Easy Exposure - Forum: Travel and Landscape Photography

mscharff on Apartment

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 12:16:34 -0700

Thanks Oksana.

easyexposure on Apartment

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 20:56:23 -0700

Awesome photo! Love the reflection.

mscharff on Apartment

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:42:29 -0700

Moved into an apartment while our house is being built... a picture of the window.

ergig on ruins

Thu, 05 Feb 2015 21:50:31 -0800

Oksana is right, a small adjustment on the Highlights and Shadows in PP should do the trick on both photos. Overall, good pictures for a first timer.

daniela on ruins

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:28:04 -0800

I think the 1st one is underexposed, but there were some advantages on that exposure... I liked very much the green hedges, they jump over the dark green of the grass, like an eyeliner makeup on the eye. It's very nice to see that photo because of the contrast between the dark greens and the lighter ruins. About the second photo I confess I'm not a big fan of photos against the sun but it's a way to go, and if you want to improve more that image just bring up a little bit the shadows to create more drama.

easyexposure on ruins

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:32:29 -0800

Welcome to the forum! Not a bad first try. I actually like both photos. If you know how to use Lightroom, you can try to play with sliders there. To darken the sky and brighten the landscape would be nice. It might work just by bringing highlight slider toward the left and shadow slider towards the right.

intekhab0731 on ruins

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:15:37 -0800

I like the second Image but the sky is over exposed ..... nice work as a beginner....and for tips watch all video of Oksana..... I am sure u will learn from it and improve ur photography skills..............

Bjørn (Madman) on ruins

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:31:43 -0800

I like the second one... the first you stand on the wrong spot.

The sky on the first photo is nice but a bit over exposed on the right.
The sky on the second is blown away due to the sun coming through the "window" in the ruin.
If you had under exposed the second a bit i think it whould be better.
And i whould stand so that i had horizontal and vertical lines on the first.

Bjørn (Madman) on ruins

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:50:33 -0800

What do you need tips for? How to take a pic? where to stand? I dont get it.. Nice photos.

Silky on Lighthouse Man House

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:24:50 -0800

Yes Oksana and Mandrake;
Both are right I find or found the notes of the reazan I did that way all this day I make several or almost all shot in aperture priority to test the lens, I will post others later.
Thanks a lot for the comments

easyexposure on Lighthouse Man House

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:30:54 -0800

I agree with Mandrake, you probably should have used f8 or f11 for this photo. it should be enough to get everything on focus with wide angle lens. When you use Aperture Priority mode, you set your aperture and the camera sets your shutter speed. If you set your aperture to f/3.5, camera set your shutter speed accordingly to balance the light - which in your case was 1/2500. If you would have used smaller aperture, your shatter speed would be slower too.

rajanmukherji on Perspective

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:28:43 -0800

Thank you so much Mandrake, i wanted to include those leaves in the frame but when i stood upright they wold cut off half of the building so i bent down as much as i could without realizing that it would increase the vertical distortion even more ... Thank you for the suggestions , will try them out .

Rajan

Mandrake on Perspective

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:03:19 -0800

rajanmukherji:

This is an example of what you might do with Adobe Photoshop Elements. An inexpensive, but totally usable, alternative to Photoshop. Here, I first straightened the picture a bit and then to correct the distortion, I used Filter-Correct Camera Distortion and the verticle distortion slider. Finally, I adjusted exposure Levels and sharpened the photo with the high pass filter as correcting the distortion does reduce sharpness.

A problem with this is that you lose a portion of the photo. In this case some of the top of the building's center tower. When shooting buildings from ground level it is almost impossible to avoid vertical distortion. It would be good to compose the shot leaving some extra sky which then could be lost in post processing.

Welcome to the forum.

Mandrake

rajanmukherji on Perspective

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:47:51 -0800

I shoot with a Canon 550 d and the shots have been taken with the following settings

1. ] f 20 , 1/160 , ISO 200 , 18~135 @ 18 mm

2. ] f 7.1 , 1/160 , ISO 200 , 18~135 @18mm

Both these images have a perspective issue and other shortcomings . If someone could suggest ways to improve on this please. Thanks ..

Mandrake on Lighthouse Man House

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:50:38 -0800

Patrick... For this, you had a large aperture opening of f/3.5 which, I suspect is the widest you had available. You didn't need it wide open as your shutter speed is fast at 1/2500 sec. A higher aperture setting (smaller opening) would have given you a wider depth of field so that more of the photo would have been in sharper focus. I know that these are the things that are easy to think about after seeing the resulting picture. Not so easy when you are actually taking the shot.

The D500 has settings for Picture Control. If you have your's set to "Standard", you might try "Vivid" for more "pop" to your pictures. You can do this in post processing as well, if you have the time. Do you have a post processing program that you use?

In this photo, I do like the composition and the leading line of the pathway to the building. The two chairs also bring you in and invite you to sit and rest for awhile.

I'd make your logo a bit less conspicuous. It is an unnecessary distraction. It is fairly easy to change it's color depending on the picture so that it blends in with the photo, but can still be read.

Mandrake