photos with new dslr for c&c

thebaz

was in Dublin today with my new Nikon d50 , took a few quick photos around Trinity and Grafton, its the first 9 photos in my flickr first page pagehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/

any feedback welcome , i am thick skinned :eek:

thebaz

link again

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/

5uspect

I don't like the bounce back of the flash on the statue of Phil Lynott, it makes it look a bit flat. Some of the others could do with some minor straightening levels correction in photoshop, but nothing major. They're all pretty good shots.

All round there some good ideas there but there's always room for improvement. BTW the other shots in your flickr are very nice, what did you use for those?

Experiment with the boket (background blur). Shoot in aperature priority mode with the aperature fully open (small f number). This narrows the depth of field of the lens which gives a pleasing blur which hides a cluttered background and focuses the attention on the subject. Also play with longer exposures on your people/street shots (a tripod is a must here) gives the sense of movement or speed to a shot.

That big rotor sculpture in the green is crying out for a close up at sunset.

Best of luck with the new camera!

Sebzy

Hey Baz

Hmm what sort of comments were you looking for
1. Trinity entrance , Dublin - `Distractions everywhere the people in the background and the shaddow in the foreground.

2. having lunch at Trinity - Nice snapshot.

3. Trinity College Dublin - Lobsided and are the bikes draw the eye away from the figure/subject

4. Getting ready to busk Grafton Street - Subjects and would of looked better shooting in front of them. I think the title should be "waiting to busk again" not getting ready nobody looks to be doing anything. PS they just finished playing and are having a rest look at all the change in the case.

5. Sth Annes street near Grafton street - love the sky just peeping through could of either zoomed in to eliminate the stalls and see more of st annes.

6. Busking on Grafton street - Nice shot how about cropping out those blown highlights on the buildings they're a bit distracting.

7. Grafton street pedesrian rush - Lobsided and a bit too dark for my liking but love the sky and the waning sign.

8. Trinity gate - that giu an the right hand side could be cropped out as it's a picture of the trinity main door but why are you calling it a gate? Oh yea and starting to sound like a broken record but lobsided.

9. Philo outside bruxelles - Highlights blown to the rear and foreground too dark.


Do you shoot in raw if so you may be able to fix the blown highlights up but if not try again.
I would recomend working on you competition skills. It takes a while to learn but it's worth it.

Have a look at http://www.photo.net/learn/street/intro may help

Seb.


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CONMIKE12

You've got some nice shots there in your stream.Keep up the good work.

thebaz

Thanks for the feedback, i have a problem shooting straight , unless with a tripod.
Anyway all shots were on automatic, as still getting feal of camera -- have an Olypus c365 3.2 mp , thats what rest of flikr is .
I didn't touch up any of the snaps, in fact none of my photos in flickr have been, wanted to display what i shoot -- maybe this puritan approach will have to go, and i will start to use some editing tools - anyone use picassa ?

mathias

Some nice shots ,

Heres a tip though , you can keep the frame straight by using your focus marks in the viewfinder as a level , just line em up with a level section of your frame , and use the sides of the frame in relation to a vertical edge also ,
Works for me anyways ,

5uspect

Picassa is an excellent start, if you want there is a 30 day trial version of photoshop available from ftp.adobe.com which I would reccomend you try once you are more confident with editing. Photoshop really is the best editing software there is! You can get a scaled down cheaper version too called elements.

I know what you mean about shooting straight, I need a camera with a gyroscopically levelled sensor!!!

When shooting digital the camera applies a touch up automatically, if you shoot in RAW you can fiddle with this "auto correction" a lot before you create a Jpeg file. Things like White Balance etc can be worried about when you get home rather than when you shoot. Its not really a puritan approach (don't p!ss off the film lovers!)

Don't be afraid to stick that camera into manual and see what happens when you fidlde with exposure and aperature settings, its quite good fun getting to know how your gear works and you can get some completely bonkers (and useless) shots.

thebaz

i tried straightening some of my photos using picasa2 tool, , but some of the sharpness in the photo seamed to reduce . The resolution properties remains the same , but photos seam blurrier , any other picassa users had problem with the straighen tool in picasa ?

5uspect

I'd imagine when you straighten it Picassa saves the file to jpeg again adding more compression to it (i.e. removing information).

Dundhoone

I like the composition and subjects you've shot. I reckon some minor processing could really improve them in the colour/contrast departments.

Roen

thebaz wrote:

Thanks for the feedback, i have a problem shooting straight , unless with a tripod.

Don't get me started! I have to correct all my handheld shots by exactly 1.5 degrees. I must have got one too many bangs on the head.

Tarakiwa

A nice collection of shote.

I agree that a few of them could do with some minor work but over all I enjoyed them.

Keep shooting & kep sharing!

thebaz

5uspect wrote:

I'd imagine when you straighten it Picassa saves the file to jpeg again adding more compression to it (i.e. removing information).

I played around with the straightening tool on a couple of photos , and they must have got very compressed as photos , looked blurred (i was able to reset )... i guess the idea is go easy with it !

One other fact regarding my photos with the nikon d50, they were all taken using the viewfinder , and i had become used/lazy to taking photos with the lcd monitor on my olympus compact -- there is a difference , its easier to capture using the monitor, using the viewfinder will take a bit of time to perfect .

5uspect

the view finder different at first, i'm not sure about the D50 but there are eye extensions for Canons so you don't have to push your nose up against the camera body if it annoying you. When I made the transition from P&S I found getting used to the viewfinder a bit difficult too - but you'll grow to love it.