Is this any good?
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Well captured! 
It's good but I think it can be improved so much with better cropping. Personally I'd completely chopped off the left-hand side as I think all these things, e.g. tree, steps etc, make my eyes wonder away from the subjects. I could try and see what I can come up with if you don't mind.
It's good but I think it can be improved so much with better cropping. Personally I'd completely chopped off the left-hand side as I think all these things, e.g. tree, steps etc, make my eyes wonder away from the subjects. I could try and see what I can come up with if you don't mind.
In the spirit of constructive criticism... I like the subject and the feel of what you achieved. If I were critiquing it as my own work, I'd probably say that I need to think more carefully about exposing for my main subject. If that's the car, then I'd say it's a little over-exposed. That's probably becuase you're using matrix (whole scene) metering and the camera has had to come up with an average across a scene with dark shadows and sunlit areas. So either use spot/centre-weighted or recognise the potential issue and use exposure compensation (probably -0.7 or -1.0 - I'm not great at this). I got this out of a mag. a little while ago - basically we need to recognise that cmaeras can't necessarily capture the dynamic range of light that we can and as a result we need to be prepared to expose for our main subject and have other areas either dark or too light. That's without getting into filters, or compsoite images/HDR etc.
As commented above the framing could be strengthened to emphasise your subject and remove the distractions (although I like the tree as a balancing element :-)). Is that your bag on the steps :-)?
If you like the shot enough to keep, and you took this in RAW your exposure may be close enough that you could achieve all the above on your PC (given that going back to re-shoot may not be feasible).
Finally, I don't know whether the woman adds anything - it looks like you've chosen the moment to add life, so that's your artistic decision. My family always say I don't have enough people in my holiday snaps :-) But it might also have looked nice in a peaceful kind of way to have the car with no-one around.
As I say, these are just picking what nits I can in case any of it strikes a chord and might be of use. I don't claim to be able to do any of this myself :-)
Stuart
As commented above the framing could be strengthened to emphasise your subject and remove the distractions (although I like the tree as a balancing element :-)). Is that your bag on the steps :-)?
If you like the shot enough to keep, and you took this in RAW your exposure may be close enough that you could achieve all the above on your PC (given that going back to re-shoot may not be feasible).
Finally, I don't know whether the woman adds anything - it looks like you've chosen the moment to add life, so that's your artistic decision. My family always say I don't have enough people in my holiday snaps :-) But it might also have looked nice in a peaceful kind of way to have the car with no-one around.
As I say, these are just picking what nits I can in case any of it strikes a chord and might be of use. I don't claim to be able to do any of this myself :-)
Stuart
Edited by stuart b on Tuesday 9th January 11:18
Thanks for the comments Stuart.
No its not my bag on the steps
I think I'm going to try and get this printed up, when I do, I will crop the bottom out, so to remove the bag.
I too, quite like the tree on the left hand side.
Nice pics miniman, I love the second one, with the car "hiding".
No its not my bag on the steps
I think I'm going to try and get this printed up, when I do, I will crop the bottom out, so to remove the bag.
I too, quite like the tree on the left hand side.
Nice pics miniman, I love the second one, with the car "hiding".
Edited by alex b on Tuesday 9th January 20:36
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