My backyard

This spot is about a three minute walk from my back door. Just purchased Lightroom, and I am really liking it so far. Canon T2i and nifty fifty. I like all feedback, even the kind thats hard to hear. Want to get better. Thanks for looking

Pete

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Personally, I would crop off about 10% of the right side (just past the triangular rock), and crop the log out of the foreground. The sky needs to be darkened, and the foreground a bit lighter.

The horizontal banding of the river/bushes isn't great composition. If there are any bushes/trees on the near bank you might try backing away a bit and using them as frames in the lower corners/sides.

You have a nice backyard,... it has great potential.

I think this is a great shot, but would improve with a horizontal crop (2:1 or something like that) and improved natural lighting (such as sunrise / sunset). Sure you'll be back to that spot so keep at it. What about a moonlit shot -- we've got the full moon for another evening, maybe.

Did you manually focus using Liveview, or just use a DOF calculator?

Also, if you Youtube Lightroom you can find some great tutorials. The ones on LR3's Adobe site gave me a great start with LR3, too (Julieanne Kost). I had no idea it was so powerful when I bought it a few months back.

http://tv.adobe.com …ture-with-julieanne-kost/

hows this? different exposure and focus.

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I like the crop but would, perhaps, prefer the focus to be on the mountains. LOL - You can't win, huh.... I was thinking about this shot this afternoon and I'd actually use the kit lens instead of the nifty-fifty for it.

Overall, though, this is very well executed and both are good shots. Also, I think the 50/50 split works here (although some folks might prefer Ye Old Thirds Rule instead.... PaShaw...).

I would like to have such a beutiful backyard.
A fine picture btw.

i like the second crop but prefer the focus as in the first very nice image