2 More from England

[karenl39]

Your advice is much appreciated on these photos. I took them with my G5 camera.

Karen

http://webpages.charter.net/blynch45/IMG_0994.jpg


http://webpages.charter.net/blynch45/IMG_1099.JPG

[lucasdigital]

Hello Karen,

I like the first shot, did you use a wide-angle lens? you managed to capture the whole enclosure. Although shots with such formal symetry are usually considered sterile, I think you've pulled it off here.

Although the gate looks very interesting, Its hard for a photograph to capture all the details, I'd have suggested doing close-up studies of some of the sculpture-work.

The forum rules ask for images to be shrunk down before posting, these little beauties, though speezed. make this page a slow loader, plus, because the forum forces the big images into small table cells, they can get a bit distorted.

Try using an image editor to make your images no bigger than 800 pixels in any direction.

Where are these images taken by the way? I see in your web folder you have captured her majesty the Queen... so were these royal grounds?

[karenl39]

Thank you for the compliments. I did use a wide angle lens. My photo of Queen Elizabeth is posted on here, but nobody has commented on it. I also changed the size on the photos so they don't take so long to load. I am fairly new at this, but love photography and graphics. I do a lot of them for our church. The photo of the building was taken at Oxford and the photo of the gate was taken at Shakespear's Globe theater in London.

Karen

[Elbee19]

I always like to preface my comments with the comment I am merely an enthusiast and way short of a pro!

The second photo could be good and probably is good to someone, however I think it would be a bit better if you changed the composition somehow. It's hard to see the focal point of the photo. The sky off in the right and the brick down in the left take away from the gate itself.

In the first photo, the biggest problem with wide angle lenses reared its ugly head...barrelling! I like the composition but the distinct barrelling in the bottom of the photo is distracting...

Again, the fact that you are out taking photos is a huge positive and besides...you obviously have an eye for what to capture!

[malum]

You can always have a crack at correcting the barrel distortion

http://www.e-yaji.com/virtuallyinsane/odds/barrel.jpg

I did that using DCE tools plugin for PS but I'm sure there are many other methods (it's the first time I've used it, I think it did a pretty good job)

Hope you don't mind (had a play with the shadows and highlights as well, and ran it through the digital Velvia actoin)