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I took some shots today just playing with angles and such. Any suggestions on how I can make my photography better? Don't look so much at the "topics", but at the angles, color, focus, etc...

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I like your ladder shot and the clouds (i like clouds)... the rock would be interesting to me from grass level... maybe tighter on the cross. But that is what I would try:goodvibes
 
OK, I'll take a stab at it.

Pic 1: I like the rock in the grass, but the focus isn't right. Does it look a blurry to anyone else?

Pic 2 and 3: Both nice, I like the angle with the branch. Try a fill flash next time for fun.

Pic 4: I see what you were going for but it's a tough subject. The angle makes it very interesting but it needs to be centered.

Pic 5: My favorite. I like the low angle and DOF you got in that pic.

Pic 6: I like the angles and composition but the focus should be on the zebra not on the structure in the back.

Pic 7: Hard to say a lot about that one. Can't tell where the focus is.

All in all I would say excellent work! It's fun to to try new things and see what happens.

D4D
 

Yea, watch the focus. What kind of camera do you have? Does it have mulitple choices for focus? If you were using a center focus, it seems to be off.

I like the shots other then that, but like someone else said, the focus just seems to be not where I'd expect. (I even went and put my glasses on to be sure :) )
 
OK, I'll take a stab at it.

Pic 1: I like the rock in the grass, but the focus isn't right. Does it look a blurry to anyone else?

Pic 2 and 3: Both nice, I like the angle with the branch. Try a fill flash next time for fun.

Pic 4: I see what you were going for but it's a tough subject. The angle makes it very interesting but it needs to be centered.

Pic 5: My favorite. I like the low angle and DOF you got in that pic.

Pic 6: I like the angles and composition but the focus should be on the zebra not on the structure in the back.

Pic 7: Hard to say a lot about that one. Can't tell where the focus is.

All in all I would say excellent work! It's fun to to try new things and see what happens.

D4D

1 - agreed - rock is out of focus; grass looks like it probably is. Also, just too centered - need to use the rule of thirds

2 - needs fill flash

3 - nice but would up the saturation a bit on the blue/cyan

4 - maybe shoot up at it rather than from an angle. Also, you cut off the tip on one side which hurts it too.

5 - Would prefer it straight on looking up. Out of focus blade of grass is in the way.

6 - favorite subject but need to get focus on zebra. Also, if you could isolate it from other stuff and shoot against a pretty sky, would be super.

7 - agreed on not sure were focus is - try to isolate the flowers from the rest of the scene.

Great job and enjoy seeing people trying different things!
 
you might be interested in this page.
http://www.photozone.de/4Technique/index.html
i just read an interesting article someplace ( always a problem when you can't remember where:rolleyes1 ) that mentioned how it's good to have an area of interest in the fore, middle and background for landscape shots in particular...it reminded me of your ladder shot even though that's not really a landscape i was thinking how with the extraneous stuff like the hoop removed , i wonder what something interesting in the foreground would do for the photo. the example they gave was how much more interesting a shot of a rocky beach and mountain looked with a little bit of the rocky place they were standing on in the foreground, then the rocks and mountain both slightly off centered, the mount. not really dead on the top intersection of the rule of thirds but close... they also mentioned how they walk around the area for a good 1/2 hr before taking the actual shot to just scope it out. course with digital you aren't wasting film but it made me think about moving to the left or right just to see how different a tiny change in perspective would be. if my brain remembers I'll try to post the article.
 
Thanks for all of your input! I am a novice of course so I am learning as I go. Right now, all I have is a Sony Cybershot. GREAT p&s camera, but not going to work well for "serious" photography. BTW - what is DOF?

Interesting that you all liked the Zebra shot. That was already posed that way (thanks to one of my boys playing with it) and I just shot it as is. My dh thought I was crazy for taking a picture of a muddy Zebra toy....lol...and you all liked it best!
 
DOF = Depth of Field. Basically the distance from near objects to far objects that are in focus in the picture.

edit: This shows an example of it.. http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/950/depth-of-field.html
In the pics of the tape measure with the smallest f numbers, when the lens is open the most, as you can see, the foreground and background are out of focus, only a couple of inches of the tape is in focus. Where as the lens gets closed down (the higher the f number) you can see were basically the whole tape is in focus.
 





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