** Leigh boy's Pictures ** / Progress
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Which camera and lens are you using? Did you do any PP to this set?
Okay a few pointers to get you going:
The second set of cat pictures are not bad, because you've got down on its level, but the head-on flash has created some unsightly bright reflections from its coat and has it squinting in one. Try using natural light from a window and avoiding the onboard flash until you can pick up a decent flash and reflectors.
With the close up plant images, be careful with exposure because your camera has underexposed the first leafy shot quite a lot. Auto exposure can be helpful, but a bright background can leave your subject underexposed (and vice versa). Experiment with exposure compensation to overcome the camera metering's mistakes. Also, with these close up plant/flower shots be aware of the rest of the shot and be careful that it doesn't distract from the subject with stems crossing over or behind it. Planning your shots can make for a much better result later on! Sometimes you can doctor the scene a bit to help by holding stray plants out of shot (just don't wreck someone's flower bed!). Adding a bit of contrast in postprocessing would help with some of the shots which look a bit flat.
Good start, you'll be improving all the time if you are always thinking about your shots as you take them
The second set of cat pictures are not bad, because you've got down on its level, but the head-on flash has created some unsightly bright reflections from its coat and has it squinting in one. Try using natural light from a window and avoiding the onboard flash until you can pick up a decent flash and reflectors.
With the close up plant images, be careful with exposure because your camera has underexposed the first leafy shot quite a lot. Auto exposure can be helpful, but a bright background can leave your subject underexposed (and vice versa). Experiment with exposure compensation to overcome the camera metering's mistakes. Also, with these close up plant/flower shots be aware of the rest of the shot and be careful that it doesn't distract from the subject with stems crossing over or behind it. Planning your shots can make for a much better result later on! Sometimes you can doctor the scene a bit to help by holding stray plants out of shot (just don't wreck someone's flower bed!). Adding a bit of contrast in postprocessing would help with some of the shots which look a bit flat.
Good start, you'll be improving all the time if you are always thinking about your shots as you take them
Nikon D5200 and the kit lense 18 - 55 no PP straight from the camera
Ok thank you, im taking that on board and then googling the different words you mentioned like exposure, and i just ha a play and found out how to do it , and manually playing making the picture darker / brighter. I was fully aware of the part of the plant that had got in the shot so it made the actual subject harder to see. and that's why i posted it so i can get feed back on that so again thank you. i just put some of the images in to PP and did the auto , tone, color and contrast and it does make a massive difference, i presume this can be a way of correcting the under exposure but harder to correct over exposed pictures?
That's right, post processing is for minor adjustments, bring a good picture closer to where you want it to be. You can't polish a turd as they say, but sometimes you can save an image that your camera got wrong.
Understanding exposure and how it relates to shutter speed, aperture and ISO is probably the most important factor to getting good pictures from your camera. If you nail that, all you need is a good eye for composing the shots!
Understanding exposure and how it relates to shutter speed, aperture and ISO is probably the most important factor to getting good pictures from your camera. If you nail that, all you need is a good eye for composing the shots!
Sorry I missed this, but for future events: Moving vehicles that you want to freeze will require a higher shutter speed, so use shutter speed priority on your camera to set a high enough shutter speed. A more advanced technique is to use a slower shutter speed and pan the camera with the movement of the car passing you. That way the car looks sharp but everything else is blurred, conveying a sense of movement. This takes a lot of practice to nail though!
Static cars: Watch out for harsh reflections and just keep an eye on exposure, especially with black/white vehicles that could trick your camera's metering system.
Static cars: Watch out for harsh reflections and just keep an eye on exposure, especially with black/white vehicles that could trick your camera's metering system.
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Looks like you did a pretty good job with panning in some of those!
I think you cropped the charger too tight. Moving backwards/wider angle and getting the whole car in would have worked better. Like the shot of the yellow monaro, is that straight out the camera/HDR or processed in some way?
I think you cropped the charger too tight. Moving backwards/wider angle and getting the whole car in would have worked better. Like the shot of the yellow monaro, is that straight out the camera/HDR or processed in some way?
Thank you. I was expecting hate on the monaro. I did HDR. It in photoshop . In regards to the cropping, because it was so busy people were in all most every shot so ye.
Having people in the shot really wrecks it for me.