flutterflies

Up close and personal

I can see why the other guy gave only 2/2 but it is still a image, albeit a pretty gross one.

 

So how did it happen

This image tells a story, a sad one but still, astory non the less. The only thing i would ssay is I would like to have seen the people slightly off centered to the right, but it still is a imapct photo

The birds head is to close to the top of the frame and the shot is out of focus, sorry

3/3

Hi ya Joey,

 

There are a few thing i think that would have made this much better.

 

1st. This is overexposed, although shot on I think from what I can gather, negative film, the whites are to bright. The problem is if you try to print with detail in the white the dark areas will be pure black. So I would have spot metered this, if your camera will do that and metered the white area and opened up 1.5 stops, then used a little fill flash for the dark areas.

2nd. The placement of the bird. If you look back at my eagle shot you will notice that the eye is slightly above the middle of the shot and this is where you want the eye of the subject, above the middle. This one is below and to the left and with the bird looking down it leads the lookers eye back out of the photo. This would have worked though as a vertical and the eye in the top third of the photo, leaving more room on the left for the bird to look into, if you get what i'm saying.

 

I hope this doesn't sound to harsh and helps in some way

 

Here is the pic

I rated this low as I thinks it's underexposed by at least a stop. A dew drop should have a sparkle and that comes from correct exposure. This is to dark. and therefore I have rated it according to the improper exposure I tried to add a bit of exposure in PS to show you

This looks around 1 stop underexposed, probably because you shot it without any compensation.

The rule is for light to open up one stop. Your camera meter would have seen this bright sunlight and tried to render it 18% grey which of course it isn't it's around 1 stop brighter than this and therefore your shot looks underexposed.

 

Nice framing though and a little fill flash or cropping would have got rid of the dark area at the bottom