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hi,
I’ve been looking at the boards for some time but this is my first post … & my first attempt at
something that’s not a snap shot!
I have not done any processing on the shots, maybe you could suggest some?
also does the composition work? this is what I generally find I have to work hard at …
much appricaiate any feedback
Thanks
D.Hi DJH.. welcome aboard.
As first attempts at anything other than a snapshot, these are good.
Compositionally, for the first one i would try to crop out most of the ‘lighter rock’ and the grass out of the left and top of the picture. This would have the effect of emphasising those mossy green bolders a bit more, and also give the water a slightly better flow from top left to bottom right. It may also be worth trying to boost the saturation a bit.
I like the waterfall in the second one (It has that nice miky effect). Unfortunately the exposure has not quite been enough to bring out the detail of the rocks around it. It’s quite tricky to balance between dark and light in scenarios like this as it looks like there are no ‘mid-points’ to meter off. I regularly struggle with this myself. You will probably be able to bring the detail out a bit in photoshop if you have it. Have a look at the photoshop section there is some good advice on there about this. However if you are fairly new to photography a better way to learn a bit about how your camera exposes images is to go back to the same place in similar conditions and take a few shots, but meter off different areas in within the image.
Hope this helps
Hello DJH and welcome,
You’ve come to the right place with these. You’ll get loads of friendly positive feedback here.
Although these are a little dark, I can see that you’ve got your exposures pretty much spot on. You given as much expsoure as you could without blowing out the white water, so that’s a great start. All that remains now is to bring out the detail in the darker regions through either a curves adjustment or applying some fill light. I would then boost the saturation a tad to give the greens a bit more life.
With composition, the best way to learn is practice. Also, look at lots of photographs and try and work out why certain arrangements work well.
In the top one I can see that you have arranged the stream to run from top left to bottom right and this is a good start. The eye does tend to like to be led from left to right. But if I were to give you one bit of advice about composition it is that less is more. Keep it simple. Look for strong shapes and lines. More chotic scenes like this tend to look nice on location and can catch the eye but they never translate as well to a photograph.
Good luck with it.
Andy
As mentioned these are very good for a first try.
Also you mentioned they are straight from the camera without any processing.
Personally i think thats all they need.A little bit of work will really bring these shots to life.
A little tip I have found very useful is to allow others to process your shots.
They will show you what they can look like and then tell you how to do on your own
high res shots. I even generated some PS actions based on what some people have
shown me on this site.Mr.H, Andy, Graham,
Thanks a millon for your feedback, I found it difficult to expose correctly on these … I’d love to give the scene another go but the shots were taken in the Dollar Glen near Castle Campbell, Scotland … and I’m now in Kildare :cry: but the originals are in Raw format so I’ll be taking your advise and see what I can do in photoshop without burning any of the detail.
BTW lads, woooo! love your sites …
http://www.garyhawkinsphoto.comthanks for the advise
Dara.
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