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Offline chinmay

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Pics from Scotland
« on: July 01, 2012, 06:31:53 PM »
Hi all,
Posting for the first time, for your comments to further learn,
thanks for looking
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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2012, 06:50:18 PM »


  Good but reduce the image size
 

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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2012, 07:57:12 PM »
hi nice pics...

as girish said, reduce the size, say the long side measuring 1000 pixels...

pics are nice but need some cropping..

#1 would look nice with less green and more of the sky, which would make it look surreal

#2 cropping out a portion of the sky would give a widescreen/panorama feel to the photo

#3 is not at all working for me..

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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2012, 08:44:05 PM »
Lovely Images......... Loved second and Third.........

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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2012, 11:15:59 PM »
first and last very nice

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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2012, 05:49:19 AM »
reduce the image size to 200kb, it will be easy to load on slow connections.
« Last Edit: July 02, 2012, 05:51:23 AM by toofan »

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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2012, 11:19:40 PM »
Good shots (=

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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2012, 11:23:16 PM »
nice series  8)
#1 would look nice with less green and more of the sky, which would make it look surreal
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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2012, 01:49:58 AM »
Excellent....+1....Welcome to JJMF....yea reducing size will help straight on screen.
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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2012, 07:09:41 AM »
#1 As others mention that green is overpowering. You need to identity what you want to showcase. Either the trademark green scottish grass or the abandoned building. For me the building seems to be the main subject so I would tone down green and reduce brightness on the green and add light on the building. Did you use GnD filter in this shot? There seems to be a dark band going across the frame. The dark banding wouldn't matter unless it is on your main subject and /or is distracting.

When the main subject isn't properly aligned with horizon, HDR may be a better option to go instead of GnD.

#2: Apart from the blue color sky is rather bland and there is too much vignetting around the corners. Foreground is interesting. I would have kept more foreground in frame and less sky. Secondly the crop at the bottom is distracting. You should have frame complete footstep.

#3: I again see dark band as if GnD was used. You need a polarizer to control the reflections off water. You can also try to work with the scene to use rocks for creating interesting compositions. For e.g. one rock leading eyes to second rock, then second rock leading eyes to water / scenery. It is just an example, you can try to play with the scene.

#4: This is my favorite shot from the lot. The colors are beautiful in the sky. The foreground however doesn't look very interesting. The cracks are taking eyes out of the frame. You could have reduced foreground a little. It would create more powerful image.

Hope it helps. Not to mention, its just my opinion.
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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2012, 07:16:26 AM »
Thanks for all suggestions.. Will keep in mind while posting a few more soon.

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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2012, 07:19:05 AM »
Yes, I have used formatt GND for all shots. One question, what determines the stop of these filters.
I find it difficult to know, whether I need 2 stops or 3 etc.. I am just working on a trial an error procedure checking the histogram.

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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2012, 08:08:52 AM »
Lighting with GND can be tricky, is it a hard or soft GND?
the compos look good.
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Re: Pics from Scotland
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2012, 08:24:32 AM »
On an average digital cameras are able to capture +- 2 - 2.5 stops.

Spot meter (if your camera supports) highlight and shadow areas. For example if your shadow / mid-tone part i.e. the ground is at:

1/25| F8| ISO-100.

And highlight (sky) is at:

1/400| F8| ISO-100.

25 -> 50 -> 100 -> 200 -> 400

This is 4 stop light difference between ground and sky. So to bring the whole scene into camera's dynamic range, you need to use at least a 2 stop filter. In this case using a 2 stop filter will make sky 2 (4-2 = 2) stop lighter than the ground.

You can go ahead and use a 3 stop filter as well. In that case sky and ground will be only one stop apart.

It all depends on how you want your final photograph to look.


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