Landscapes

[Edwin Harvey]

Thanks for your comment mate & no I'm not a member of the dead tree group on Flickr, but I'll definitely have a look at it.
Cheers.......Edwin.

[Antonio Correia]

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Automatic Function Shutter Speed 1/80 Apperture Value 5.6 ISO 1600 Focal Length 55mm

Please check your settings. Exposure compensation and so on. The same problem again
At the back of your camera look at the histogram.
Your histogram for this picture should look like this.

Way over to the left ! Underexposed again.

Try this: Aperture priority ISO 200. Check if the Exposure compensation / Aperture button is in the middle.
Or just reset your camera !

Try to shoot a scene where the light is more or less even. With neither too much light nor too much shadows. Go outside and shoot a garden for example without sky. Just the bushes and grass. Look for the histogram. Look if it is nicely built. Repeat. Repeat. Until you get the right histogram.
Read this, this and... this

[Light Hearted]

Thank for the advice. Checked the histogram and it is as you have stated. It feels a little like one of my school reports in the 2nd year in Algebra. Form master said I should take up knitting. I think I'll take up knitting. Its clear there is nothing good to say about the photo.

[Antonio Correia]

Thank for the advice. Checked the histogram and it is as you have stated. It feels a little like one of my school reports in the 2nd year in Algebra. Form master said I should take up knitting. I think I'll take up knitting. Its clear there is nothing good to say about the photo.

But there is a lot to learn from it.
When it will be correctly exposed. Only then. Come on. I am pushing you young man ! Do not give up
Do it and do it until you got it ! Do what the old man says (62) !

[Antonio Correia]

But there is a lot to learn from it.
When it will be correctly exposed. Only then. Come on. I am pushing you young man ! Do not give up
Do it and do it until you got it ! Do what the old man says (62) !

I laugh now that I read about your profile
Later I will give you a better and more substancial help.
Please wait until after dinner.
I am sure you will do it nicely. Just wait please ...
I keep laughing

[Light Hearted]

I love you to bits. At least your not indifferent! Dinner always helps and a couple of glasses. Cheers Antonio.

[knobspinner]

A couple of landscapes, both shot with a Canon 5d and 17mm-40mm f4L
The Oregon beach at Manzanita


The Colorado River near Grand Junction, Far western part of the state.

[Vandenberg]

Willemstad NL.

[dje]

Thank for the advice. Checked the histogram and it is as you have stated. It feels a little like one of my school reports in the 2nd year in Algebra. Form master said I should take up knitting. I think I'll take up knitting. Its clear there is nothing good to say about the photo.

John the photo can be rescued a bit even working with the low res jpeg. A better rescue could be done from the original RAW file but the best results are achieved if you get the exposure right when shooting. School master Antonio has given you some good tips so there are no excuses now !!

Cheers Dave

[dje]

A couple of landscapes, both shot with a Canon 5d and 17mm-40mm f4L
The Oregon beach at Manzanita


The Colorado River near Grand Junction, Far western part of the state.

Jim I like the second one in particular. Nice colours. Perhaps the brightness could be wound down a bit and the contrast enhanced a bit.

Cheers Dave

[dje]

Willemstad NL.

I like the first one best, I think it has better composition than the second.

Cheers Dave

PS. That's a mean looking avatar you have.

[Antonio Correia]

Let's see John Davies, if after dinner without any wine - as usual - I can be of any help.
Before dinner and still with some light available I went to the garden and took a picture of my lemon tree. Not any particular crop, nothing special. The lemons are very small indeed
After dinner I set here and made a picture of the back of my camera with the histogram on.

Looking at it we can see that it is not the best one in the Word but it's just fine. There are no picks over the vertical scale (overboard at the top) and all of it is inside it's limits.
I hope I am making myself clear.
In the picture itself there isn't any area flashing. Of course not because there is no overexposed areas. So far so good.
Now let's import this file into the computer and see what the program tell us about it. Normally - as far as I know - the histogram vary a bit between camera an software.

Indeed there is a small difference. However there is on the right side a smaller space dow at the scale and the left side shows us a pick of the blue, probably due to the dark areas in the photo.

Here is the photo with a small treatment of the histogram through the adjustments of levels.
All this has been done in CS5.
I just read that you are using an old lens, with an adapter. Well, that's it. I see what is going on now. (I hope).
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John Davies, shoot in Manual mode if you please.
Tomorrow go outside - or today and shooting at your lamps - and choose 100 or 200 ISO.
Set an aperture of for example f/5.6.
Try to place the mark at the middle of the viewfinder moving the wheel.
That is your problem. You have to adjust the speed according to the exposure or vice versa to a certain ISO.
You must - I said must - work in Manual because your lens doesn't read the contact because it has not contacts !
I just made this photo for you. See the mark in the middle ? Good. That's where it is supposed to be.

I hope I have been of some help and I hope to be able to see a good and nice photo tomorrow.

I am sorry but I don't know how to interpret the coloured histograms but I think it is much the same only the coloured channels are separated.
Which software are you using John Davies ?

[Antonio Correia]

A couple of landscapes, both shot with a Canon 5d and 17mm-40mm f4L
The Oregon beach at Manzanita

The Colorado River near Grand Junction, Far western part of the state.

Jim, both very nice with the colours accordingly if you know what I mean
The first one is better than the other. I do like the curving line on the first but not the missing river on the bottom of the second one.
Perhaps you should keep it or lieve it !
Thank you for posting

[Antonio Correia]

... School master Antonio ...]

I am no school master Dave
I am just committed
Thank you for the compliment

[Antonio Correia]

Can I ask you guys to post one image at a time if you please ?
Thank you

[Antonio Correia]

Willemstad NL.

Well done, out of your usual style.
Perhaps the last one is a bit too redish/orangish, isn't it ? Or is it intentional ?
The first is of course better than the second one
How long was the exposure ?

[Letrow]

[NoCard]

This is the edge of the fishing pond of my neighbour. The little "scarecrow" is there to get the fish accustomed to fishermen being on the bank

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Peter for posting another of your images here
It looks very nice and windy
Well composed the landscape shows a balance between the two path ways and the water

[Antonio Correia]

This is the edge of the fishing pond of my neighbour. The little "scarecrow" is there to get the fish accustomed to fishermen being on the bank

Merci Rob de faire voir votre photo
I think this image is a great contribution to this thread. I mean another one.
I think it is nicely composed and balanced. The scarecrow is placed right there where it should be and the area of the water with the curve of the margin enhances the sky at the far end. The reflection of the shadows on the water also helps the scenario.
However, you have here a bit of lack of DOF. The image is just focused a few meters away and not from the beginning to the end. Well yes, it can be an option and in fact it is. Is it a bit HDR ? A very soft work ?