Calm Before the storm

Hi all new to the forums hoping to get talking and share experiences.
Im also hoping to get peoples opinion's on some of my photography. Anything will be welcomed good or bad. So i thought i would share my first image through my flickr.
Here it is
http://www.flickr.com …58296846@N05/11​636904785/

Great capture and well done. Also you have some nice captures on flickr

Thanks dan appreciate the reply. I have been posting on facebook but recntly noticed the quality is getting worse so have started the process of added my shots to flckr so there willbe more to cone on there

Not bad. If you're looking for advice:

Your horizon in virtually every shot that has one is off. You can fix it in post, or buy a bubble level that fits in the hot shoe of your camera.
It's not much, but they're tilted. To me, that looks amateurish.
I liked most of the scenes, some of them could have benefited from some leading lines in the foreground.....but if they're not there, they're not there.

I see you have a 6D and it appears you like to shoot landscapes. You might consider getting the 17-40 or the 16-35 if you got the budget. Either one would be a great supplement to your 25-105.


Lastly, do you post process at all? They look a little flat, like they tend to do off the camera. Your photos could definitely benefit from a little tweaking in post. If you turn image editing on I will show you an example using one of your Flickr photos.

You can see an example of a before and after on my Flickr. I didn't really add anything that wasn't there. There was a lot of dynamic range in that scene so I split the difference in the exposure and recovered highlights and shadows in Photoshop, corrected white balance and got rid of some color cast.

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IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …s/37701636@N07/​8729378933

Hi thanks again for the reply. yes i do some post processing but im still new to it. I have only have the programs for about 4 months, so im still learning what looks best for which type of scene/photo. Nearly all the shots you see there were no leading lines anywhere which is a shame for the ones from greece cause i wont be heading back there to spend more time. If you want i could send you the orginal raw file for you to show me they way you would do it.

Heya,

Overall good images.

Criticism: the images are all dark, some under-exposed almost (not quite, but almost), and very flat. Not a lot of pop. That's ok, if there's a lot of contrast to break up the flatness. But with low contrast, you need color to provide that separation. So I would add that to the post processing. Increase contrast, or increase some saturation, or both. I would definitely apply some Levels to get the light right too.

Here's some edits of two of your photos:

Hi thanks for that. I actually had the images looking fairly simaler to the way you edited them but wasnt to sure if I had made to bright so I toned them back down a bit and thought I would get some feedback of them. As I said still learnif the editing side of things so appreciate any feedback. Again thanks for taking the time