A few pictures from a week away.
Discussion
Just got back from a week in the West Country, took a fair number of pictures, and am really starting to enjoy my photography.
I realise my pictures are nothing special, but I am always looking to improve my photography, so looking for feedback please.
Camera is an EOS300d, which I want to upgrade to an 1100d when funds allow:
I realise my pictures are nothing special, but I am always looking to improve my photography, so looking for feedback please.
Camera is an EOS300d, which I want to upgrade to an 1100d when funds allow:
onyx39 said:
Just got back from a week in the West Country, took a fair number of pictures, and am really starting to enjoy my photography.
I realise my pictures are nothing special, but I am always looking to improve my photography, so looking for feedback please.
Camera is an EOS300d, which I want to upgrade to an 1100d when funds allow:
No1 - Don't be afraid to start post processing. Even with basic, free software you can drastically improve your photos. At least sharpen them...I realise my pictures are nothing special, but I am always looking to improve my photography, so looking for feedback please.
Camera is an EOS300d, which I want to upgrade to an 1100d when funds allow:
Exposure is wrong on 2 and 3 but 1 is interesting. It clearly shows the different colour temperatures between the sky and the streetlit foreground. Playing with trails too! If you wanted to reduce the difference between sky and foreground temps you could shoot RAW and process for each. Compositionally I'd lose a bit from the righthand side.
2 is where you need to consider what will happen to the very bright bit in the midst of 'not very bright stuff'. As you can see the highlights have blown... there is zero detail, just white empty space. There are various ways to deal with situations like these.
You can expose for the bright stuff. (several ways of doing this - RTM)
You can bracket the exposure and choose the best exposure in post processing.
You can bracket the exposure and use HDR software to assemble more than one shot. (Hit and miss)
You can bracket the exposure and digitally blend (PITA)
If you end up with the water being good but the rest of the shot being under exposed, it's relatively simple in post processing to 'bring brightness back', but it's impossible to recover areas that have no information to work with.
The only option you have with the shot above (now you're back home) is to do some cloning of the water that isn't over exposed... but it's a faff (and a fib!) and may look crap.
Cameras are pretty stupid and will often get exposures wrong, especially in scenes like '2' ...so you need to step in before you take the shot and show the camera who's the exposure boss.
Oh, and I find reds often under expose. There are clever people on here that will know why. I don't. But they do.
HTH
You can expose for the bright stuff. (several ways of doing this - RTM)
You can bracket the exposure and choose the best exposure in post processing.
You can bracket the exposure and use HDR software to assemble more than one shot. (Hit and miss)
You can bracket the exposure and digitally blend (PITA)
If you end up with the water being good but the rest of the shot being under exposed, it's relatively simple in post processing to 'bring brightness back', but it's impossible to recover areas that have no information to work with.
The only option you have with the shot above (now you're back home) is to do some cloning of the water that isn't over exposed... but it's a faff (and a fib!) and may look crap.
Cameras are pretty stupid and will often get exposures wrong, especially in scenes like '2' ...so you need to step in before you take the shot and show the camera who's the exposure boss.
Oh, and I find reds often under expose. There are clever people on here that will know why. I don't. But they do.
HTH
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