cou cou nut.... Trees

[galee]

Had a long drive to Desaru Johor. First initial plan was to shoot sun rise but rained at 6 something till 9am.

Walked around and took some silly pictures at the end. Here is one of the pics. Hope to hear more from fellow SA-s. :)

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[alancheong7]

Me like! :bouncing:
How does it look in colour?

[galee]

Me like! :bouncing:
How does it look in colour?

Yow, thanks for viewing, the original coloured version isn't that good as it was gloomy as earlier was raining pretty badly and another storm is coming. I have got afew more pics of workers pushing out their hire-water scooter on the beach.... very disappointing morning....

For this pic, i think i should adjust the contrast abit deeper and add more noise as personally i think its abit too bright and too clean of a shot... correct me if i am wrong. C&C are most welcome....

[mobbes]

nice pov ... hope you don't mind if I make 2 suggestions. Try portrait orientation to accentuate height & place the sun behind the convergence of the palm fronds rather than in the middle of a frond (easier on the eyes lah)

[noruazumi]

yes, i agree.
the sunlight in the middle kinda harsh for the eye plus it is centred.
so it draw all the attentions to it.
i really like the idea though...
keep sharing ya... :D

[galee]

Hmm...... quite true...... I should have taken multiple shots to justify on the positioning, of camera and from diff angle all together to eliminate the chances of missing some nice frames since I drove bloody far to get to the place... but kinda like too late now... sigh

BTW, thanks for the CnC... keep it coming.... what else I am missing in my composition of the pic .... :rock:

[ckchowov]

Too much grey, add more black.

[galee]

Too much grey, add more black.

Yeah that is what i thought of too... sometimes when i look at this pic on a laptop TFT it looks fine but not on monitor.... accuracy on adjusting the contrast and shadow is not there with a CRT monitor.... is there a way to calibrate the colors?

:cool:

[max]

1. Technical: exposure setting is neither here nor there. Either you expose for the bright area, or expose for the trees.

2. Composition : Messy, the hard graphic lines of the coconut trees do not match the soft lines of the casaurina trees.

3. Overall: This a grab shot but you have the right idea to improve on this type of shots.

Hope this helps

[galee]

1. Technical: exposure setting is neither here nor there. Either you expose for the bright area, or expose for the trees.

2. Composition : Messy, the hard lines graphic of the coconut trees do not match the soft lines of the casaurina trees.

3. Overall: This a grab shot but you have the right idea to improve on this type of shots.

Hope this helps

Thanks maxby....
Points taken. I will try to improve on that. The senario over the place I took this pic is kinda messy allright, having all sorts of trees near to each other. Find it hard to get a good positioning to avoid them in my framing.

I did an expose over the sun (sky going dark... err did I mentioned another storm coming?) :D

I will drop by that area again on my way back to Penang.... its a 4 hours drive away from where I am currently located... lol
Hope I can improve more.

Cheers.

[ckchowov]

Yeah that is what i thought of too... sometimes when i look at this pic on a laptop TFT it looks fine but not on monitor.... accuracy on adjusting the contrast and shadow is not there with a CRT monitor.... is there a way to calibrate the colors?

:cool:

For B&W images, go for CRT monitor. LCD monitor is hopeless in displaying B&W unless the contrast is more than 1000:1. Now new 19" CRT monitor is around RM700~RM900, very very affordable.

[noordin]

For a shot like this, I'd do a tight crop with one or two coconut trees only and hide the sun in the middle of one of the coconut tree. The lighting is too harsh and it'll difficult to do any PP to improve it.

For me a good photo starts even before the shutter is clicked. :D

[galee]

For a shot like this, I'd do a tight crop with one or two coconut trees only and hide the sun in the middle of one of the coconut tree. The lighting is too harsh and it'll difficult to do any PP to improve it.

For me a good photo starts even before the shutter is clicked. :D

Agree... points taken.... Will try to take more time viewing on viewfinder to compose on my future shots....

For B&W images, go for CRT monitor. LCD monitor is hopeless in displaying B&W unless the contrast is more than 1000:1. Now new 19" CRT monitor is around RM700~RM900, very very affordable.

wow, kena poison on cam n lens liao now LCD~~~~ :nosebleed: