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Reflections
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My daughter and I reflected in a bandsman’s drum at the Parade yesterday.
Robbie
8)A well timed shot… quite a clear reflection too.
Shame you don’t have the entire drum
Thanks Jay. Was the first thing I said when I looked at it on the laptop later..or rather..Bugger!! was the first thing…followed by…I missed the top of the drum. It’s not cropped at all from the top..so nothing I can do unfortunately.
Good camera holding technique ;)
Nice idea Robbie, but very poorly delivered IMO. Apart from cutting off the top of the drum, which pretty much destroys the shot, the exposure is also off. The red channel is slightly blown as are other important parts like the hand, drum stick, girls face in the background etc. There’s also something very funny going on, with halos.. is it motion blur/softness?
Not sure Ciaran to be honest. At the time I took the shot the sun came blazing through the clouds..for probably the only time that afternoon…hence I ended up with blown highlights on the girls face and the drummers hand. The group where moving right by as I took the shot and I was concentrating more on getting the reflection as bang centre in the drum as I could. I had a problem with a lot of the shots I took on the day which I commented on in another post. Am a bit mystified as to the reason…I would have one shot fairly sharp and the next very soft on the same settings, same light mostly. I had the camera on Aperture Priority for most of the time, don’t know if that was the problem. Am pretty sure I was keeping the camera steady..but then who knows.
It did seem to be a focussing issue mostly, though it looked fine when I was looking through the viewfinder.
I’m sure it was mostly down to my inexperience with the camera… I’ll have to put up a few of the dodgy shots with EXIF later and see if anyone can spot an obvious error on my behalf :?
Expresbro wrote:
I’ll have to put up a few of the dodgy shots with EXIF later and see if anyone can spot an obvious error on my behalf :?
If you do anything with the shot in Photoshop and save it, Photoshop will strip a lot of the original EXIF out. Posting the original JPG with all the really juicy EXIF information will be of more help if you want people to try and debug your problems.
Okay…I’ll have a look later. I started out shooting in RAW and Jpeg..then switched to RAW only …then for the last few Jpeg only…(damn 2GB card!!)
Just ordered a 4GB card, hopefully sort that out in future. This one is probably in RAW only and converted to JPEG in Camera Raw. I’ll just do a straight Jpeg conversion again later and wont change anything and post it.
Cheers
It’s not the changing… it’s the saving as JPG inside Photoshop which removes a considerable amount of the original EXIF. The original JPG’s contain lots of information like which focus area was used, how many shutter clicks your camera has performed etc etc. When saving as JPG it leaves only the big standard EXIF common to all cameras. This maybe enough information to help out, but if people know what focus area was selected, which focus mode etc it might make things easier.
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