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First Sunsets of March
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Hey guys, I took these few photos when I was out for a walk before I went to my photography course last night. They were taken between 5:45 and 6:15. All were taken with a Canon EOS 1000D slr and 18-55mm lens. The first one was taken at 52mm, f/22, 1/400sec and 1600-ISO and the rest were taken at 55mm, f/36, 1/600sec and 1600-ISO.
All C&C welcome.
Hi Sandra,
I assume you are looking for C&C, so here is my tuppence worth.
I spent 6 hours driving yesterday and therefore had a lot of time for my mind to wander. At one point, I was thinking about sunrise/set photos and what makes the good ones good. I concluded that often, although a photo of a setting or rising sun is pleasent and colourful, on its own or without foreground interest (or context), they can be lacking. On the flip side, taking a photo of foreground interest without the setting sun is more often than not simply a photo of a wet rock or piece of driftwood :)
In short, it is the combination of both elements that make the photo stand out from the crowd.
In these photos, to me they lack the foreground intersest element.
Thanks but in all fairness sometimes just having silhouette photos are nice aswell.! and frankly i think these are nice photos.!
They’re not really silhouettes though, more like black clumps across the bottom of the frame. Anyway, if you like them then thats all that matters really although I would agree also with Bricker!
Like you said though it can be nice to have a silhouette also sometime. If you want to do this though I would recomment trying to find a lone subject like a tree or a person or something like that to use as your silhouette rather than a clump of bushes. They make the pic look like there was no thought put into it.
Also, there was no need to have your ISO at 1600 or your aperture so small. You should use arounf f14 as this should be enough to have everything reasonably sharp in a landscape pic and it would also be a sharper aperture on your kit lens than tiny apertures like f36. If you did this then you would have been able to use f14, 1/80 and ISO 100 on the second shot which would have resulted in no noise in the pic and is a plenty fast enough shutter speed at 55mm to be able to handhold without shake.SandraMcPhotography wrote:
Thanks but in all fairness sometimes just having silhouette photos are nice aswell.! and frankly i think these are nice photos.!
to be honest i’ll have to agree with bricker on every word said, it does depend alot on not only the sunset/rise but the content that the sunset/rise highlights. and frankly the trees are destracting aswell as the houses in the background. on first glance it appeared to be evidently photographs taken whilst out walking although you state you have taken these with an slr 1000D but the snaps look like they have been captured by a non pro small digital point and shot camera.
sorry to be harsh.
can i ask what course you are taking?
Afraid I have to agree with the above critisism that the compositions lack anything of substance to hold you in the image and the low key areas are too dominant in the image with no detail. At the end of the day though what is the beauty of photography is the fact that its subjective every single viewer will feel something different about your image .
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