Couple from this afternoon...

DoubleCheese · 21 Jan 2007 at 23:33

Took a few pics at the beach this afternoon with my D50 that I'm getting to know. The pebbles were taken using the kit lense and the baby seal was reached with the Nikkor 70-300mm kit lense. Need a tripod as it was wind as hell!

C&C welcome.

tim_enchanter · 21 Jan 2007 at 23:42

Cool pix,
Where were you to be taking pics of seals?

chenko · 21 Jan 2007 at 23:46

I like the first one, very hard to figure out what exactly it is, I think I have it but still not sure. Pretty unique in my eyes too.

DoubleCheese · 21 Jan 2007 at 23:49

The first one is of the gap between the timbers of the sea defence Groynes on the North Norfolk Coast. The seal colony is at Horsey, a little further down from the groynes.

Mint_Sauce · 22 Jan 2007 at 09:05

I like the first one, would be nice as a picture in a bathroom or similar

The second doesn't do anything for me I'm afraid.

Amp34 · 22 Jan 2007 at 12:19

I'm not really a fan of the first one compositionally, it's a little hard on the eyes, it looks like an optical illusion.

But I can see why others like it.

robertgilbert86 · 22 Jan 2007 at 17:49

They're a bit dark?

I've found the brightness of the D50 LCD to be a little confusing, sometimes it's hard to tell if the image is under/over-exposed. So I set for like +1e and then it's way too bright on the computer!

I personally don't like the crops, I always keep to a 3:2 ratio image, and a boarder does wonders:

photoshop>image>canvas size>relative> 50, 50, for those size images.

DoubleCheese · 22 Jan 2007 at 20:08

The light was really poor in the afternoon hence they look quite dark. Could possibly fix it in Photoshop I suppose.