The East Side

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Very nice shot. Good colours, composition, and interresting light situation. Best regards!

very beautiful..congrats.regards.

Hi Janis - I like what you're doing here. Exposing a still-life with direct sunlight can be tricky - maybe I can help. Do you bracket your shots? And is this full frame or cropped?

So glad you stopped by!

Here is the original, I did crop. Explain Bracket?!

Do you mean to focus...using the brackets? I AM AN AMATURE!!

After looking at the original, I can see that I blew it out too much!

OK, let me have it!

I wanted to let you know that I got the idea from you.

On one of your pictures you stated that it is all about the light.

Anyway, help me.....!

Hey Jan - brackets meaning shooting the scene that the exposure the meter gives you - then shooting 2 additional shots - one, a half f-stop darker than the original shot - and one, a half f-stop lighter than the original exposure ..... 3 shots total. Your camera has an exposure compensation setting - right?

 

Off to work - more laterrrr ... (-;

Ok I'm back .....

 

Well I've had an eye on it for a few days .... pondering. And as far as being an amatuer - well, that makes 2 of us - (-;. I'm glad to see you playing with this type of shot - and you've done well here. I like the depth of field, subject matter, the way you've arranged things in the frame and the window light thru the blinds ............ One thing I've learned - thru mistakes mostly - is cropping too close. Many times I've regreted cropping too tight - but rarely have I regreted zooming (or stepping) back - give the subject matter some 'breathing room'. I'm generalizing of course - but generally give your subject matter some 'breathing room' all around - you can always crop it close later - but you can never 'uncrop' it ............. Two - never have anything 'unrecognizable' in the scene - otherwise the viewers attention is drawn to 'what is that?' - in this case it's the blue vase thingy on the left drawing me to wonder what it is and my attention away from the image .............. Three - 'bracket' your exposures as I mentioned earlier - one of the 3 will always look better than the others - often it's the 'darker' of the 3 exposures .................. Four - Never - and I mean never - ..... take advice from other amatuers. )-;

 

Big Smile ...

 

 

Thank you Ken for all your advice.

It means a lot coming from such a talented photographer.