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| This looks a very professional picture with dramatic mountains and very effective foreground interest. A pity you gave me no background information about it, although you did include a file called "times journal of photography.vcf" that I couldn't open! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Your photo on the left looks more ordinary, with the building perched nearly in the middle of it. On the right, I've tried to increase its impact by moving the building to one of the intersections of thirds. This also brings it a little closer and slightly strengthens the composition. "This is a picture of my husband dressed in a civil war uniform. The original picture was color, but I thought it would look better in sepia tone. So I scanned it and changed it. It is one of my favorites along with another I took with his brother on the other side of the tree. I used a Canon Eos 3 and either 200 or 400 speed film." (Hoefer) |
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| Your photo on the left looks fine in sepia, but you could put more emphasis on your husband, and less on the tree, by framing it as in my version on the right. I think this would look good in either sepia or color. You didn't include your full name so I hope I got it right! "tell me what you think of my pic's , taken with a minolta 303si with an af 100-300mm lens, thanks." (Lisa) |
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| This is is the most striking of the four photos you sent me (which incidentally were huge so rather difficult to handle). I like the dramatic coloring, but the picture might have benefitted from further interesting silhouettes in the foreground, and less dark empty sky. |
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| Your photo on the left would be more interesting if we could see a bit more of the flowers. My photo of the passion flower on the right (that I've taken from the previous page, Your Photos 158, where I used it to make exactly the same point) shows the advantage of using a slightly higher camera angle. "two more one of a humming bird in my tree , and another of the same sunset a little farther down the highway, thanks" |
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| When I first saw your photo on the left, I wondered whether it was a bird or a leaf in the middle of the picture! It needed your message to identify it as a humming bird. You really needed to get a much closer view of it. I realise you probably couldn't do this - but, as it is, I'm afraid the result is only of personal interest. The photo on the right looks a bit of a non-event. There's a lack of dramatic color and foreground framing, and you've got the horizon dividing the picture almost exactly in half. It might be worth having a look at my Brief Summary page. |
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