the little lady in the lake

binaryknight · 13 Jun 2006 at 14:09

Taken on a good day around castlewellan forest park
disapointed at the sharpness at 100% crop but thats a combination of using to low an f stop and not being happy with my sigma 55 - 200

tempted to call her the golden retrevier

Psilonaught · 13 Jun 2006 at 22:20

i think the first one is charming - noisy as hell though

Sleepyd · 13 Jun 2006 at 22:32

Generally the conditions are dark except for the illumination of the subject.

In this case I think you should have underexposed them a little more to compensate for that, and on the composition side you need to get a little closer (without getting wet of course!)

Charming pics though

binaryknight · 13 Jun 2006 at 22:53

thanks for the comments guys, yeah im not happy about the noise either

was a very good day nice and bright was surrounded by trees so possibly that has added to the darkness and the noise.

The biggest mistake though which really annoyed me was that i had left the camera on iso 800 which is the biggest culprit of noise id imagine.

id have liked to have got closer but was already at the waters edge and fully streached to the 200mm max of the lens

really happy at being there just as it happened though

TRiP · 13 Jun 2006 at 23:07

i like em, the noise helps add an old grainy film feel

cyKey · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:42

TRiP said:
i like em, the noise helps add an old grainy film feel

Except its colour noise rather than grain

It does have a child of the 70's kinda feel to it. If you do decide to remove the noise use Noiseware, it'll clean it up nicely.

BrenOS · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:51

cyKey said:
Except its colour noise rather than grain It does have a child of the 70's kinda feel to it. If you do decide to remove the noise use Noiseware, it'll clean it up nicely.

Exactly what I thought. Very 70s. Nice shot