Day 5 Recrop of Quakies
by JLC

Comment by Budya:
I definitely like the more than the original. I, too, would have liked to see more contrast.

Day 5- Garden Work!
by JLC

Comment by violinist123:
Are you shooting in manual mode? I am guessing so. The picture is not very sharp and the reason for that is likely the two and a half second shutter speed. You need that shutter speed because the aperture is at F18 so not much light is let in. Besides the obvious downside of a long exposure like that increasing the chance for camera movement, the picture quality itself will start to degrade on a digital camera like the 400D somewhere around F14 or F16 due to light fragementation - some technical thing which I don't remember exactly but Kirbic pontificated on in the forums.

Also if you have photoshop, run a very light smart sharpen over the shot after your final resize. I will usually do something like 50% strength, .03 radius, remove Gaussian Blur - that will tighten things up quite nicely for dpc size images.

Exposure is a bit on the dim side here. Maybe that's your intent.

Could also consider either cropping it so that post on the right is gone or rotating the image so said post is vertically aligned with the side of the frame, keeping the image from feeling/looking tilted.

Day 5- Garden Work!
by JLC

Comment by glad2badad:
Good eye to see this. It's an interesting photo overall. Could use some PP work IMO. Seems dark and somewhat flat (curves/histogram adjustment and boost contrast).

Smile and keep having fun! :)

Yellow Mountain Flower
by JLC

Comment by googooliebaba_m:
Bad sharbnes. and the yellow semms greenish.

Day 5- Garden Work!
by JLC

Comment by roz:
i'm sorry but i cant look at this image without thinking morbid thoughts .. LOVE IT !!! ... probably because of the darkness, with the feeling of night or night time coming on, that the spade and the rake are for some nefarious purpose ... i'm thinking grave digging !!! .. the spade to dig the hole and the rake to make it look entirely natural and untouched afterwards !! .. :)

Message edited by author 2007-09-06 00:28:36.

Day 5- Garden Work!
by JLC

Comment by ordinaryangel:
I think this would be great with a tighter crop of the tools and a big contrast bump. There are alot of fantastic texturees in this shot that need showing off.

Day 5 Recrop of Quakies
by JLC

Comment by pamelasue:
I like the crop better here ... give it a stronger composition ... what editing software do you use? have you tried to bump the contrast and sharpen this a bit? those minor adjustments will probably make this pop quite a bit more ...

Day 5 Recrop of Quakies
by JLC

Comment by BeckyT:
I like the crop you have chosen. This has more of an impact.

Day 4 - Quakies
by JLC

Comment by violinist123:
Assuming this is a crop, I would crop the original so the tree is along the left frame and both rocks are in the frame at the bottom. That would give you a better composition and the eye could move along the rocks.

A small lake on the Mirror Lake Highway in the Uinta Mountains.
by JLC

Comment by pearlseyes:
Very nice reflection. Mirror Lake is so beautiful. I would love to make it up before the weather turns. Nice job.

Message edited by author 2007-09-06 20:16:20.