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with comments from Philip Grosset Photos from Dan of Vancouver carried on from previous page: |
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| Your photo on the left is all right, but it might be better to concentrate on the most interesting part of the scene, as I have tried to do on the right. |
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| Here too (on the left) I'm not sure what appealed to you most, and it's a pity that the ship is right in the middle of the picture and that the horizon comes exactly halfway up. On the right, I've tried a slightly bolder composition. |
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| This is the least successful of your photos because you can't really see anything all that clearly. Of course, with a larger print than this, you'd see more - but still not quite enough, I suggest! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Reply from Dan: "First of all let me thank you for your prompt comments. I think I know now what I was doing wrong and I'll try to apply your suggestions as soon as next week on my vacation. Thanks again and all my best." "I took this with my Canon Rebel 2000. It would have been better with color probably but it was at the end of a Black and White roll. I love my daughter's and her best friend's expressions in these photos. I took it on portrait mode and it blurred the background which is what it should be right? I think the local photo store couldn't develop these as well as a home hobby developer who has control. I am thinking of getting the equipment and setting up in a bathroom for fun. Think it is worth it? I love your site and it has been helpful. thanks." (Sue Svancarek, Redmond, WA) |
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| You've managed to catch the girls at just the right moment (and that takes some doing!). It was a very good idea to throw the background out of focus as this concentrates attention onto them. Unfortunately, though, they too are just slightly blurred. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| On the left: another lively photo, even if the hair blown across her face does hide one of her eyes! On the right, I've moved in just a fraction closer so as to position the foreground girl at the intersection of thirds (if you need to, see the explanation at the foot of this page) and to remove some of that empty space on the top right. It no longer looks as though she is in danger of falling down out of the picture. These are both lively and interesting pictures. I doubt if you'd have got any better result by home processing. I must admit a bias here: I've never enjoyed home processing. A better alternative, I say, is to use a good image editing program (like Photoshop Elements) on a computer - and, in that case, you may as well shoot everything in color and decide at a later stage whether you want to reduce it to b & w. On the other hand, if you really enjoy working with chemicals, you may enjoy the actual process of handling the film yourself. "Here's a photo i took recently of the Buffalo, NY City Hall. A great example of Art Deco architecture. Any comments? Thanks again." (Joseph Manna) |
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| This makes it look an impressive building. I presume you used a wide angle setting to cause deliberate distortion (the tapering buildings and the over large buffalo in the foreground), which in this case seems quite appropriate. You've given the sky an unreal-looking but complementary color too, which all adds to the effect. A very unusual but dramatic picture. | ||||||||||||||||||
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