C&C please - No judges

Bucket · 28 Feb 2010 at 09:52

Hi Guys,

Struggling with this months comp and what to enter again. Here's just a selection.

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A few may need some tweaking with processing probably, but I just want some quick feedback so I can try and get an entry in today, already have a temp one in which is number 1.

Also these - Which were a bit of fun, we stole our friends teddy for the day and took it on an 'adventure', managed to sneak it back in her bag and have tons of photos of some pretty bad places, going to upload the photos soon and watch her face

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PaulStat · 28 Feb 2010 at 09:57

If you cropped and sharpened no. 2 that could be quite nice.

Bucket · 28 Feb 2010 at 09:58

Unfortunately they are all rather noisy and icky

May try cropping the boat & people out, and also try another crop leaving the boat in..

Bucket · 28 Feb 2010 at 10:07

Few different Crops:

Unfortunately when sharpening it makes the noise so incredibly obvious it's horrid

Scott Salisbury · 1 Mar 2010 at 14:00

I like these. I like the colours you're trying to capture here, with some proper cropage I think they have a lot of potential.

They are very noisy though, were you using a tripod for these compositions or just freehand?

For the next time, if your camera has ISO settings I would recommend dropping the ISO to the lowest value, but in low light like this you will need to stabilise the camera with a tripod or rest it on a wall or something.

Bucket · 1 Mar 2010 at 18:54

Hi Scott,

These were taken using freehand, and on auto ISO. I think it was doing it at about 400.
Unfortunately I'm relatively new to photography, and therefore made the silly mistake of thinking 'Looks alright on the LCD, superb!'.

I'll hopefully go down there again soon, possibly this weekend and try and re-capture it sharper and less noisy. I took them on my 50mm 1.8 also, perhaps shall try a different lens.

Thanks for the feedback, where would you crop them?