Comments welcome

views and comments welcome (any tips appreciated)

The composition is too open. You were most likely lense limited here (focal length). I'll attach a crop how I'd offer this for a mag (Of course the original would be enclosed, but a crop for appetizer and teaser.).

Naturally there is a limit for cropping. The mags want to have 300 dots per inch. The same goes for quality prints. Fortunately it is possible to double the original size by iteration in case the original is not unsharp masked and there is adequate natural sharpness.

Thanks for the ideas Juha on this one and the other photo you have cropped it shows me that there is more I can do. I have just got to go out and practice. Don't know about the golden ratio bit, that was a little over my head at the moment like about 3000miles but the one thing you have mentioned is that magazines like 300dpi images. Looking at the properties of all my photos they are 180dpi, for shots that are 300dpi do I need to set the camera to shoot in raw and then will I need any particular software view the images.

 

Thanks you are fast becoming my personal tutor :)

 

Stuart

Actually in jpg-files the dpi figure is just a number embedded in the file for the printer so to say. You can easily change the dpi for jpg in Photoshop (elements) or, I suppose, in Canon Zoom Browser or EOS Viewer utility. Print devices use typically the 300 dpi or something and CRT-monitors are about 72 dpi.

The golden ratio is basically thirds division. Divide the photo in three both horizontally and vertically. The crossing points of the dividing lines are good points for key elements and the thirds lines are good for, well, lines :) There is a long story behind the golden ratio. It's just something that seems to work aesthetically well - also according to mother nature. It can be found almost everywhere. Just google it and study for interest. The exact mathematics is not so - relevant to understand that it's a sort of "magic ratio" often used in arts, architecture and design.