Bots C&C

Heinrich

After my disastrous seal photo I'll try out this one from the bots. Is there hope for me?

Thoie

Nah, I reckon there's no hope - you should just give me all your camera gear

Composition is better in this one - you obviously took some time to find the spot and view you wanted.

The photo doesn't particularly "do" anything for me - I think the reflection on the glass is a bit distracting. There's a little bit too much going on in the picture for me - I'd try focussing more on one area. Some post processing might help as well (perhaps boosting the colours in the flowers, or, *waves hand vaguely*, doing something to bring up the detail in the tree trunk). I like the picture, but it's not giving me a "wow" feeling.

YogiBear

I assume you've just starting taking photographs.. so, it's a good beginner's photo.
A good idea would be to perhaps start looking at professional photos to see the various standards/ styles etc & to get some ideas. Processing is important too, programmes like Lightroom, Photoshop, Picasso and so on.
I hope you keep taking photos if you enjoy it!

AnCatDubh

Hi, Don't worry we all have 'disasters' - most of us aren't brave enough to post them though

Ok, for the one above - i think you start to show that you can think of composition. I think a lot of the time, the more time you think about what the desired end product of your photography - the more likey you are to get a great shot. Then you also have the situation where you point / shoot and it just turns out great.

In this one i think you've cropped too tight on the subject. A little more space around the edges (wider focal length or further away) would be better. The inclusion of the tree in a scene can work well. As you've done, they are often placed in the foreground but as a compositional element will work in the background too (not practical with the scene you have above obviously). It can work real well if you get something (like a partial tree) that 'frames' your image along one side and the top as you've started to capture above.

The hothouse is a little 'flat-on' for my liking - not sure if that's just me or the angle at which the image is taken.

One of the best pieces of advice i've seen here (i think posted by elven a while back) is to simplify - 'busy' images are difficult for the human brain to assimilate and understand. I think your image above is 'busy' in so far as there is a lot going on - trees, grass, path, hothouse, windows, refections, lamp post, etc.... Perhaps a wider angle may have helped and placed a bit more context on the location.

On the positive side, from what i can tell i think the image is reasonably well exposed as per my uncalibrated screen and the saturation is probably appropriate to the scene (this simply imho).

But the major issue i would take with it is the crop as referred to above. With more space, it would probably have been a reasonable scene.

You're getting there - it (whatever it is) will come with practice and a reasonable dose of luck.

Hope that helps.