Just a couple random shots

[capt_cope]

Just a couple of shots I've taken recently in my journey to learn to be a photographer. I'm currently just an assistant at a studio, but my boss is teaching me, painfully slowly if I do say so myself, the ins and outs of how to take photographs.

I'd love any comments and critiques you might have.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/capt_cope/GD5G8247.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/capt_cope/flower.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/capt_cope/sunset.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/capt_cope/sunset2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/capt_cope/Final2.jpg

[Sue]

Welcome to Badger & Blade. The only comment I have of your photography can be summed up in one word.....beautiful!!
Sue

[jazzman]

Nice shots, but the third one really stands out, in my opinion. The horizon line feels like its in the right place, and there is enough light below it to see the landscape there. The sky in that shot shows that light is what it's all about. Did you use any filters or alter it with software, or did the sky happen to look that way at that moment?

[Prince]

Very nice. My daughter would love the first one.

You might try b&w film also. It gives great contrast and can be more interesting than color.

Oh, I am assuming you are using a camera that takes film.

Amazing how in just a few years, film is almost obsolete.

[capt_cope]

Nice shots, but the third one really stands out, in my opinion. The horizon line feels like its in the right place, and there is enough light below it to see the landscape there. The sky in that shot shows that light is what it's all about. Did you use any filters or alter it with software, or did the sky happen to look that way at that moment?

I altered it in the raw format, for the contrast, I basically slid that little contrast bar all the way to full, so that the clouds in the sky got some depth. (all of these are digital, shot on a Kodak Pro 14/n) that particular shot is actually three separate shots. I exposed once for the foreground, a second time for the colors in the sky (they did in fact look the way I show them in the shot, it was amazing to look up and see) and lastly for the horizon (I darkened that up greatly, from the foreground exposure, since the horizon would have been blown out at that shutter speed, and it was slightly more open than the exposure for the sky, since that would have lost detail) Using an eraser in photoshop I just erased everything that I wasn't trying to expose for in each picture, and layered them.
While some people will think of that as "cheating" somehow, I don't. That picture looks and feels like the sky looked and felt, and that's what I'm trying to show, and tried to capture.
I'm not at the point that I can capture what I see, in the way I see it. Sometimes I need to tweak things to align what I captured to what I saw.

[jazzman]

I altered it in the raw format, for the contrast, I basically slid that little contrast bar all the way to full, so that the clouds in the sky got some depth. (all of these are digital, shot on a Kodak Pro 14/n) that particular shot is actually three separate shots. I exposed once for the foreground, a second time for the colors in the sky (they did in fact look the way I show them in the shot, it was amazing to look up and see) and lastly for the horizon (I darkened that up greatly, from the foreground exposure, since the horizon would have been blown out at that shutter speed, and it was slightly more open than the exposure for the sky, since that would have lost detail) Using an eraser in photoshop I just erased everything that I wasn't trying to expose for in each picture, and layered them.
While some people will think of that as "cheating" somehow, I don't. That picture looks and feels like the sky looked and felt, and that's what I'm trying to show, and tried to capture.
I'm not at the point that I can capture what I see, in the way I see it. Sometimes I need to tweak things to align what I captured to what I saw.

I'm not even a newbie when it comes to digital, so here are my questions: how hard was it to learn how to do that, and how long did it take you to work on that one shot on the computer?

[Jim]

Outstanding!#3 is a keeper!

Welcome to the B&B :biggrin:

[Taz]

Outstanding!#3 is a keeper!

Welcome to the B&B :biggrin:

+1 on all of that:thumbup1: