My ventures into photography. C&C and advice welcome

Brabbinho

Brabbinho

Brabbinho

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Well from reading the state of the forum and competitions threads I thought I would start a thread to put some of my photo's as I take them. Hopefully with your guys critique and advice there will be improvement on display. Well at least that's my hope anyway....

At the moment I have had my DSLR just over a year and what to start taking consistently better shots and develop skills in post to enhance them. My current gear is a D7000 with 35mm 1.8 and 18-200 vr1 lenses with a newly purchased manfrotto 190xprob and 498RC2 combo. At the moment my main interests are landscape and urban scenes but I will look to branch out as I progress.

So anyway enough pre-amble and onto a few photo's. At the weekend I went out with newly bought tripod in hand to capture a few evening shots of Stanedge Edge in the Peak District.

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DSC_3539.jpg by JTFB Photography, on Flickr

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DSC_3481.jpg by JTFB Photography, on Flickr

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DSC_3557.jpg by JTFB Photography, on Flickr

For a first attempt at sunset photo's I am reasonably happy with the outcome, though I feel I will need to purchase some ND filters to improve the exposure of the sky and land. Of the three I like #1 the most perhaps not the best composition but I like how the light is falling on the sheep in the foreground. The second I was quite pleased how the edge leads you through the photo- though I feel it might be better processed in post.

Today I went to have a little go and freezing the movement of water. It was a very grey day so didn't lead to many exciting results, though I think I made decent strides in the technique itself. Here is the one of the results.

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DSC_3593.jpg by JTFB Photography, on Flickr
 
Thankyou for the feedback guys its really useful.

Next time I go out I'll think about where I place the horizon. As you rightly say D.P it splits the attention of the photo to neither one thing or another. I'm only a 15 minute drive from Stanedge so I shouldn't have any excuse to go out and practice.

I'll have another go at processing #4 though the main purpose of today's shooting was to practice exposure lengths etc.

@Amp34 Don't worry about the critique it wasn't harsh at all :) I don't have a polariser for the lens I had on (the 18-200) so will probably invest in one in the not to distant future.

@vail3r your sheep secret is safe with me ;)
 
@ JamesJ I actually have done a stitch but its still a work in progress... I think the sky needs cropping some more. In hindsight it probably needs 1 or 2 more frames to the left and more of the frame containing the ground rather than the sky. With out any ND's though I couldn't get any more to the left as it was pretty much looking into the sun. Anyway let me know what you guys think.

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Stanedge Pano 1 by JTFB Photography, on Flickr
 
You raise a very good point about what is natural or not. I think I originally processed #4 to be quite neutral as my assumption is that is what natural would look like. I'd not really considered that the camera will neutralize the image through WB adjustments and raw processing.

I'm off to load lightroom to see if I can bring it to life a little more :)
 
Went for a walk in Lathkill Dale in the peak district last week. It was a fairly dull day but I was fairly happy with this result. Though looking at it I think I've made it a little overcooked in lightroom. Had another go in lightroom and its now a little muted. Any thoughts on the processing?

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DSC_3621.jpg by JTFB Photography, on Flickr

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Lathkill Dale.jpg by JTFB Photography, on Flickr
 
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The latter, boosted shadows and exposure. Quite pleased with how it came out. You could have a point on number 9. I'll prob review the post on that one
 
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