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Catherine W
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# Posted: 18 Mar 07 11:34
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Hi everyone!
I'm new to this site and to photography and I was wondering what people thought of these two photos I took in the summer. I'm especially interested in what people think about the use of the clouds in the background.
Thank You!
(I'm not that experience yet, any comments would be helpful!)
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pansa
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# Posted: 18 Mar 07 12:52
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Hi Catherine
Welcome to Woophy. I like your pictures especially number 1 because of the nice shearing light and the warm brown colour of the walls. The sky and clouds are a fine detail. You can further enhance the contrast in the sky with a polarization filter. Keep posting pxs to Woophy.
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soyoban
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# Posted: 18 Mar 07 12:53
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Hi and welcome Catherine.
Clouds are essential in a big blue sky.
They take part at the composition of the picture.
In this case, i like form of these clouds.
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Oscar_
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# Posted: 18 Mar 07 14:52
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Hello Catherine,
first of all Welcome to Woophy. I think you posted some nice first pictures. I agree with soyoban that clouds are important in sky's. They can make a pic.
IMO both pics are a little bit to dark on some places. I tried both pics on Photoshop with shadows/highlights and it worked fine. This feautere in Photoshop can fix this problem. Also other programs have this feautere in it.
But you can learn a lot of Woophy and experience with your camera and software by yourself. I suggest keep up uploading your pics to Woophy !!!
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Dieuwertje
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# Posted: 18 Mar 07 17:21
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Hi Catherine, welcom to woophy, I like your first pict very much, nice colours and the sky is also nice, I agree with the others, a beautiful sky can make the pict so go on, and show more, so you can learn fast.
Greetz Dieuwertje
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AzraU
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# Posted: 18 Mar 07 21:31
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Here are some of my clouds :))))
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pansa
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# Posted: 18 Mar 07 21:41 - Edited by: pansa
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I keep a file of impressive clouds that might be useful to insert with PS in "in principle good" pxs but that lack some clouds. So I also shoot pxs with "worn out" becaue they are easy to replace..
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Dave Moore
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# Posted: 18 Mar 07 23:39
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Nice pictures Catherine, especially the first one with its mix of warm and cold tones, and the angles the wall and clouds draw out.
I find most cameras tend towards over-exposing a scene leaving you with white-out for sky, especially in England where it is often overcast. When I take landscape photos I set my camera's metering point slightly above centre of frame to expose better for the sky and clouds as I find they make the photo far more interesting.
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Catherine W
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# Posted: 19 Mar 07 08:55
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Thanks for the comments! I'm just starting photography, and have just received an old SLR camera so I hope to take more photos in the future! But being part of the "snap and go" generation, I think it'll take a bit of getting used to (and a lot of patience..) I'm starting with black and white photography and our first assignment is "Light". Can't wait to get out and start shooting. Thank again!
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daveb45
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# Posted: 19 Mar 07 20:49
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Just remember take the photo's for yourself not others and regarding experience your eyes are the best lens ever a multi million pixel camera in stereo, you have been shooting pictures from the day you were born-how much experience do you want................snap,good shooting.
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Graaf
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# Posted: 31 Mar 07 09:21
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Good luck Catherine and have fun with experimenting!
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