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Photo of the Day - October 2009
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Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the shot is taken about 15 minutes before sunset. I wish I could have captured the glow of the trees a little better, but I still love the fall colours.
Excellent use of color visualization. The warm tones of the boat hull work very well with the cool blues of the water. A sky has a way of doing what it will and we do the best we can with it. A nice puffy sky is not always what we have to go with. You framed this well. The colors and textures of the foreground take over and prevent the sky from being too prominent. My only question is the rocks on the right. Perhaps they could be cropped out? Well done as usual.
"Color visualization" is a term I just made up. You don't have the ability to "use" colors in a nature scene like this. You must rely on your eye to visualize it in the viewfinder.
Dale
Thanks, Dale. I'd think I'd sooner clone out the rocks than do any cropping. I actually wish there were more of them to give the scene a bit more "middle ground," but that would be more Photoshopping than I'm willing to do. I was shooting with a prime lens from a moving boat, so I couldn't get back any further to get more of those rocks in (I took a number of shots at the time trying to negotiate their presence, and this one was the best I could get).
As for the colors, the complementary scheme was what attracted me in the first place. I'm a sucker for yellow/blue combinations.
took this picture using my Kodak 6.1MP point and shoot camera..always wanted to get a DSLR, but don't know how to use it. .. is there a thread here to teach newbs like me how to use a DSLR, like explanation of exposure, iso, different types of lenses and all those things?
.. is there a thread here to teach newbs like me how to use a DSLR, like explanation of exposure, iso, different types of lenses and all those things?Attachments
Taken this weekend at a Cemetary in Atlanta...
Lovely model, but I'm having trouble reconciling the Bavarian peasant girl look with the Gothic tombstone and the unnaturally warm filter/treatment with the intuited coldness of the stone. The result seems inexplicably disjunctive.
There are a couple of EXIF viewers around. The first link below is for Firefox. It installs as an add-on and allows you to see EXIF data by right-clicking the photo. The second link is for a stand alone program that I have sitting in my Dock. Drag a photo to it from a browser window and it displays the EXIF data. Neither of these work on every photo.
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=exif&cat=all
Stand alone: http://homepage.mac.com/aozer/EV/
Firefox link courtesy of Phrasikleia.
Dale
EXIF Summary: 1/125s f/4.5 ISO50 7.19mm
Any reason you chose a lower ISO over greater depth of field? Both photos look good to me. The reds seem better in the second post. I like the complimentary colors.
Dale
Thanks... I'm not at home right now (and I never look at the EXIF info
), but it was shot with a tripod as the sun was going down... so maybe 1/30sec, or slower...Lovely model, I agree, but I like the tonality and the limited colour range. And the setting I like too; maybe it's like a still from some baffling European art house film...