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Ardmore try-outs
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Hi all,
A few more from Ardmore in Waterford (think there might be two of them!). I am wondering if my composition is improving. It certainly takes me far longer to find the right shot and on this day the sky was not very interesting so I minimized it where i could. Also my humble powershot 570, is this greatly limiting what i can achieve? Keeping the interest.. thats what I find tricky I reckon. Comments help me.
cheers
JamiJami –
Your composition is good but could be further refined. You are also hurt in these images by the rather flat and uninteresting light at the time of exposure. Nothing for that but to go out again when the light is more interesting – towards the beginning/end of the day or before/after storms are great times.In #1, the basic composition is good, and with something going on in the sky could be quite good indeed. The bush in the left foreground isn’t doing anything for you though, I would have recomposed to eliminate it.
In #2, your composition is a bit flat – the horizon is centered and a bit crooked, and the foreground is weak. The curve of the seaweed is a good idea, but it leads you out the side of the image instead of up to the sea. The headland at left looks like a bit of an afterthought – I’d either include more of it or eliminate it entirely.
In #3 the wall leads us along the gravestones nicely and up to the trees at right, however the top half of the image is overexposed (sky is white). I would have excluded the horizon from that image entirely, getting a bit more foreground instead. Also the gorse branch at bottom right is distracting.
I like #4, although the right side again isn’t really adding anything to the image. I’d have gone fully for the field with the hay bales and found an interesting pattern in them.
All of the images are quite flat tonally and could stand some judicious contrast and saturation boosting in Photoshop.
Your camera is probably limiting you less than you think, although if you can’t do exposure correcting in it (not familiar with that model) then it’s definitely going to hurt you in images like #3 where it just gets the exposure wrong.
I hope that helps!
Cheers,
PeterThat was a great critique Peter. It certainly helped me as its very difficult to know where you are going wrong when you have no one to ask, its just hit and miss. Thanks Jamzky for posting the pics for critique it helps us all.
Cora
Hi Peter
Agreeing with Cora, very helpful. I appreciate the detail of your comments. Thanks a lot. Some things to think about and work on.J.
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