Eye on Malaysia

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Eye on Malaysia

Postby DigitalView on 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.

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Postby hart on 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 :-)

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Postby DigitalView on 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. :D

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Postby hart on 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.
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Postby Aussie Dave on 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.
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