Wanting feed back

Took my buddies kit car out and had some fun. Looking for feedback.

All pictures are bracketed shots (7 shots at 1 stop each), and I used PS HDR merge to do some toning and color mapping.

The Vineyard is a slight crop.

Are they over done?
Is there anything that needs fixing?
Are the images weighted properly?


Your not going to hurt my feelings, let me have it

Vineyard was shot with:
7d MKii
Tokina 11-20 (Shot at 20mm and F11)
ISO 100
Shutter varried due to bracket
CPL

Flower shot was shot with:
7d MKii
Canon 70-200 USM IS V2 (shot at 70mm and at F5.6)
ISO 100
Shutter varried due to bracket

Shaun

Shaun Liddy wrote in post #18296408
Took my buddies kit car out and had some fun. Looking for feedback.
Shaun

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I like the way the complementary colors, blue & yellow, make the snake pop out, though it could use a little more sharpening & cropping. Look at this:

Thanks for your feedback.

Here is a place that I know I need to upgrade, my post processing machine/display. I am using a laptop the is well.... Not the best to see the sharpening changes you made. This is also an area where I need to refine my skills, I have not done much sharpening in post.


I originally looked to cropping the flower pic in a 16x9 (looks similar to what you did). The reason I didn't is was trying to follow a more traditional if you will rule with foreground, subject and background; I wasn't sure if there wasn't enough background.


For pulling weeds, I did a lot of that before taking any pictures, made sure to stay clear of the frame as to not make trails When I thought I was done, I took a couple sample pics and pulled even more weeds or broke the stems and lowered the flowers I left a few on purpose, I wanted to try and hide the gravel road as much as possible trying to give the feel the car was literally in a field of flowers. I do wish however that the one right after the collector and coming up to the center of the door were not there. I swear I had gotten rid of them and wonder if they picked themselves back up again. And maybe the one yellow one in the bottom of the quarter.

I have one more I wanted to share but didn't want to break the rules of only posting two. With your permission, I would be happy to add it. It has some pin cushion that I want to learn how to correct (shot at 11mm on the Tokina).


Shaun

Shaun Liddy wrote in post #18296582
Thanks for your feedback.
I originally looked to cropping the flower pic in a 16x9 (looks similar to what you did). The reason I didn't is was trying to follow a more traditional if you will rule with foreground, subject and background;

Rules! Respect them! And then break them if you have a good reason to.

Those are the ones I meant. Sneaky things, aren't they? ; )

Go ahead & attach it. It's OK because I asked. And you could have LINKED 8 images in the first post.

Here is my distorted barn Besides the distortion, I should have addressed the light and sign a little, maybe even balanced the sky some. All things I will try and work on in the future. Haven't had much time learning the PP stuff and man, is there soooo much you can do.

I wish I had not lost my mom a couple years ago, she was an incredible graphic designer and new PS and Adobe Illustrator (among other software geared toward printing) like the back of her hand. She was doing the greater majority of wine labels for the Napa area among many other things. I remember in 2002ish, she was helping the PS team resolve some issues she found and also teaching them a few things they didn't know (shortcuts etc.) They were talking to her about doing some form of seminar. She had previously owned a couple design and printing companies and understood the color print process and what needed to be done for excellent prints. And man, her charcoal drawings she did some 35-40 years WOW..


I don't have a place yet set up for hosting images to provide a link. I really should look in to that

Sorry about your Mom!

Shaun Liddy wrote in post #18296705
Here is my distorted barn

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I don't think it's pin cushion, but wide angle distortion, caused by not having the camera back vertical. The best way to avoid that would be to not get it in the first place, by shooting with a longer lens or from farther away. You can't fix it easily, because fixing it would also "fix" the Snake.

Because of the even color, it might not make a bad background. What's the subject? If I had to title the image now, it would be "Falling barn with a car in the way" ; )

So if I am understanding, if the camera was level both yaw and rotation (I figured you will understand with your automotive background, I do chassis set up), this distortion would not exist or would at least show less?

I may be mistaken, but I thought I had leveled both yaw and rotation using the display on the camera (internal camera level), but perhaps I only did rotation. Tripod was set up holing the camera roughly 18" off the ground.

Again, I appreciate all the info!


Shaun

Shaun Liddy wrote in post #18296727
So if I am understanding, if the camera was level both yaw and rotation (I figured you will understand with your automotive background, I do chassis set up), this distortion would not exist or would at least show less?

Yes, given a lack of defects in the lens.

It can be hard to see unless you have a camera with grid lines. In your case, if the ground was absolutely level, you would need to aim 18" up from the base of the barn. 6' tripod = aim 6' up.
Images for wide angle distortion in real estate

The 7d mkii has a built in level which shows both plains and highlights each separately with a green line when level.

But thinking back on it, I likely only leveled it horizontally. This image was not cropped and the eve is roughly middle frame. Being the camera was 18" off the ground and the eve looks to be at least 6' up, I had to have it lens up.

I think they're over done. Drop the HDR.......just shoot regular pictures. The HDR kills these.....at least for me.