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Posted: **Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:14 am**

Hi, Everyone. I'm a new user for this forum. Please give some comment for the following picture. Thank you.

Picture of "Eye on Malaysia"

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Kind Regards,
Tony

Posted: **Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:43 am**

Hi Tony - Salam dari Australia!

Two very nicely framed photographs there - #2 is my favorite, mainly because the exposure is consistent from top to bottom - in #1 it is a little dark at the bottom - you should be able to fix that in PP though :-)

Cheers

Leigh
Saya bisa berbicara sedikit bahasa Indonesia karena saya tinggal di Jakarta selama dua tahun sebagai seorang anak.

Posted: **Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:24 am**

Hi Leigh,

Thanks for your comment. I'm using Canon 20D with a very lousy Cosina 19-35mm Lens. Must get a Canon Lens. Maybe that's why the picture is not very nice. I'm just beginners. Maybe i can get a lot of tips from you.

Regards,
Tony.

Posted: **Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:28 am**

Hi Tony,

You might like to try applying an ND filter (in software) to the image to brighten up the foreground in #1 - see this tutorial for an example on how to do this using the GIMP.

Posted: **Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:05 am**

Hi Tony,
I agree with Leigh. I imagine that the sky was quite bright in comparison to the trees etc at the bottom of image #1. The large contrast in brightness had to be accounted for and your camera would have seen that the majority of the image was bright, so it exposed for the sky (although it did over-expose a few of the clouds), which is quite common.

This is where knowing how to manipulate your camera settings is an advantage. You could have made your camera expose more for the darker areas, which would have resulted in the sky being more over-exposed.....it all comes down to what you were trying to acheive with the photo.
There isn't a right & wrong, only your interpretation.

Keep posting your images and welcome to this great online community !