This was one of the pix my friend, Direktionless, took during our travelling days to NZ. Taken with an analogue SLR camera, colour tone was clear with just the right amount of lighting.
I don't own an SLR, only a point & shoot, but for a beginner like me, should be good enough.
Now this one below I took during my Pangkor trip, with the hot afternoon sunlight on my right. I can't remember what setting I used after trying out this & that, but it turned out ok in the end.
I need to learn up how to take good night shots, sharp focus with all the right light tones...
6 comments:
looks like u know how to put up 2 pics in 1 postings.. bravo!
haha, this took me like almost 30 minutes to figure out lar...so inefficient!
But how do I attach pix that can be clicked on to be enlarged?
Well done!
Actually, if you click on your picture, it does bring you to a larger version...except for the second one in this post (the afternoon beach one). Dunno why.
Your "point n shoot" is more than adequate to take very good shots..you just need practice mah.
I find that you don't need money to get good shots. The lighting could be perfect, the clarity brilliant, but if it's boring it just won't cut it as a good shot.
Photographic eye. You could be using a cheap instant camera but if you have a developed photographic eye, you can produce attention-grabbing shots.
The beach one is good in terms of colour and composition. Dunno if you realise what you were doing... but why it's visually pleasing has a lot to do with the composition.
Notice the slanting angle of the beach. And the corresponding angle that the trees make in the sky. What would have been better if you had moved to the right just enought to omit the first tree on the left.
As for the first picture, the colour is bit off. Too much blue.
But more significantly, the composition wd be more dramatic if there weren't so much sky...see the cloud formation at that particular time was just bleh. Having them in the picture just distracts from the drama of the mountains.
What I'd do is to crop away the two clouds (cover the top part of the picture with a blank piece of paper to see what i mean) so that the mountains take up a good two thirds of the top half of the photo.
Night shots are a bitch unless you have a very high end good camera, a tripod and preferably an adjustable flash (can point here point there type, or better yet, detachable).
Flash lighting is super ugly, I prefer not to use. But v difficult to get sharp night shots without flash and without knowing how to use manual settings (here's where u really need to understand shutter speed and aperture size)
Oh, sorry, wasnt clear.
The beach photo has good composition because of the complementary angle of the beach to the trees.
It would be improved by cropping.
spot.. cheem man.. when u take photo, u really think of all these?? i anyhow, trigger happy.
Biow - yar, I usually make composition priority cos everything else is beyond my control. :)
Shutter speed lah, aperture size lah...I understand the concept but can't seem to apply it satisfactorily! The technical adjustments I usually make is only to switch off flash and adjust white balance.
PH - The best way to "cut n paste" the pictures is to use the HTML "setting" when composing your post.
The picture willl automatically lari to the top when blogger posts the picture. If you want it to appear lower down, you have to cut the picture's string of code and paste it before or after the paragraph you want it to appear at.
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