First Time Post - Interesting Fellow

[lcupps]

Greeting to all. I'm new to both this forum, and to photography itself. My Dad got me hooked!

This past weekend, our local Ferrari Club made a trip to the VA Retirement Home, to give the residents a thrill ride. I was invited along to indulge my hobby.

This was shot with a Canon 10D, the lens was a 28-135mm, ISO 200, shutter 1/250 and F/ 9.5.

Constructive critique always welcome. I cannot get better if I don't know what I'm doing wrong!:lol:

[Ballen Photo]

Greeting to all. I'm new to both this forum, and to photography itself. My Dad got me hooked! Welcome to the forum, and Kudos to your Dad. ;)

This past weekend, our local Ferrari Club made a trip to the VA Retirement Home, to give the residents a thrill ride. That was very nice of them. I'm sure those older gentlemen appreciated that. :D

Constructive critique always welcome. I cannot get better if I don't know what I'm doing wrong!:lol:
This looks like a fine shot. My best advice to you at this point, is to shoot a LOT, this will help you figure out what style of shooting you like, as well as fine tuning your abilities. When you have specific questions, dont hesitate to ask them. :D
-Bruce

[ayotnoms]

You and your Dad are upstanding citizens. I'm sure the residents got a kick out of it.

I'm not an expert by a long stretch. I can only say what I would try.

Looks like light wasn't a problem so I'd try ISO 100; Av=3.5 or alternatively, Tv= 1/focal length

The objective would be to isolate the subject from the background.

Not that it's that much of a distraction, but the photo would have been better IMO with a blurrier Mom and baby.

Oh, and welcome to the best Canon forum on the net :-)

[Titus213]

Not a bad picture but where do I have to go to get a ride in a Ferrari?:lol:

Welcome to the forums.

[lcupps]

Thank you Balen Photo and ayotnoms for your suggestions. I will keep shooting, and try out the different settings you suggested!


Titus, the Ferraris were pretty to look at, and they sounded incredible, but I think you would have had a better time going for a ride in my Dad's Porsche. Hands down the fastest, smoothest thing out there that day, much to the grief of the poor Ferrari boys. :lol: (not that I'm biased or anything! *lol*)

Thank you again for taking the time to look.

[mgbeach]

This past weekend, our local Ferrari Club made a trip to the VA Retirement Home, to give the residents a thrill ride.

I tried to set up a similar thing with my Ford Festiva club but the retirement home said they were busy that day.

[chell]

Wow what a great face this guy has! I like the play between the lived in face and the (what appears to be ) new racing jacket. I would liked to have seen a slightly tighter crop so that we can see more of his expression. I think this may help in keeping the attention in the frame instead of letting the eye get carried to his right shoulder where the mother and baby are. Only a personal opinion and I'm new to this so forgive me if I speak out of place. Nice sharp photograph though and graet skin tones.

[ProAc_Fan]

Wow what a great face this guy has! I like the play between the lived in face and the (what appears to be ) new racing jacket.

LOL It's easy to tell that you're not a North American. That is an NFL team jacket with the Pittsburgh Steelers logo. ( National Football League)

I also love the image but agree with others that it might be so much nicer with blurring out the Mom and baby in the background. I find them much too distracting. In PS, you could just put a selection around the gentleman, inverse the selection, put a 3 or 4 pixel gaussian blur on that selection and flatten the image.


Mike

[lcupps]

Thank you Mike! I've never tried out the Guassian blur so I'll have to play with that tonight when I get home.

[ProAc_Fan]

Would it be okay if I showed you what I mean?

Mike

[lcupps]

You bet, feel free!

[mvonditter]

Constructive critique always welcome. I cannot get better if I don't know what I'm doing wrong!:lol:[/QUOTE]

It's about bloody time you show us what you can do.:lol:

[ProAc_Fan]

Used the pen tool to put a selection around the subject, then inverted to change the selection to put selection around the outline, added a 4.8 pixel gaussian blur and this is the result.