2016 Project 52, Third Quarter by Joe/ Joebranko

[joebranko]

For this particular shot I would simply try to fill the frame with the main subject and crop out the extras.

Thanks John:. The objective of this exercise here was to try a composition including foreground and main object but compressed, to make the flag appear close to the trees. Consequently I couldn't crop out the trees. I know they are out of focus and I am hoping for some guidance on how to do this in a shot when I am trying to create compression.

[joebranko]

I I love it. Now the the corrections...

Thanks Izzie, but dont leave me hanging! 🙄.

[joebranko]

Thanks Nandakumar

[IzzieK]

Thanks Izzie, but dont leave me hanging! .

REally I like your shot, the last sentence is a joke...sometimes when you think you got it, someone will come along and ask you to remove this, clone that, crop it this way. If you take the advice too quickly you'd sometimes want to throw the towel in, but if you take it slowly and have time to think again, you'd know they are right and you are wrong and do it your way anyway...got what I mean?

[bnnrcn]

The cropped version works better for me Joe

Hi Dave. Welcome back. Yes a crop at the bottom is certainly doable. Are the bright rocks the ones forming the necklace about 1/3 the way up?😬! I was thinking about maybe about halfway up the shadow at the bottom right.

Here is my take on it:

[joebranko]

.got what I mean?

Yeah. I got it. Thanks for your com ENTs They always encourage me to do better.

[joebranko]

The cropped version works better for me Joe

Thanks Binnur.

[purplehaze]

Sorry, Joe; I haven't been around much this week and so am just catching up. I think John is right and that the problem with your compression shot is the composition. Perhaps you could make a better composition if you shot vertically, or aimed your camera so as to catch trees in the background, if any?

Edit: As far as DOF goes, that is largely a creative choice.

There is quite a good article on lens compression here that you might find helpful. And it looks like the lynda.com video I referred to in my thread might be available for free from here. (Scroll down to the February 29 post and look for the link to the course.)

[joebranko]

Sorry,.

There is quite a good article on lens compression here that you might find helpful. And it looks like the lynda.com video I referred to in my thread might be available for free from here. (Scroll down to the February 29 post and look for the link to the course.)

Thanks Janis; I will have a look.

[joebranko]

Another shot from my favorite beach:

[Shadowman]

Thanks John:. The objective of this exercise here was to try a composition including foreground and main object but compressed, to make the flag appear close to the trees. Consequently I couldn't crop out the trees. I know they are out of focus and I am hoping for some guidance on how to do this in a shot when I am trying to create compression.

Joe,

You can try a method called Deep Focusing but it is usually done with a wide angle lens. You try to get everything in focus by using an aperture of f/16 or there abouts, placing your focusing indicator at least 1/3 from the foreground, and use a tripod if possible. Your focus indicator should be placed on something of interest, your particular flag shot leaves very little to work with but it might eliminate the foreground blur of the trees.

[IzzieK]

Joe, nice view --- is this an early sunrise photo? If you had waken a little bit earlier, you could have caught the redness of the sky. Te sky is a little bit blown up, but it does not distract as much. I also like that wispy part of the cloud where a bit of light shone too.

[CormacD]

Joe, I like your beach early morning shot with the sun up a bit shining through the clouds. As Ozzie says, maybe and hour earlier for more colour then you would need a smaller aperture to bring out the colours and of course a tripod.

[joebranko]

Joe,

You try to get everything in focus by using an aperture of f/16 or there abouts, placing your focusing indicator at least 1/3 from the foreground, and use a tripod if possible.

Thanks John. I will try that.

[joebranko]

Joe, nice view --- is this an early sunrise photo? If you had waken a little bit earlier, you could have caught the redness of the sky. Te sky is a little bit blown up, but it does not distract as much. I also like that wispy part of the cloud where a bit of light shone too.

Thanks Izzie. You are right. Early morning but not early enough. In a few weeks sunrise will be a little later and I will be able to get there before the sun gets above the horizon.

[Wavelength]

New image is so lovely

[IzzieK]

Thanks Izzie. You are right. Early morning but not early enough. In a few weeks sunrise will be a little later and I will be able to get there before the sun gets above the horizon.

When you can get to is, I suggest you use an intervalometer and a tripod of course and shoot every 3-5 seconds to make your life easier when taking sunrises and sunsets. That way you do not miss a single happening. Then you can choose the best lights, colours, etc. Maybe your camera has a built-in intervalometer?

[joebranko]

When you can get to is, I suggest you use an intervalometer and a tripod of course

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That'sa great idea. Thanks Izzie. I will have to get one!

[IzzieK]

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That'sa great idea. Thanks Izzie. I will have to get one!

Does your camera have time lapse in the menu? I used to have one in my D300s...and that camera is ancient...

[joebranko]

iso 400, 55mm, f 6.3, 1/1000"

Not sure why I set the ISO at 400. It was bright enough for iso 200 or even 100, with the aperture opened more.





ISO 400, f8, 179mm, 1250" Don't know much about bird names, but think the one in the air is a sea gull and the one on the rock may be a cormorant?