thomas_turk

fill flash on the foreground.. or a grad ND filter, (foreground more light, sky less)  would have made a more interesting photo.

using the sunset filter.. the horizon nearer the sun should be brighter, the water puddles would be aglow. Why not wait for the light to naturally become great, then just wind up saturation to +3 at vivid?

..a touch of artificial light on the foreground would have made a much more interesting shot. Now it's almost an ethereal feeling.. but with not enough sky.

a fill-flash to light up the foreground mechanical piece?

Swinging  the camera to the left so as not to cut off the left bud  A little more of the open flower in focus. Moving positon of shooter not to get halo in the back of the open petal...would have made the shot more artistic.

The massive over-exposed giant pearl distracts. The colors are too muted for nature. Maybe use 'vivid' and saturation X3, (or use velvia, 175MP) instead of experimenrtal digits.

Blanking off the top 1/3 and the left 1/3 of the photo, makes a tight, meaningful composition. Good capture.

Mid horizon is boring, neither earthy/watery, nor ethereal. No wow factors in subject, lighting, composition. Hill on the left is meaningless, clouds are too strong, the water has not enough ripples, no glorious setting-sun lighting up the side, with saturation cranked up to VIVID.

Tilt camera up next time, so the meaningless foreground is lost, and thus get more of the lovely blue sky. Now  blank-off all 1/2" below the horizon and you notice an ethereal  wow-photograph. Saturation increased in-camera to +3 would give the setting/rising sun more dash.

No sun striking so we don't get the glorious colored plumage and bright head colors.  Distracting scrub should be out of focus. Needs cropping to left and right of the birds, right up to the birds, and  a little above the heads too,  so that the comp. becomes nice and tight, (mask with paper to see this). Then the  camera could have tilted down a bit to show more foreground, to give some dimenion to the shot.  Try setting saturation to+3 and sharpness to 6 for better results, and program that into memory for non-human shooting, on your Mk2.

Mid. horizon is boring. Tilt down camera, ie blank off all  from just above the low stratus  cloud, and you get  a more 'earthy' photograph. Getting closer to the left, leafy  foregound, maybe even getting so close as to render it out-of-focus, would add more 3D depth to the photo.

I see a noisy bunch of vertical and horizontal lines in the top half of the pix. If  you now blank off all from just above the stone wall, where you see the sign, and block off all to the right of the sign, then you get a nice tight composition of.. a bench and a sign. The foreground is OK, as it gives some air to the comp.

is boring, neither ethereal nor earthly. As I, (you), blank-off, crop, all from just below the structure, the composition tightens up, and becomes etherial. The dark blotch at the bottom of the pix is meaningless. Good exposure, but needs a little more saturation ie 81A filter or +3 on digits.

Any tech info would be much appreciated. ie Zuiko 100mm f2.8 at f5.6, 5 seconds etc. Pix needs a bit of camera tilt doen, subject is water reflection. not sky, and some cropping at the edges. Otherwise, super..

for comparison, I would have shot with a superwide, 14mm CV?, placed it almost on the subject, and waited for the light source, sun?, to really light up the lit parts for more detail contrast. maybe I would have also opened to max f and had the distant parts out of focus to give dimension. Now it looks like another rather dull digital using poor optics...

Boring abstract. needs a spot of oomph, like,, a big fly sitting there, or something dropped on, of an opposite color, green...that can be faked, but it would liven up the pix.

How dramatic would have been a splash of red or orange in all that green. You could always fake the shot, with say an orange plastic goldfish or frog, some orange peel etc.. Now its dull dull.

for some life in this shot

As the detail on the underside of the pier is irrelevant, with the camera tilted down to get more of the wavy, abstract reflections, would have made a more interesting shot. We would also have lost half the sky, with that bright distracting sunspot, for an earthier (waterier) feeling.

Composion clear and strict. lighting could have hit the leaves, for strong shadows that would have added dimension and balance. see The Tao of Photography by pro Tom Ang, for balance in a photo. Digitals non-colors and lack of textures didnt help you. Digital still dosnt have the formlas for natures vibrant colors, whatever BS the manufacturers give you..or however much you pay. This on a fujichrome, with top optics, and corect lighting would have been a wow.

Strict clear composition, great background. Poor lighting. Shadows would have given depth and dimesion, then that extra dark in the pix, would have given balance. Digital failed to give us natures brilliant, live colors, and..fine textures. Mediocre optics didnt help.

Composition could be a bit more strict. Blank off the last two or three, coconut trees on the rhs of the pix, and note that that also accentuates the houseyacht. Lighting is dull. If you had some bright sunlight, maybe lighting up the whsite front of the yacht, and then... stopped down two stops for more dark in the pix, you would have had a dramatic photo. See The Tao of photography by pro Tom Ang for balance and harmony in a pix.

If its not a great photo, why didnt you stick a great photo in, so we can constructively comment. What do you expect me to say.. on this badly lit, unstrictly composed, boring subject??

The soul leaves the body, sure, but that is your consciousness. Why would one change ones consciousness just because of a final thought at the moment when we pass across, and leave body. How do you know when you leave boady anyway, you may be asleep/unconscious/comatose for a while. Your writings are not clear. When we re incarnate, if we didnt move enough forward spiritully in this life, we carry on from our last life consciousness, not from a final thought. Photo. Imagine sunlight shining thru the window, and the shot taken 2 stops down for drama, mystery and balance. Now its jut a snapshot, slightly overexposed.

Mid horizon boring. Camera tilted down to lose half the sky would have made a more earthy (watery) shot. The boat on the left doesnt belong in the composition. Blank it off, and half the sky, and see how the composition becomes more strict and clear.