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Dec 10, 2009 18:25 |  #1

http://i45.tinypic.com​/prcsg.jpg (external link)




  
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Dec 10, 2009 18:59 |  #2

Try posting one picture at a time.


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Dec 10, 2009 19:29 |  #3

here it is... Tell me what do you think of that picture. what I need to do???




  
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Dec 10, 2009 19:49 |  #4

Well first of all, it's absolutely massive and I can't even see the whole image at once on my widescreen laptop.

Secondly, it just looks like an OOF picture of weeds. Nothing interesting. I'd say chuck it and try something more inspiring.


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Dec 10, 2009 20:20 |  #5

It looks like it might be a shot of a reflection rather than the actual plants, but I can't tell for sure. I usually love reflection shots, but this one is too indistinct to really tell what it is. The angle of the shot is a little distracting and makes it harder to recognize what we're looking at.


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Dec 10, 2009 20:23 |  #6

stsva- Yes, it's reflection... I agree with you about the angle. I will work on it.




  
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Dec 10, 2009 20:25 |  #7

I know it's a reflection. But it's so closely cropped that for like 2 minutes I couldn't figure out what on earth it was. But even so, the only thing I can find in focus in this picture is the bottom left hand corner. Which I guess is fine if that's what you're going for. But water itself tends to blur things up anyways.


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Dec 10, 2009 20:28 |  #8

Maybe try straightening it so the stalks are straight up and down, then crop so you get about 25% of the width of the original image, with the in-focus water at the bottom going up to the reflected and indistinct stalks (or turn it upside-down with the clear water at the top and the stalks going down). Here are a couple of examples (the same shot presented two ways):
http://www.pbase.com/s​tsva/image/92663248 (external link)
http://www.pbase.com/s​tsva/image/92701613 (external link)


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Dec 10, 2009 20:43 |  #9

Stsva- thank you for tell me how to do it and the links are very helpful... I will going out again tomorrow. Hope weather's nice tomorrow...




  
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Dec 10, 2009 22:52 as a reply to  @ RookieCanon1986's post |  #10

ITS TOO BIG!!!! Read the sticky about posting photos and size limits.


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Dec 11, 2009 11:07 |  #11

What you have here are two techniques that I find maddening in photographs. One is a picture of stuff reflected in a puddle. This is a -- I can't even call it a technique -- behavior encountered in new photographers. Let's have a show of hands here: how many of us tried this effect when when we first started out? [hand raised]. Second question: how many of us looked at the result and couldn't find anything particularly interesting about it other than making the viewer scratch his or her head and turn the picture upside down, trying to figure out what's wrong with it. [hand raised].

The second maddening thing about this photo is the tilt. I am ashamed to admit that my vestibular system makes too many demands on my mind -- and I give in to it, damn it! Every time! [punches self in the thigh]. It actually tries to perceive things as level. So when I view an image that is tilted, those damn vestibular canals make me think that I should be sliding off the edge of the image, along with all that other gravity-entrained stuff like, duh, water.

Okay, take a slow deep breath. There are times when tilt does make compositional sense. But it has to be with a clear artistic goal in mind. I don't see it here.

I know I'm going to feel abashed by these comments afterward. There's nothing wrong with experimentation. In fact, if we didn't do it, we would never improve. Moreover, there may be people out there who find something exhilarating about images of things reflected in puddles and tilted subjects. So my comments are a personal statement. I encourage the OP to keep experimenting. However, I recommend discarding anything that he doesn't find to be fulfilling.


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Dec 11, 2009 11:30 |  #12

joedlh wrote in post #9177344 (external link)
What you have here are two techniques that I find maddening in photographs. One is a picture of stuff reflected in a puddle. This is a -- I can't even call it a technique -- behavior encountered in new photographers. Let's have a show of hands here: how many of us tried this effect when when we first started out? [hand raised]. Second question: how many of us looked at the result and couldn't find anything particularly interesting about it other than making the viewer scratch his or her head and turn the picture upside down, trying to figure out what's wrong with it. [hand raised].

The second maddening thing about this photo is the tilt. I am ashamed to admit that my vestibular system makes too many demands on my mind -- and I give in to it, damn it! Every time! [punches self in the thigh]. It actually tries to perceive things as level. So when I view an image that is tilted, those damn vestibular canals make me think that I should be sliding off the edge of the image, along with all that other gravity-entrained stuff like, duh, water.

Okay, take a slow deep breath. There are times when tilt does make compositional sense. But it has to be with a clear artistic goal in mind. I don't see it here.

I know I'm going to feel abashed by these comments afterward. There's nothing wrong with experimentation. In fact, if we didn't do it, we would never improve. Moreover, there may be people out there who find something exhilarating about images of things reflected in puddles and tilted subjects. So my comments are a personal statement. I encourage the OP to keep experimenting. However, I recommend discarding anything that he doesn't find to be fulfilling.

I couldn't really have said that any better myself.


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