Leap Beach C & C Please

blastman · 6 Sep 2008 at 08:28

Hi all,

I'm very new to all this, but last night me and a good friend (slothmister) batteled the elements to try and some half decent shots.

These are the results (no P & P, just resized)....

1 - I know the camera shake runins it, but it was very windy!! Can any of your clever chaps fix it?? There's a shiny new penny for whoever can help!!

2 - I like this but it's over exposed on the lights in the middle. When taking a shot like this, how can I expose both the fore-ground and back-ground correctly??

3 - I'm not so sure about this. The rocks in the fore-ground are too destracting me thinks. Can anyone tell me the lights have that star thing going on??? What cna I do next time to remove it.

I've have the raw images if anyone whats to play.

Cheers guys!

Mr Jones · 6 Sep 2008 at 08:48

Although slightly over exposed, I like number 2 very very much. The sky is beautiful~

As for number 3, the rocks have to go, orange rocks look too distracting. Maybe crop it off and have kinda panoramic view look instead?

As for number 1 camera shake, can't help on that front. I find the water ripple ring distracting, did someone throw a stone or something?

blastman · 6 Sep 2008 at 08:53

Mr Jones said:
Although slightly over exposed, I like number 2 very very much. The sky is beautiful~

Thanks.

Mr Jones said:
As for number 3, the rocks have to go, orange rocks look too distracting. Maybe crop it off and have kinda panoramic view look instead?

Like this....

Mr Jones said:
As for number 1 camera shake, can't help on that front. I find the water ripple ring distracting, did someone throw a stone or something?

No, the water is about 3 inches deep. The ripples are from the build up of a very small sand bank.

Mr Jones · 6 Sep 2008 at 09:17

blastman said:

Yes - but I'd crop the light off the far right and keep the focus more on the centre.

Edit: and that star like thing is due to long exposure, there is lack of lighting on other section whilst there's a lot more light at the lamp - thus the exposure isn't correct. How to correct it? I'd say lesser exposure but then other area will be under exposed. Long exposure isn't my area maybe others can help. But as it is, I like shot 2 and cropped 3.

blastman · 6 Sep 2008 at 09:19

Job done

Mr Jones · 6 Sep 2008 at 09:23

blastman said:
Job done

Cool~ How do you find it now? It's also about what you think the photo represent, not just about what others think.

You might want to use Flickr or DeviantART or tinypic to host your image, it looks like photobucket have compressed the image somewhat (or is the ISO100 long exposure shot that noisey?)

blastman · 6 Sep 2008 at 09:25

Mr Jones said:
Cool~ How do you find it now? It's also about what you think the photo represent, not just about what others think.

You might want to use Flickr or DeviantART or tinypic to host your image, it looks like photobucket have compressed the image somewhat (or is the ISO100 long exposure shot that noisey?)

it must be the compression cos the raw image I've got looks good.

I'm happy with the photo's I've got. It's just getting it right on the day to produce one I'm truly happy with.

slothmeister · 6 Sep 2008 at 20:07

wow those colours came out better than i thought, shame about the camera shake though.

blastman · 6 Sep 2008 at 20:11

slothmeister said:
wow those colours came out better than i thought, shame about the camera shake though.

yeah we'll have to go back and re-do it. Give me a shout monday. (if the weather's ok...)

slothmeister · 6 Sep 2008 at 20:12

will do!