Love is.....music from the heart

Pentax have always had a ring flash and I understood that a new version was in preparation. I think it's somewhat overdue...

Personally I think the crop and the conversion have done the trick and we're left with a nice image.

The bag is a permanent attachment when I'm out and about and no self-portrait would be complete without it!

I must have been impressed because I stole your idea whilst I was out today and made a similar image of my own. I'll maybe post it soon and you can tell me what you think!

And here it is:

I'm still a little unhappy with the colour and with the out of focus tree at the right of the image.

The shadows are great, so why not concentrate on those, which are the main focus of the image, and crop out the blurred tree trunk completely?

If the colour is still a problem then it's always possible to consider presenting this as black and white instead. That might be good as the composition is essentially a graphic design.

I like the idea, with its bold design and unusual composition.

I think it might have benefited from the use of a smaller aperture to increase the depth of field. Large areas of the image are out of focus.

The colour is obviously warm, which is fine, but I do find the yellow-green to be not quite what I would expect from late evening sun. A tweak to the colour balance would help.

Hope that helps!

It can indeed be a problem, especially with film, but at least in a DSLR we can adjust the final crop in Photoshop.

Because there is a very high amount of precision necessary to get a 100% view viewfinder, which no doubt costs more, and also some allowance was made for the amount that most printing machines crop from an image. And for that matter how much of the image is masked in a slide mount.

The first rule of SLRs is never, ever clean the mirror. The mechanism is critical to the correct focusing and is easily put out of adjustment. In normal use, the mirror should not need to be cleaned anyway, even after many years of use. Any specks will have no effect on the image.

The same applies to the focusing screen, which is made of very soft plastic. The screen can be ruined by attempts to clean.

I hope that your cleaning was only by blower brush and not a physical polish.

A full version of Photoshop could be the most useful purchase, especially if you are looking to do weddingd.