Fall shots

[darkjediii]

Was just out and took a few shots i thought turned out ok. C&C pls.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2004/2035304145_d662a62556_b.jpg


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2388/2036101736_f59f866e75_b.jpg

[dlw3]

DOF (Depth Of Field) is too shallow.
You will get better results with smaller apertures such as f8, f11, f16 and so on, try to keep the ISO at 100 and use a heavy tripod with mirror locked up.

[Ender2309]

agreed. with that much in the frame, a much shallower DOF is needed; there's waay too much out of focus, especially the second one. the first one isn't bad though.

[Robert_Lay]

There is also a pre-dispostion towards tilting the camera down to the right.

In the future, I recommend that you do not use the "Save for Web" tool or whatever it is that is leaving out the EXIF from your image files.

Sometimes (more often than not) the critics can better diagnose the problem when they have the shooting parameters at hand for the shot.

[rammy]

Was just out and took a few shots i thought turned out ok. C&C pls.

I'm presuming that you actually intended to have the shallow DOF and are trying to be creative. If you did then a focal point and less of the scene would have been better, such as isolating a few leaves, pointing down or shooting the leaves on a tree and blurring out the background would be good.

[Radtech1]

I'm presuming that you actually intended to have the shallow DOF and are trying to be creative. If you did then a focal point and less of the scene would have been better, such as isolating a few leaves, pointing down or shooting the leaves on a tree and blurring out the background would be good.

To take what Rammy said, and put it bluntly - the area in focus has nothing worth looking at.

THAT BEING SAID - this is an excellent exercises! Learning how to control your depth of focus is one of the rudiments of becoming a skilled photographer. Because of what you are learning here, when the time comes that there is something truly interesting in your viewfinder you will know intuitively what to do.

You wont have to think back and ask yourself, "OK, now what did they say on POTN? Do I use a big aperture, or a small one? Does a big number mean a big aperture? Or is it the other way around? Oh, hell with it - Green Rectangle here I come!"

In other words, by working on skills development as you are here, you will save yourself from having to post several dozen "Why do all my pictures suck?" posts. So I applaud this, now just work on finding something interesting to point the camera at!

Rad

[darkjediii]

thanks for the comments! I was playing with DOF to see what kind of pics i could come up with. thanks for the tips. I will try to go back to that location and re-shoot.

[flyfisher x]

Just a heads up. I found this out a little while ago. There are specific rules on the size of the image thats being posted. Dont' know how to link to it, but here is the url.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=194511&highlight=Image+Posting+Rules

[Ainoko]

I'm going to step up here and disagree. I think that the second shot is fantastic. The wet leaves on the ground really set a mood for me. It really makes me think of Fall. Coming from Seattle, my falls were never dry. Dry leaves? Never.