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JimBoSS

Nikon D70

01/05/2005 05:02:43 AM · #1

Hi all,

i just bought a Nikon D70 on Christmas Eve and was playing around in my backyard and i managed to get what i think is a reasonable shot (for my skill level anyway.)

Before this camera i was pretty much a low end digital cam user and i am still learning the basics of this camera and photography in general for that mattter.

the shot was taken in macro mode. thats about all I can tell you about it as I just pointed and clicked :D

Would just like some feedback/advice on what if anything i can/should do to the shot at this stage to improve it in photoshop.

Cheers
Jim

*** Edit *** Resized image 400k was a touch excessive

Message edited by author 2005-01-05 06:27:45.

jonpink

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2

01/05/2005 05:11:48 AM · #2

Hi Jim

Happy Christmas! Bet you were pretty excited about the D70!

In am usually the first to rip into an image so here goes - to me the shot isn't all that special. In all honestly this is a pretty common location, angle and subject that most people tend to shoot.

When I give my little sister my camera, she always goes out into the garden and fires off shots of flowers - I think because they are colorful and pretty.

If you had taken it in manual mode then kudos and well done for the exposure, although you didn't so no pints there as getting a bad exposure with the d70 is harder to do than not :D

Ways to make th image better would be to have some more detail in the background, or a closer crop in on the flower (at the moment there is a lot of mucky old green space around the flower)

Alternatively, to be more original try getting low and dirty on the floor and shooting from above thus making the flower more dimensional and dramatic.

Or one could use the bright blue sky as the background, further isolating the flower and forcing a nice blue / orange combination - a strong and bold statement.

Or you could have picked up the flower and put it in your sister, wife, mothers hair and shot it there.

Or used it as a prob and got your family cat or dog to smell it.

Just examples of something slightly different to try, which I personally feel is the key to good shot making.

JimBoSS

Nikon D70

01/05/2005 05:15:59 AM · #3

Sounds good, so more creative with the object itself as apposed to worrying all that much with messing the fancy bits just yet.

gotta start somewhere :D

jonpink

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2

01/05/2005 05:18:54 AM · #4

Depends which way you want to tackle photography - some start with the technical stuff like exposure, other hit it on P and start firing away in auto mode.

Just read as many books & look at as many photographs as you can, and then you'll see what works and what doesn't. Then you'll try to emulate something you saw and at some point having the camera in P mode will not suffice then one starts tinkering with manual mode.

JimBoSS

Nikon D70

01/05/2005 05:22:21 AM · #5

Fair point,

I am still pretty new to the whole thing so i'm doing basic training on the technical stuff now.

thanks for the advice.

jim

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