Advice..

Right.. very new to all of this but have been lurking here for a while..

Basically, I want to try and up my photography and maybe even learn a little editing skills. I run Linux and have played a bit with GIMP.

I have attached a photo which was taken on a camera phone so the quality is rubbish and I apologise for that! Didn't have my camera with me, however was the approach and framework any good? Can anyone recommend a 'better' way to have taken this photo? I was intentionally shooting into the light (well, at angles to it!) in order to try and get that 'faded' look. I have also sharpened it a bit to try and get rid of the 'camera phone' look...

Hugh_C

Deleted User wrote: »

however was the approach and framework any good? Can anyone recommend a 'better' way to have taken this photo?

Not sure what you mean by the framework but the approach isn't bad at all! A better way would be to use your proper camera - not being trite here, it's hard to judge what it might have looked like if you hadn't been using a cameraphone. The cranes sticking into the RHS of the picture make me feel it could have been composed a bit better, but there again, not an easy thing to do with a phone.

Hugh

RealEstateKing

Nothing hugely special.

Tip: Sharpening is more likely to make a bad quality picture like this look even worse.

Thanks - I liked the old dock side though.. it contrasted the new buidlings.. though the cranes don't add much to the shot!

yeah, have an old nikon digital at home that takes nice pictures. I want to get something with a proper lens though!

amcinroy

Firstly, there is no "recipe" to taking interesting photography. It's a very subjective artform.

Bearing that in mind, there are a few guidelines (some people call them rules) that can
help you.

One compositional technique that often works to provide depth in a photo is "the leading line". The good news here is that you have one (the quay). the bad news is that it leads out of frame. Try to arrange your leading line such that it leads you into the photograph rather than out of it.

Other things I that catch my attention are
1. The time/date stamp. Remove that.
2. Uncomfortable positioning of the cranes half-in half-out of frame

The good news is that the exposure looks good considering you are shooting into the sun. Image quality is OK for a camera phone but you really need to be doing something special to make it work as a proper photographic tool.

Andy

amcinroy

amcinroy wrote: »

One compositional technique that often works to provide depth in a photo is "the leading line". The good news here is that you have one (the quay). the bad news is that it leads out of frame. Try to arrange your leading line such that it leads you into the photograph rather than out of it.

That never struck me before!

Cheers for that.

Crash

Aye was gonna say if you turned to the right and got a leading line along the quay, it would also position the cranes better too.

PaulieC

same position with leading lin staying in the picture

Nice shot! Puts my pic to shame anyway!

I see what you mean about the 'leading line'.

Didn't want to make a new thread.

Took these after work today - however someone had pinched the memory card on my camera. Its a little Nikon compact and not really up to taking fast moving dogs!

Any comments on these? No real effort or thought went into them, was too wrecked from fencing all day. However I didn't really know what to do apart from press 'shoot' when the dogs stopped moving for a second!

ThOnda

The first one is very interesting. And the third one as well.
Keep on shooting :-)

Placebo

cambo_gueno wrote: »

same position with leading lin staying in the picture

how long exposure? looks fantastic