh behind. |
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