Thailand Trip

Gun

I'm new here and this is my first post. (Hooray!)
I'm not quite sure if I belong here or not. My camera is just a point&shoots kind. But I still love taking photo as much as the next guy. So mostly I just look toward to tips on composition rather than technical camera settings.

Anyway, let’s see if my friend and I are any good.

We start the day with some noodle soup and dimsum at 7 in the morning. (They have a few dimsum items that I’ve never seen in Chinese restaurant)




Then we went on a 2 hours ride to the island.



Stop for a bit of snorkeling.




Pretty nice beach isn’t it?



Kinda hard taking a picture of the beach, it’s just sea and sand.



Cute critter to keep you company.



Home away from home



Many yacht and scuba liveaboard anchor on the back of the island.



Morning sun





Let’s go snorkeling.





Just another day in paradise



I actually prefer picture with people in it but I have a problem incorporating people without making it look like a boring family photo-ish.
I also just made a personal website to try to collect some good idea for a travel photo.

Chrissiebeez_NL

hi Gun!

welcome to dgrin and great first post!

you have a nice eye for the compositions. i like the one with the rope leading into the frame and the snorkel set on the beach. You were wondering how you can make a beach look interesting, and i think this is the way to go. make the beach a background for something else so the two can help eachother. Works better than the dizzying tilted horizon

you are doing great in giving people room to swim/walk in the photo and i think you should try to not photograph people when they are expecting it and photographing them when theyre not. that gives some more natural poses and genuine character. hope this helps.

greets chris

edit: there are some great books about composition and such as well. brian petersons 'seeing creatively' is nice and i'm about to order 'the photographers eye' which should be good as well.

Moogle Pepper

What a sweet first post!!

I love the flippers shot! Makes me want to go snorkling soon!

fyi, I think most of us dgrinners believe it is the shooter that counts, not the camera. So don't worry if you don't belong here or not, cause you belong here.

javierplumey

Nice first post!

I like the shot that is tilted. If you look at the boat and the way that it's tethered in the water, it almost looks it's the tilt of the picture that's pulling the boat away from the tether. Kind of cool. I don't know if you planned it, but it still looks neat.

Chrissiebeez_NL

haha well now you also see that oppinions differ and you should always do what YOU think makes a nice composition D

Gun

Thank you all for your feedbacks. The cabin shot is actually from my friend camera. he used one of those semi-SLR camera. I took the same shot but was having problem with the focus.

I see what you mean in the tilted picture, i just noticed it too. it might look a bit better if we could see that rope a little clearer.

I wish i could've been there earlier before the tsunami thing. The corals are still recovering.

swintonphoto

I like the last shot best of all. really nice light, color, and composition. Welcome and great shots!

Prezwoodz

I started here with a point and shoot as well. I dont think I take better photos now...there just a little sharper heh.

You did a great job with the photos!

BikePilot

They look like great pics to me