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Some flowers for perusal and critique
I'm not sure why you used such a wide aperture, but with little DOF to play with most of the images are out of focus. The closer you are the more you need to stop down to get any DOF. Focusing needs to be very carefully done. If some of the image is to be defocused that's fine, but the compositio...
Posted by johnriley on 03/07/2007 - 07:59
Some flowers for perusal and critique
I like the wood in no 3 but IMHO the foreground needs to be in focus as well. Otherwise I agree with Johns points totally. Also I don't feel you need the Polarizer, take it off and you'll get more light so you can stop down further.
Posted by Rodger Fooks on 03/07/2007 - 08:08
Some flowers for perusal and critique
In general I think the shallow DOF works fine in your pictures. In #3 I would have preferred the focus a bit closer to you. In #2 the red tulips are a bit too dark for my taste, I would try a curves adjustment on this. In #5 (and #7) the reds look a bit flat, i.e. not much detail in the petals, pe...
Posted by Prieni on 03/07/2007 - 09:30
Cornish Walk (when the wx was a lot better, few weeks ago!)
Very nice, I like the bent up pettle in no.2 gives it character but I think personally I would have liked the whole front flower to be in focus. I also really like no 4, it really draws you in. well done
Posted by confused on 05/07/2007 - 21:52
Cornish Walk (when the wx was a lot better, few weeks ago!)
...I was trying to capture the atmosphere of the summer All very, VERY nice Lilly. #1 Please don't change it. That is how you found it, why change it to so called "perfection"? That's life - that's death and decay, that's how the real world is. I like it a lot...as is. #2 A scene t...
Posted by photo*ist on 06/07/2007 - 00:50
Eu import surcharge on digital cameras
Presumably this will also apply to mobile phones as most of them now have a camera/video facility. I concur with Don. They are out to get us. (Scuttles back inside the shell)
Posted by Ammonyte on 07/07/2007 - 17:28
A week in the Lakes...
Thanks George.. We had a bit of sun on Wednesday evening, but apart from that it rained pretty much all the time.. :P I've got a few shots of the weather coming down across the hills.. while we were still in them.. :shock: Locations in order.. Bottom end of Windermere, at Ambleside,...
Posted by LiamD on 07/07/2007 - 20:27
Weekly Competition #2 - Play
Welcome back, Viewfinder, and with a proper camera and a decent picture, too! Congratulations. G
Posted by George Lazarette on 15/07/2007 - 13:03
Weekly Competition #2 - Play
Oh wow! Quite a bumper entry, and I'm sure my choices are going to upset some people, but it's my decision so it doesn't have to be right! As the pictures were posted over the course of the week, I agonised mightily over several different shots. I'll follow John's lead and run through the pictu...
Posted by Ammonyte on 16/07/2007 - 00:57
air rifle image
Hello peeps, my image for the 'play' competition is me pointing my unloaded air rifle at the camera. I 'play' with this when shooting at targets at the end of my garden. It is a cheap .22 rifle with a cheap telescopic sight bought for shooting rats (also at the end of the garden, we have a river...
Posted by justgetoutandride on 11/07/2007 - 18:07
air rifle image
... I can imagine it would help an active teenager, if you can get them to stand still for long enough! you could get in some troubles for shooting those..... teenagers can be problemattic, but there are less, (shall we say permanent?) ways to deal with those active teens.... Nice twist there Do...
Posted by justgetoutandride on 12/07/2007 - 14:49
Another macro effort
Thought I'd share this effort from this morning. I still haven't really got the hang of lighting, so I'd be grateful for any suggestions. It was about 4mm across including legs, taken with the K10D and a 50mm SMC-A with all 65mm of extension tube. F16 on auto with the built in flash. Focusing ...
Posted by ChrisA on 11/07/2007 - 18:30
Un Branded....
No lynching here.... I have a branded $20 circular polarizing filter. Works just fine. I am positive that more expensive filters will give sharper images, and they will most certainly give a better polarizing effect... I do not know if the increase in quality outweighs the price for my uses....
Posted by amoringello on 12/07/2007 - 16:44
Manfretto
Y'know, a tripod is a bit like a shirt. There is not one that suits every occasion. I have 4 + a monopod, and I use them all at various times. The 190 stays in my car along with the monopod and I use those for wandering about the landscape. My 190PROB is mainly confined to studio type work or to ...
Posted by Mannesty on 15/07/2007 - 18:42
Some evidence..........
that love is blind..................... This amorous couple were having a right good time........ till Boris the Spider crashed in on them :twisted: So the next time you get amorous with your other half, best keep an eye on the door :lol: and this blighter didn't like me very much...
Posted by McBrian on 16/07/2007 - 19:42
Weekly Competition #3 - "Heat"
Niblue is currently cooking in the heat at EuroDisney so has asked me to start off his competition. The subject is "Heat" (can't guess what made him think of that.) Deadline is Sunday at Midnight and hopefully niblue will be back in time to judge. Minimal rules as before, but please ...
Posted by johnriley on 18/07/2007 - 18:03
Weekly Competition #3 - "Heat"
Niblue can't be with us just now, so he has asked me to fill in for him. Here then is the judging: justgetoutandride has given us more candle light than heat I think, but it has been done very well. I think I might have played around with the composition a little more. Very good exposure. Chri...
Posted by johnriley on 23/07/2007 - 20:48
Questions and comments on weekly competition #3 - Heat
ChrisA, it still looks a bit washed out, can't see any clear blacks at all. Don't think it is my screen, because I can see blacks in the other two pictures. Thanks. I've made one final edit. I think I need a new monitor! I've gone back to the original print, and it seems that the black bits...
Posted by ChrisA on 20/07/2007 - 14:24
just came back from holiday
Just came back from 3 weeks holiday in Sweden (with a sidestep to Finland). Now I have to go through the 3,5GB+ of pictures (all in RAW mode with my DS). Don't know how good everything turned out as I have allso taken the time to do a lot of experimenting (full manual mode with the AF360 allso in f...
Posted by golfdiesel on 21/07/2007 - 10:50
just came back from holiday
Welcome back - hopefully the weather was better there than here. In fact I know it was. I'm beginning to lose faith in Piet Paulusma and his promises that it is going to get better!
Posted by Gwyn on 21/07/2007 - 13:31
