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Went for a chrismas drive with family today and travelled along the east coast

I took this picture of the 9 mile bridge on top of an lookout. Critque is welcome, how can i make something like this more intresting?

Fantastic color in the water, very inviting indeed Good composition and capturing all of the eye pleasing elements in the frame.

Did you have a circular polarizer on your lens?

yes i did have the poliariser and it was set to cancel out the reflection of the water

i found another pic i took, of the other side of the look out (~200 Degrees of sea view !) and found a more intresting pic

the sky was washed out so i had to blend one in

what do you guys think of the results, i had to play a lot with the expsure to get it right as it was mostly over exposed in the raw

Kenny 12
A pod of whales breaching in image number one would have done the trick.

G'day Kenny,
Judging by the shots you already have good skills, framing's good with the horizon on the top third etc. and interestign parts in the bottom two corners being the thirds sort of thing, the lack of clouds and interesting shapes in the sky makes it harder so I think to improve that shot much unless from a different angle maybe?

Just rambling trying to offer suggestions or ideas it's all good fun

Maybe if you got down lower and tried to include something to catch the eye closer in the foreground, maybe a flower/plant or something, or take the shot from down on the shore you could get some great angles with the rocks in the water as a foreground interest etc... The polariser does a great job on water huh.

I think the same sorts of things for the second one and the horizon's a bit squashed up the top so it catches me a bit, and I assume that due to it being right up the top it seems to have curved the horizon, easily fixed in PP... The horizon police'll getcha

Try a few different crops of the same images, and see the sorts of diffferences and se if that helps, worth a try

Getting the exposure right in these would have been tricky as they look as though they were taken maybe in the middle'ish of the day(?) so that makes the lighting harder, long shadows and late light colors do wonders for these sorts of shots...

Just rambling hope it's helpful...

they were actually taken at around 9am!

dam summer solicice, woke up at 5am and missed the sunrise

it was a clear day so no clouds either

i've heard about rule of thirds, what is it actually?

kenny12 wrote:they were actually taken at around 9am!

dam summer solicice, woke up at 5am and missed the sunrise

it was a clear day so no clouds either

i've heard about rule of thirds, what is it actually?

G'day,

Yeah, the longer days makes those sunrise times bloody early these days huh Couldn't get EXIF but light looked fairly hard, so I just took a stab...

More experienced guys will describe it better, but the rule of thirds is basically placing the items of interest or main subjects in your image on one (or many?) of the intersections if you divide the photo/frame into thirds both vertically and horizontallo so it's divided uplike into nine squares. This is just one of the common compositional routines, but like all good rules, breaking them is good sometimes Just check out some of the images people have posted here (or in pixspot, smugmug, deviant art, any of the photo sharing sites etc) and break down the images into those thirds and it's common to place something interesting there in the image.

Cheers...

Thanks Mudder for the tip

Matt. K wrote:Kenny 12
A pod of whales breaching in image number one would have done the trick.

I almost caught a school of dolphins swimming in the sea on one of the other pics i had, which was taken from shore. I just wasn't fast enough with my camera

Just to experience the dolphins is a terrific experience, (especially if you're an animal nut ) Went swimming with them down off Sorrento somewhere a few years ago, wow, great experience...

Ask heaps of questions here mate, I don't consider myself in the same lot with the experienced guys who actually know what they're talking about but there's a lot of very talented photo dudes on the forum and they'll always offer tips etc...

Cheers.