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01/08/2009 10:34:42 PM · #1 |
Hi, i'm new here and i'm really trying to learn, i understand the limits of my camera but i would like to receive more comments on this shot, telling me what i could have done to make it better!
I also wanted to know why i didn't get any comment from the critique club until now...is it normal? Maybe there aren't many things to improve, because my camera is limited, but i wish i could get some opinion from them, just to know how to do better, when i buy a better one (dreams come true :P). |
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01/08/2009 10:49:52 PM · #2 |
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01/08/2009 10:54:27 PM · #3 |
As did I...
In regards to the critique club... Thread
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01/08/2009 11:13:38 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
As did I...
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Derek, thank you for this and the comment!
I really didn't know how to make the focus on the left part look better...i think i may have missed it trying to use the Manual Focus for the first time...Is there a rule or a calculation i can do to know which distance i should use for each case?
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01/08/2009 11:39:37 PM · #5 |
Well, I would say there are two ways to get that in focus: the first one would be to close down your aperture. Your aperture was 2.8, the widest available on your camera. If you were to shoot in Av mode, you could manually choose your aperture, up to F8. At F8, you would achieve a greater depth of field (this will have the effect of necessitating a slower shutter speed, so a tripod or something to rest your camera on may be necessary). If you still aren't getting the DoF you want, you can also manipulate your subject so that they have less depth. In this case, it seems as though the green leaf curves back, and that the center of the leaf is the closest to the lens. If the leaf were flatter, it would occupy a shorter depth of field, so could more easily be completely in focus. At a certain point it is impossible to get everything in focus, because macro shots always have short DoF due to optical properties that I couldn't begin to explain. It isn't always good to have everything in focus, and that is one of the main points of macro- selectively choosing your focus, but I found the texture of the leaf pleasing, so that was why I made that suggestion, and also because I personally needed a title to discern the flower as a flower.
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Also take  yospiff's composition note into consideration as well. But it's hard to pin down what voters will universally consider "good" or "bad composition. There's the infamous thirds rule that is equally admonished and employed, but having a good "grounding point" in a photo as he said is almost universal.
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01/08/2009 11:57:16 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by pedrobop:
Hi, i'm new here and i'm really trying to learn, i understand the limits of my camera but i would like to receive more comments on this shot, telling me what i could have done to make it better!
I also wanted to know why i didn't get any comment from the critique club until now...is it normal? Maybe there aren't many things to improve, because my camera is limited, but i wish i could get some opinion from them, just to know how to do better, when i buy a better one (dreams come true :P). |
I'm no expert either but beings it's a transparency challenge, you might have worked with your sat/desat a little to call attention away from the reddish-brown leaf and perhaps make the green leaf show through more. Maybe desaturate the Red color and pump up the Green by pushing the hue up on Yellow a bit to emphasize green. |
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01/09/2009 12:35:59 AM · #7 |
Thank you all for the comments! I understood when i should use the Av mode on my camera!
And maybe if my centerpiece was one of the objects, and not both, the composition would be better. Like  digifotojo said, maybe i could give more saturation on the green, making it the prime object.
Right?
edit:Oh, ok! Thanks! hehe
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01/09/2009 01:07:27 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by pedrobop:
Thank you all for the comments! I understood when i should use the Av mode on my camera!
And maybe if my centerpiece was one of the objects, and not both, the composition would be better. Like [user]80096[/user] said, maybe i could give more saturation on the green, making it the prime object.
Right? |
To use user tags, put the name of the user, not the user id within the [user] tags. :) |
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