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Hi…decided I’d bite the bullet and put up two pics I took a couple of weeks ago in Trinity College. They are probably quite boring, but I was curious as to how I could improve pictures like these. It was a dull day so I know the sky is very boring looking, but I was concentrating more on composition and trying to find an unusual angle.
I left one in colour (what little there was) and the other I converted to B/W.
Any tips or guidance accepted.
Thanks :D
Well done for making your first post. These both look like well-executed shots. I think I prefer no.1 – you’ve found an interesting angle. I wish his toe wasn’t off, because it terminates the main line into the image.
I think you may have achieved better photos if you’d used a shallower depth of field, but you seem to have a good eye and that’s what really counts.
Thanks Pete. You’re right about the toe. There was a reason at the time but I can’t remember now. I really was more interested in whether I had a good eye for composition, so I’m encouraged by your comments. I am still only learning about things like depth of field and exposure. I’ve ordered a couple of books and have been reading through the site here to try to get my head around it.
Well, I hope someone more expert than me stops by to comment. Remember: 90% perspiration, 10% inspiration.
So they say :D
There certainly is a lot to learn…have been playing around with the different settings on my camera..fairly basic Fujifilm S5600..and even that seems complex to me.
But it’s a great feeling when you get a nice print framed and it’s up there on the wall… :D
There seems to be a lot of Chromatic Abberation (or purple fringing in the second shot) – look at the head of the statue and the back leg of the chair?
Whilst these are not going to win any photographic competition, they are a good starting point in that you seem willing to look for the unusual angle. I’m not sure that you found the best answer to it, but keep asking yourself the same question and you will improve. Practice in photography is just as important as in any hobby or sport.I just did a search for the Fuji 5600 and found this on one of the camera review sites:
“The S5600?s newly designed lens produces excellent results at all focal lengths, with good corner sharpness and minimal distortion.
The only real problem with image quality is something that has plagued just about every Fuji camera I?ve ever seen: massive purple fringing along the left-hand edge of every bright highlight. It is annoying, and robs the S5600 of the superb image quality of which it is otherwise capable.
Verdict
For under ?200 the Fuji S5600 offers big-camera handling in a small and easy-to-use package. It has lightning-fast performance, a good list of features, massive zoom range and amazingly good low-light capabilities. Image quality is generally very good under most circumstances, but how I wish Fujifilm could shake of those damn purple fringes.”I’d read that too before I bought it… but it was still the best camera within my budget. Are there any ways to minimise a problem like that?
Thanks for the comments… :D
Actually I can see it there okay… especially on the back leg, but on my monitor it looks blue. When I read that I couldn’t really see what they were talking about in the samples they provided.
It is fairly simple to remove in photoshop – do a hue/saturation adjustment layer, and select the blue channel. Then sample the blue/purple fringing on your image, and reduce the saturation untill you see it disappear.
Dont let it put you off what sounds like a more than adequate camera! Fuji is great imho.Ross
Right..can see the difference okay. It’s only when you pointed it out that I even noticed it. I don’t have Photoshop unfortunately, but I do have Photofiltre and Picasa which I use for most of my editing, so I’ll check do they have similar tools.
Thanks for that Ross and thanks for the comments..
Robbie
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