a man working with flowers.

[Catalina]

Here I find the challenge with the colors, to include or not include the pails ? Must I crop the picture?

The man is using something in his head that gives him an unwanted shadow on his forehead and eyes.

Please c &c

Thank you

Catalina

[rudi]

Hi Catalina,
I would be tempted to crop off the bottom, so you don't see the white buckets on your right anymore.

[Shadowman]

Here I find the challenge with the colors, to include or not include the pails ? Must I crop the picture?

The man is using something in his head that gives him an unwanted shadow on his forehead and eyes.

Please c &c

Thank you

Catalina

Use flash to eliminate the facial shadows, however you need to tame the highlights on the flowers and other shiny surfaces.

[benm]

I would try to crop out the foreground, the red table leg on the left, the white pail on the right and then enough of the top to balance the picture. I would also try to recover some of the highlights of the flowers.

[Manfred M]

Catalina - I find that you are too far away from your subject (the man working). There are too many extraneous objects in the shot to take our attention away from the subject; so get closer and see what that does; eliminating the red table on the left and the bright yellow pails too. I would also crop out a lot of the sky and trees as well; if I were to shoot, I would use a wider aperture to throw those out of focus.

Your subject is pretty well in the centre of the image, and compositionally, this is usually not a strong approach. Think about the "rule of thirds" when composing. I've overlaid a grid on your image and done a crop to place the subjects on / near the thirds and placed a couple of the main parts of the image near the nodes where the lines intersect.




I also find your straight out of the camera image a bit flat. The whites are close to being blown out, but the blacks are too gray. I've also applied a vignette to pull the viewer's eyes more into the frame.




The famous photographer, Robert Capa said something along the lines of "if your image is not good enough, you're not close enough". I frequently use this advice when I am out shooting.

[AB26]

Or perhaps:



Avoiding most of the blur on the right.

[Catalina]

Or perhaps:



Avoiding most of the blur on the right.

Thanks for your kind help.

It looks completely different with the changes. I like the man sitting on the left hand of the photo, because when you read, you read from left to right so I tend to look at the photos in this way, so I would look first at the man doing the make up of the flowers then bring my eyes to the hydrangeas on the floor.

It is incredible how much you could improve the composition getting rid of all those objects that were there only to distract the attention.

¡Why I did not step ahead and stand closed to the man? pure inexperience. Not having yet the habit when composing a picture
to look carefully the whole frame.

Thanks all for your help,

Cordially,

Catalina

[Catalina]

Catalina - I find that you are too far away from your subject (the man working). There are too many extraneous objects in the shot to take our attention away from the subject; so get closer and see what that does; eliminating the red table on the left and the bright yellow pails too. I would also crop out a lot of the sky and trees as well; if I were to shoot, I would use a wider aperture to throw those out of focus.

Your subject is pretty well in the centre of the image, and compositionally, this is usually not a strong approach. Think about the "rule of thirds" when composing. I've overlaid a grid on your image and done a crop to place the subjects on / near the thirds and placed a couple of the main parts of the image near the nodes where the lines intersect.


As I have not any idea of post processing I don't know what you are talking about when you said "I applied a vignette, can you kindly explain what is a vignette.I neither have any idea of how to interpret an histogram or to correct the colors tt appears in the original shooting, but thanks a lot grumpy driver.
Cordially,
Catalina


I also find your straight out of the camera image a bit flat. The whites are close to being blown out, but the blacks are too gray. I've also applied a vignette to pull the viewer's eyes more into the frame.




The famous photographer, Robert Capa said something along the lines of "if your image is not good enough, you're not close enough". I frequently use this advice when I am out shooting.

[Catalina]

Catalina - I find that you are too far away from your subject (the man working). There are too many extraneous objects in the shot to take our attention away from the subject; so get closer and see what that does; eliminating the red table on the left and the bright yellow pails too. I would also crop out a lot of the sky and trees as well; if I were to shoot, I would use a wider aperture to throw those out of focus.

Your subject is pretty well in the centre of the image, and compositionally, this is usually not a strong approach. Think about the "rule of thirds" when composing. I've overlaid a grid on your image and done a crop to place the subjects on / near the thirds and placed a couple of the main parts of the image near the nodes where the lines intersect.


As I have not any idea of post processing I don't know what you are talking about when you said "I applied a vignette, can you kindly explain what is a vignette.I neither have any idea of how to interpret an histogram or to correct the colors tt appears in the original shooting, but thanks a lot grumpy driver.
Cordially,
Catalina


I also find your straight out of the camera image a bit flat. The whites are close to being blown out, but the blacks are too gray. I've also applied a vignette to pull the viewer's eyes more into the frame.




The famous photographer, Robert Capa said something along the lines of "if your image is not good enough, you're not close enough". I frequently use this advice when I am out shooting.

[Catalina]

or perhaps:



avoiding most of the blur on the right.

i am going to send this to my family

[Colin Southern]

i am going to send this to my family

Hi Catalina,

Please don't post people's eMail addresses here - all that will happen is the addresses will get picked up by spam bots and then they'll start getting truckloads of spam (which I'm sure they won't thank you for!).

[RustBeltRaw]

¡Why I did not step ahead and stand closed to the man?

Keep that in mind. Getting closer is sometimes the difference between a clunker and a keeper.