Your opinions?

Sonea Fifer · 24 Jun 2007 at 15:17

I dont have a gallery or anything and my skill with the camera is quite limited, however after a few problems with the camera this morning (now sorted) I though I'd upload a couple of pics I've has sitting on the memory for for a while:-

Just wondered what your opinions were?

Sonea Fifer · 24 Jun 2007 at 23:27

Hmmmm - 35 views and no opinions given !

Ok I wont give up my day job

NorthstaNder · 24 Jun 2007 at 23:30

It can sometimes take a day or two to get any feedback on photo's, so be patient and the comments will come.

I quite like them. Would like to see them displayed at a smaller size though. Any post processing done? I'd try to darken the silouettes a little and crop the images a little too, whilst keeping the original proportions.

Sonea Fifer · 25 Jun 2007 at 00:20

NorthstaNder said:
It can sometimes take a day or two to get any feedback on photo's, so be patient and the comments will come.

I quite like them. Would like to see them displayed at a smaller size though. Any post processing done? I'd try to darken the silouettes a little and crop the images a little too, whilst keeping the original proportions.

Thank you for the feedback Northstander - as you may have noticed from my only other thread in photography forum my expertise in photography ranks alongside my chances of a date with Jessica Alba

= very poor

Wasn't aware in some cases it can take a few days for opinions/comments. To answer your question - no post processing has been done. If anyone wants to adapt/adjust them then please feel free

Arsey · 25 Jun 2007 at 00:38

I like the idea of both of them, and they make good landscapes, especially the second one because you can see the harbour aswell as the mountains in sunset, so there is a lot to look at. But the second one is overexposed in some places, so it's basically too white just above the mountains.

Heres my attempt at changing the first one, but I'm sure others can do a much better job as I am rubbish at post processing

Can I ask what camera you have?

Nicos Rex · 25 Jun 2007 at 12:13

The difficulty with shots like these is that you are asking a lot of your camera.

The contrast range between sky and ground is so vast that you have no hope at all of correctly exposing it all.

To a degree this can be compensated for in post processing but that has its limits.

This means that you are faced with a choice.

EITHER:

Meter on the sky and let the ground take care of itself and end up as a silhouette. This is pretty much what you have done in your first shot (I suspect more by accident than design). NorthstaNder is right, you need to be more extreme and actually use the exposure lock facility to do this by choice which would leave the ground as a pleasing dark shape and the dramatic sky would have had even more impact.

OR:

Meter on the ground and let the sky heavily overexpose. The very bright part of the sky in the second shot is an example of this approach. Heavy overexposure like this does not usually produce a pleasing result, and in this shot it has sliced it in half with a very bright band with no detail (and probably very little that can be recovered in post processing).

The Mk. I Eyeball can deal with a contrast range many times higher than any camera, and your shots show this very clearly. At the very least this will have been a valuable techical lesson as you will understand better how your excellent eye for a dramatic scene has been let down by the limitations of the medium. The next part of the lesson will be to learn to work within those limitations to produce an image that captures the spirit of what you saw.