Re: What would you change in this photo?


"Burt Johnson" <burt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK, I am throwing myself at your mercy -- and hopefully helpful
discussion. I am very new to photography, having purchased my first
camera (a Canon 5D) 2 months ago after a 30 year hiatus from
photography. (I have done dozens of commercial videos in the interim,
52 of which can be viewed and purchased from my web site in my link or
from Amazon).

At any rate, I recently took a weekend trip to Mono Lake in California.
With 500 or so shots, I deleted about half, and am happy with maybe half
a dozen. This is one that I am happy with.

I am interested to hear what others here have to say about this shot.

1) What could I have done better/different in the camera? I couldn't
control the weather, so don't bother with that. Given the conditions,
what would you have done different?

2) What could I have done better/different in Lightroom/Photoshop to
improve it?

For the record, this was shot in Raw format. The result was leveled (my
tripod was 4 degrees out of kilter in the sand -- I need a level on it),
and the exposure/clarity very slightly tweaked in Lightroom. It was
then cropped to be a tad shorter vertically than the camera made it.
Other than that, it is pretty much as my camera recorded it.

If you just want to say it is terrible or boring, don't bother wasting
the bandwidth. I am interested in learning, not in hearing some snot
nosed kid who claims to be 50+ bragging how smart he is (drop dead UC --
you are on my killfile anyway)

--
- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/
How many shots of this subject did you take? There is more than one good
image of almost any subject.

Take shots of the subject from various locations. Take shots at each
position both high and low.

Eventually you may get enough images of the subject to permit selecting the
very best one.

You might try increasing the saturation. Sometimes that makes an image come
to life.

Jim


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