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Yeah, lessons learned the hard way.

I figured people wouldn't know what it was and by telling them it's an umbrella, they would think, "oh, that's an interesting perspective of an umbrella."

1/40 sec, iso 800, f/2.8

I should have experimented with more DOF, but with out the luxury of a tripod and being that this was indoors, I didn't have much of a choice. But, I'll got back and try it again. This time with a tripod.

I like the this picture a lot mainly because of the color and

pattern. But are the lines too messy? too confusing to the eye?

Thanks for the comments. Tony, your idea about using an unknown soldiers headstone would work perfectly. To have that and the headstones out of focus in the background would have been a great picture.

I wish there was a way to have the person's name removed from the

picture. I feel a little uncomfortable having it on there, like i'm

intruding on someone's family for the sake of my photography. what

do you think? I really like the photo though, it's one of my better

shots.

I know El Capitan is one of the more photographed places in Yosemite

and it's hard to not be cliche. But I liked how the mist draped the

cliff and the sun just lit the face. Next time I will probably use a

ND graduated filter to bring out more detail in the foreground. It's

a little too dark.

I don't know what these flowers are called, but I just picked up a

pot of them at Target and took some macro shots of them.

This is a sweet picture. How did you get that red in the sky? If you cropped more of the foreground and included more of the sky it would have been perfect.

I was panning, but I'm not sure my flash would have helped becuase he was kind of far. I've never used flash with my 200mm. Maybe i'll try next time. No photoshop, just a little brightening up and increase in contrast.

Does this convey the effect of speed effectively?

Panning practice.

Please Critique. Would using rear sync flash been better for speed

effect?

Please critique. Would it have looked nicer if I filtered out the

color of those lamps?

Please critique.

Please critique.

Please critique. I think the horizontal shot is better than the

vertical one. You can check it out in my folder.

Please critique

Please Critique

Your pictures are great! However on this one, I would have like to see the top of the building in the background. It feels a little incomplete with it cropped off.

You may want to increase your depth of field. the kids facial impression is great, but focused knife takes attention away from it.