what's wrong with my pics

Sask2005

Hi

I have a nice digital camera and I take lots of photos. But all my photos are dull, boring and quite normal. What am I doing wrong?

Check out a recent photo:

Thanks
Sask

GraphyFotoz

Well........
Photo's are all a matter of prospective. Then there is also taste. What I might like to photograph might not be of intrest to you.

If your talking about colors looking dull? Try adding some filters to your stash.
I keep a UV on my lens at all times. In the case dull colors put on a Skylight 81A. Tends to add a warming effect to your colors.
In your bike pic a polorizer woulda brightend the sky to a nice blue.

Just my 2cents

Sask2005

oh dear
Thanks - your singature - A photo is only as good as the person behind the box! - means "oh dear - I should give up now - but will try the filters - many thanks.

Karz wrote:

Photo's are all a matter of prospective. Then there is also taste. What I might like to photograph might not be of intrest to you.

If your talking about colors looking dull? Try adding some filters to your stash.
I keep a UV on my lens at all times. In the case dull colors put on a Skylight 81A. Tends to add a warming effect to your colors.
In your bike pic a polorizer woulda brightend the sky to a nice blue.

Just my 2cents

GraphyFotoz

No!
I wasn't hammering you!

Practice....practice......NEVER GIVE UP!!!

XO-Studios

Sask2005 wrote:

Hi

I have a nice digital camera and I take lots of photos. But all my photos are dull, boring and quite normal. What am I doing wrong?

Check out a recent photo:

Thanks
Sask

Only one picture shows, the first mt biker in a turn.

I see several things that make this picture less than what it could be. (in order of magnitude)

1) maybe it is the size, but the mt biker seems slightly OOF
2) post op work, this picture could use some additional contrast and saturation to make it 'pop' a little more, also setting the the black and white point might help (a lot)
3) crop, the bottom part of the front tire has fallen away

So in short, the picture has lots of potential, but needs work.

What camera do you shoot with?

XO,

Nikolai

I took the liberty..
and 5 minutes to play in PS with your picture.

Here's you "original":

Sask2005 wrote:

Sask

Here's what I get out of it:


It's not much, considering the rider was oof and the tire was cropped,
but a couple multiply layers added some blue to the skies and extra radial blur get attention to the man, so the oof can be easily "forgiven" and treated as an artistic attempt to capture the speed..

Just my 0.02 of f/stop:-)

Hope you like it!

Practice! Rome was not built in one day!

Cheers!

GraphyFotoz

Great Job Nik!!!

Nikolai wrote:

and 5 minutes to play in PS with your picture.

Here's you "original":
Here's what I get out of it:


It's not much, considering the rider was oof and the tire was cropped,
but a couple multiply layers added some blue to the skies and extra radial blur get attention to the man, so the oof can be easily "forgiven" and treated as an artistic attempt to capture the speed..

Just my 0.02 of f/stop:-)

Hope you like it!

Practice! Rome was not built in one day!

Cheers!

I like that a lot!!!

geraldfinnegan

question
shoot with fim, if you have a film camera, and don't use any auto settings. it will teach you photography and light, then go back to digital and don't use all the auto settings unless it's for a particualr purpose in a particualr photo. digital is handy and useful as a tool but it's too easy to let the camera and photoshop average all the life out of a scene. if you don't have a film camera, put your digital on manual everything for awhile.
best
jerry

ps i like the shot, you have a good eye-

windoze

i think its a great post processing job, well done!

clap


troy

Nikolai wrote:

and 5 minutes to play in PS with your picture.

Here's you "original":
Here's what I get out of it:


It's not much, considering the rider was oof and the tire was cropped,
but a couple multiply layers added some blue to the skies and extra radial blur get attention to the man, so the oof can be easily "forgiven" and treated as an artistic attempt to capture the speed..

Just my 0.02 of f/stop:-)

Hope you like it!

Practice! Rome was not built in one day!

Cheers!

Sask2005

thanks
I use a Fuli Finepix s7000 (top of the amateur range) and I was sitting in long grass on the side of a hilltop in 70 mile an hour winds in winter - I had my -50 celicus jacket on and was being blow over - it doesn't snow here but was freezing cold. I took the pic using a 5 shot sequence mainly because the other 4 shots were blurred as the wind blew me around. Appreciate your help - good advice - will try this.

S

XO-Studios wrote:

Only one picture shows, the first mt biker in a turn.

I see several things that make this picture less than what it could be. (in order of magnitude)

1) maybe it is the size, but the mt biker seems slightly OOF
2) post op work, this picture could use some additional contrast and saturation to make it 'pop' a little more, also setting the the black and white point might help (a lot)
3) crop, the bottom part of the front tire has fallen away

So in short, the picture has lots of potential, but needs work.

What camera do you shoot with?

XO,

gtc

a tripod will help stabilise your camera in wind etc and it also helps discipline in composition and also levelling of horizons etc

also as the cyclist was barrellng towards you it is hard to keep focus-perhaps next time lock focus on a particular point on the road and wait until he hits that spot and then press the shutter

dont give up either-shoot every day and see how many different kinds of photography that you can try-portraits,landscapes,sports,candid,nudes,infrared,macro,general nature,birds,underwater.....it goes on and on

Sask2005 wrote:

I use a Fuli Finepix s7000 (top of the amateur range) and I was sitting in long grass on the side of a hilltop in 70 mile an hour winds in winter - I had my -50 celicus jacket on and was being blow over - it doesn't snow here but was freezing cold. I took the pic using a 5 shot sequence mainly because the other 4 shots were blurred as the wind blew me around. Appreciate your help - good advice - will try this.

S