As soon as I saw water was the topic, I knew exactly what I wanted to go capture...Sweat! But it is now two weeks, or more, we have not found the courage on the weekends (I say WE because my husband is going to provide me with beads of sweat for my photo) to go do one of my killer-sprint workouts at sunset. Alas, I will upload a few water-inspired pictures from my trip to Hawaii. I really have this great image in my head of sweatbeads pouring off someone's nose and forehead, the beads in focus and the person and background out of focus with great sunset lightling...so I may try to get it once the fear of the workout pass! 
Oh Yes, All on Nikon D3100 and the pictures info is as follows:
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2.F/5.6, 1/500sec, 200mm
3.F/10, 1/200sec, 200mm
4.F/8, 1/250, 18mm
Stefanie, I can’t get past the 2nd photo, especially the near geometric center of it – gasp, I need to get away for a short while and come back later...
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ReplyDeleteStef, welcome back! Glad to see you here.
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What, pray tell, is that in your second photo!!!lol. I think the signage in the third photo could be attached to your thongman...kind of like a sandwich board!
Alright, I had to get my chin stitched up from it hitting the floor...
So here is the comment section:
the first photo...wow. nice composition. The way you have the footprints leading from the corner to lead your eye into the pic...and the water leads your eye in to the same place.Very nice...
As far as the second pic...the subject just takes over, doesn't it? I really like how you captured the woman looking at him as she walks passed, and the guy beside her NOT looking. funny.
One comment I would make about the pic with the sign. The simplicity of it is nice, and the bike adds interest...AND the horizon is straight, (nice job btw)...the only thing I would change, is how the sign sits at an angle from the side of the frame. That is something that you could fix just by moving to your right a couple steps, and the sign would have been parallel to the frame. It isn't that important, but having the awareness of where you are standing while you shoot can improve an image a lot...sometimes if you move right or left or squatting down or getting up above the fray will make a good shot better.
Back again and a little more composed now…
ReplyDeleteFirst comment is that you obviously have a keen sense of verticals and horizontals, all (and I mean all photos including the “Voldermort/he who cannot be mentioned” are plumb and I personally like that, in fact I often find it distracting otherwise, unless it is done intentionally and with good effect.
The first photo is very serene, interesting, nicely framed (and straight, did I mention that?), and the sky details well exposed as often it is hard to get that dynamic range happening at the seaside. The awkward face on the woman passing by says it all and makes the voldermort photo even funnier, as does the guy who appears to be looking straight ahead and not wanting to turn his head lol. Is that your bike in the background of the 3rd photo?
I like the last photo for a number of reasons, apart from the obvious capture of a full rainbow which can be challenging depending on location and weather conditions…. the rule of thirds is utilised including the rainbow itself, and most of all the fence sign – how clever is that? Did you add the text or is that really what the sign said :) ??
Stef, nice job on your photos... I agree with Paula on your first photo...tracks leading from the corner make it more interesting. Photos like that one are difficult to take when you have a sky full of bright white clouds because you have to choose whether you meter on the white clouds (in which case your earth will be darkened out quite a bit) or metering on the land (in which case your clouds will be washed out. The magic pice of equipment for that is a gradiated neutral density filter. They come in round that screws on the end o f your lens or they come in a square piece of glass that you hold up in front of your lens. It's a gradual change of 2 or 3 or more f stops from top to bottom so you can balance out those white cumulus clouds and the land as well. I will post a couple pics to show you what it has done for me.
ReplyDeleteAs for your second picture...I would say that is your best shot because it evoked the most emotion from your viewers. It reminds me that Confucius say "Man who behave like ass will be butt of jokes." I noticed like Paula did, the look on the girl's face and the man trying to avoid looking at it all. Funny!
The composition of the last picture (rainbow) was very clever. I think my favorite of the set though, is the bike at the break water. Perfect depth of field! Since it is highly focused on the sign it drew my eye there immediately, yet the bike is in focus just enough to make me believe it was your bike and that you rode it out to that place.
Nice work.
I have to remember to move around a bit when shooting to see how the picture changes. I have started to take both vertical and landscape (everytime) to see how each improves the image. So now I need to start moving myself too. I really noticed that many of my pictures are very proportionate....almost TOO segmented (1/3 sky, 1/3 mountain, 1/3 sand...not terrible, but I think sometimes a bit of un-proportionate might be visually pleasing.
ReplyDeleteCraig, my favorite photo is the bike and sign too! I have to remember when I'm taking a photo to move around though and see how the different angles could improve. I'll have to invest in the gradiated neutral density filter (I had read about it, but didn't fully understand the text until I saw the photos), it is amazing the difference it made in the second photo you posted.
Tony, the sign was actually was posted there and I loved it for many reasons (It was at a skydiving airstrip). I think with a few photo shop fixes the 4th picture could be much better, definitely a dull picture.
And I am so happy to share the beach of Waikiki in all of its buns and glory to all of you! :D
That fourth picture is not dull at all. It's a very clever composition.
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