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Aug 23, 2008 22:34 |  #1

. The following are two I took with the idea of leading lines, but neither are up to what I want to submit:

Mostly there is too much distraction and greenery drawing away fro the main subject.

#1: (just not enough contrast on the man. Growth on right is too dark as is the boardwalk.)

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#2: (this leaves much to interpretation. There is no obvious clear focal point or focus of the lines - which could easily be a person sitting on the end of the slide or just leaving the slide, but there is no person). I just love the way the slide and the stairs make you focus on that point just in front of the slide. I also was upset the slide was over exposed and blown out.

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Aug 23, 2008 23:46 |  #2

Any worthwhile criticism needs to be honest, but brutal is just being nasty, so I hope that you don't get any of that unless it is "brutally honest". ;)

I think that your self-critique is spot on. Exposure control which you mentioned is more difficult in digital than film simply because of the smaller dynamic range of digital.


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Aug 24, 2008 15:05 |  #3

And the way to beat that is to use that Highlight Alert feature and Histogram in your camera.


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Aug 24, 2008 17:14 |  #4

Robert_Lay wrote in post #6169171 (external link)
And the way to beat that is to use that Highlight Alert feature and Histogram in your camera.

I am coming to depend on that more and more.

Anyway, to the OP's premise... leading lines are quite often overlooked, and undervalued, IMHO.


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