"He who takes a life...it is as if he has destroyed an entire world....but he who saves one life, it is as if he has saved the world entire" Talmud Sanhedrin 4:5
!Hasta la victoria siempre! (Always, until Victory!)
-Ernesto "Che" Guevarra
#1: The flower needs to be shifted more into the center, and I would tilt the camera vertically. I like the fringe on the petals and the raindrops are quite clear.
#2: It's blurry; the camera's looking at the flowers behind it. I would get closer (if your camera allows it) and make sure it knows what it's focusing on.
#3: Nice landscape, but it's missing something; I want to put a sign on the left to balance out the yellow flowers. Unfortunately, you really can't just rip out a signpost and stick it there, but it does look nice. I like the sky.
#4: Nice! Even though the tree gets a little lost in the foliage around it, it is still very stark against the sky. Try playing with B&W and see what it looks like. A black border would look really good around this.
#5: Mmm...I don't like shots like this. The color's beautiful, but I keep wanting to tilt the camera up to see more. A picture like this is sort of like taking a picture of a flower and cropping out everything but the stem. I want to see the beauty of the WHOLE thing.
#6: Ah, I've done a few shots like this, putting the camera on the tree trunk. It's very interesting and I love the soft moss. The tree spiraling off into the sky is great.
#7: I would rather have the sign on a landscape. Right now it's just a sign; I don't know where it is or why it is there. Pull back so I can see where it is.
What sort of camera do you have? Does it have a macro setting? If you can set it to a lot of manual settings, play around with them. I have never set my camera to Auto because setting it to Auto will give you a good picture, not an artistic one. If you can, mess around with shutter speeds, white balance and the aperture openings. You have potential, and a good eye. Just keep practicing and posting pictures and you will start to learn which sort of shots to stick with and which ones to ditch altogether.
Love the fourth one, although it would be better I think if the tree were off to the right a little bit more and there was a little bit more land on the left.
The other are okay, a few focus problems but ok. But my favorite is definitely the tree that looks like it got struck by lightning =]
#1: This is pretty good, although, personally, I probably would have focused more on the flower, and blurred out hte background. (I don't know if you're using an SLR or not, with a snapshot cam you can't really do that so I understand). Personally, I would have also used b/w bc the flower is such a dull color. I disagree with EBM...the compostition is fine. Completely centering your focal point=bad.
#2: Definately not as good as number one, but still nothing to scoff at. I would have zoomed in more/used a zoom lens for these close in flower shots. Also, while color is a good choice for this one, again, I would have made the flowers more of a focal point, and blurred out the rest.
#3: rather boring, Not much to say honestly.
#4: I really like this one. Not much to say. I absolutely LOVE the composition and use of positive/negative space (thanks in large part to the interesting look of the cloudy sky) I also think this one would be the best in B/W.
#5: same as three.
#6: This is probably my favorite. Great use of space, and really nice composition.
#7: same as 3.
"He who takes a life...it is as if he has destroyed an entire world....but he who saves one life, it is as if he has saved the world entire" Talmud Sanhedrin 4:5
!Hasta la victoria siempre! (Always, until Victory!)
-Ernesto "Che" Guevarra
These are so good and so full of Nature. I like the angle from which you've shot the moss-encrusted tree branch and that polished driftwood is so eerie!
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Hobbes : What mood is that?
Calvin : Last-minute panic.
The first and fourth are brilliant and so is the sixth to a lesser extent. The second is alright too, though not the best of flowers, but the others didn't really grab my attention.
