How would you adjust
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Fishing is so dead here right now that I resumed to doing stuff like this. Anyway – I own a D50 with 18-55 and 70-300 lens. Im trying to learn how to take pics. This is my first shot. My question is: what would you have done different and if you were to manipulate in Photoshop how would it look (if you can repost the pic after you manipulate it).
Zach – hope this kind of post is okay with you
Exposure: 1/125f at f6
Focal Length: 300mm
Flash: Did not fireHey Robert,
Nice first attempt.
The first thing I would ask is….whats with the leaf? Big distraction. Shoot it again without it.
Good shot, nice f-stop selection for the blur. I agree that that’s great work for a first try. Here’s what I’d do to tweak it:
1) Get closer.
Good Start! Everything the other guys said is excellent advice. What I think you might want to consider doing is really look at you subject and think about how you want to shoot it. Its easy to start blasting away. Get the camera out of your hands where it dosen’t distract you from your subject and close one eye and look at the subject as camera will see it. Turn the subject until you achieve an angle you like. You might want to think about showing multiple surfaces to help achieve a sense of depth and dimension. If you can’t move the subject move around with one eye closed and observe the relationship of objects and surfaces and light and pick a camera position and shoot. Fill the frame and shoot. Cropping in Photoshop just shows that the picture was not well seen. Get a good tripod and use it when you can. Explore natural light and try using reflectors etc. on still life subjects before you slap a flash on you camera. Play what if. What if I moved over here. What if I waited until the sun moved higher or lower in the sky. What if I came back later or earlier etc. Have fun and do as much as you can “in camera”. If your pictures are well seen and executed in the field you won’t have to “fix” them in Photoshop. Study the work of other photographers and try to figure out what they did. Digital technology has turned the path to mediocre photography into a 8 lane freeway and turned bumbs in to photographers and photographers into bumbs, if you want to get good work at it.
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