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I love the image. The composition is nice and the colours are terrific. The only thing I would have tried different is to take it with a ND filter, so that you can increase the shutter speed and blur the cars away. Nice shot!

I really appreciate your taking the time to comment, all of you. The flatness of the back buildings is far from intentional (I would not know how to do it intentionally :-)!) but I will try your suggestions. I agree it might have been better with a red filter, but I do not have one and I am finding it difficult to find one for my coolpix (damn 28mm thread!). Also agree on the chimenee (I did not see that when I was shooting the pix). Anyway, thanks to you all again, this is really helpful!

A take at the results of the snow storm today, which by the way, was

tremendous. Your comments are highly appreciated.

Somehow, the light on this subject fascinated me and I decided to try

a shot... I am uncertain of the results though... I still like it,

but it is different to what I saw originally. What do you guys think?

 

Tech-data: key ring, in mixture of incandescent (top left) and

natural (front) light; Nikon Coolpix 990; macro; tripod; focal length

12.8mm; shutter 1/6.9; f/6.6; Exp. comp. -1

Another digital take on Nantucket at dusk, this one like 20 minutes

earlier than the previous one, thus with better light. No photoshop

work on this one. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

 

Subject: Nantucket harbour, dusk; Camera: Nikon Coolpix 990,

handheld; Aperture: f/5.5; Shutter: 1/60; Exp. Comp: 0EV

I snapped this one with the last remainings of light. I tried

Ansel's advice of shooting for the shadows and developing for the

highlights (although "development" in this case is referred to the

digital equivalence, since it is a digital camera). The original

result (as expected) was horribly overexposed, and then I pulled the

curves, somewhat equivalent to an N-2 or N-3 at Zone IX, maybe. I

would appreciate your usual thoughful impressions. Thank you for

support as always. Mariano

 

Technical details follow.

 

Subject: Side street in Nantucket island, Cape Cod, MA

Light: Natural, dusk

Camera: Nikon Coolpix 990, handheld

Filters: None

Exposure mode: Aperture priority

Shutter: 1/53.8

Aperture: f/5.5

Exposure compensation: +0.7EV

Your taking the time is really appreciated and your comments are very encouraging. To your questions, yes, it is window light, on a very sunny late afternoon, light was coming in very horizontally. Background is just a normal piece of flat cardboard, not even black (it is the dark brown back of a box, actually), I just threw it out of focus. I placed the flower on a clip holder (you know the type that is sometimes used to put pictures on, basically a heavy base and a piece of metal wire that has a clip on the end), and hide it behind the petals, that is why it seems to be floating on air. Thanks again for taking the time and for your comments.

Nice shot, by the way. I love the color an particularly the contrast with the blue windows.

Daisy on natural light, cardboard background.

Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 990, uv filter, tripod.

Image quality: fine

Exposure mode: aperture priority

Focal length: 12.7 mm (x1)

Shutter speed: 1/3.1

Aperture: f/8.2

Exposure compensation: +1EV

 

As usual, your thoughtful comments are welcomed and appreciated.

I grabbed this shot the other night, probably one of the last

snowfalls of this season. It was shot with a Nikon Coolpix 990, 2

seconds at f5 on a tripod. Any opinion is welcomed!

Like the composition. The window adds perspective and a very nice frame. I am not sure I like seeing the end of the window, though (top right triangle)... have you tried cropping it out? Another thing I would try is increasing contrast between sky and the truck. Maybe lowering the curve in photoshop can work, and it may even show some details in the sky, so it would look more interesting.

Your comments are very encouraging. I agree it is too big a file... I just did not realize that when I uploaded, sorry. I also agree it would have been great to have more birds... I did wait a while, but after 20 min or so, this was the crowdest I could get... I am not sure if fill flash would have worked, though, since the bird was pretty far (it was taken with a zoom and the bottom part of the picture was actually cropped, so it seems near, but it is not that near in reality). Thanks to both of you for taking the time!

I do appreciate the feedback. Only survivor is not, of course, the title of the picture... it is just that it was the only shot that I did not have to trash... the picture does not have any title. The reason for using the polarizer was just to use it because it is new, and I thought snow could benefit from less reflection. I agree that it is a dangerous tool, as the rest of the shooting painfully demonstrates. However, in this particular shot, I believe snow did benefit, as it enhanced its texture. I do not get the comment about the rocks being unseparated... sorry for my ignorance, but would you mind explaining what you mean? Is it that the light is flat and low contrast? Thanks again guys for taking the time.

I shot around 15 shots today with my new polarizer. All of them,

except for this one, have some serious defect. I guess I need to

practice more... but what do you think about this one? Should it

follow its brothers and sisters on their way to the black hole?

I shot this one among my first takes with my digital camera. I am

only beginning with photography (couple of months). What do you

think?