A walk in the park.

[AuraTodd]

Wandering my local park I found these two people staring towards the river. Can you tell me how this can be improved please?

 

[xenskhe]

It can be straightened a bit; it's tilted off-vertical to the right. Saturation is very high, contrast is a bit high. No tonal detail in the sky, or the trunk of the tree. Do you have the raw file? Reduce the exposure adjustment in raw to maybe get some sky detail, and then try to dodge the shadow areas (or try curve adjustment to lift some of the shadow).

 

[AuraTodd]

Thanks for your input

It can be straightened a bit; it's tilted off-vertical to the right.

I don't stand straight, but will see if I can level it out.

No tonal detail in the sky

It was a grey day

Do you have the raw file?

Sorry it was shot in J-peg but I have the original

 

[xenskhe]

It was a grey day

Why is the sky white then?

 

[jcdeboever]

It was a grey day

Why is the sky white then?

For me, this is the single biggest issue that irritates me to no end, sky blowout. I still have no handle on it yet.

 

[jcdeboever]

Wandering my local park I found these two people staring towards the river. Can you tell me how this can be improved please?

Very nice color and mood. I agree it could be tilted back a hair to the left.

 

[Designer]

It can be straightened a bit; it's tilted off-vertical to the right.

I don't stand straight, but will see if I can level it out.

Actually, I don't see the need for straightening this shot. Also; getting the shot perfectly level at the time is extremely rare, maybe even a stroke of luck. Seriously, I always plan on straightening my shots, and I'm actually very good at seeing level and plumb without a spirit level to guide me, and I don't always get it right in camera. So relax about that.

Now if one were to "straighten" your shots, look for something to guide you, such as a building, water on the horizon (not a shore) or something for which you have a high degree of confidence in knowing that it is probably really vertical (or horizontal as the case may be). The things I almost never rely on are; power poles, roads, anything that is on wheels, and the like. Obviously, you shouldn't depend on only tree trunks, fence posts, etc either, because they can be installed off plumb, or get bumped off plumb at some point as well.

In this shot, we see some guardrail posts (which may be plumb, or not) and a tree trunk (which often grow off plumb, and people. Now if you consider that the man is leaning, one might think he is not the thing upon which to straighten, but consider his stance: His center of mass makes a vertical line going from his ankle to his shoulders, and since that is a vertical line, I would call this photo perfectly straight just as it is.

 

[Designer]

Can you tell me how this can be improved please?

If you walked closer, you could have framed the couple with the tree, the railing, and the road. Make your subjects larger in the frame. As it is now, you could crop a lot of the tree and get the people really a lot tighter in the frame.

If you had made your preferences to "o.k. to edit" someone could show you on this photo.

 

[allanwelshssony]

Nice picture. Looks straight to me. Focus is on blossom of tree.
Couple look interesting- though slightly out of focus. I wonder what they were looking at?


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[jcdeboever]

It can be straightened a bit; it's tilted off-vertical to the right.

I don't stand straight, but will see if I can level it out.

Actually, I don't see the need for straightening this shot. Also; getting the shot perfectly level at the time is extremely rare, maybe even a stroke of luck. Seriously, I always plan on straightening my shots, and I'm actually very good at seeing level and plumb without a spirit level to guide me, and I don't always get it right in camera. So relax about that.

Now if one were to "straighten" your shots, look for something to guide you, such as a building, water on the horizon (not a shore) or something for which you have a high degree of confidence in knowing that it is probably really vertical (or horizontal as the case may be). The things I almost never rely on are; power poles, roads, anything that is on wheels, and the like. Obviously, you shouldn't depend on only tree trunks, fence posts, etc either, because they can be installed off plumb, or get bumped off plumb at some point as well.

In this shot, we see some guardrail posts (which may be plumb, or not) and a tree trunk (which often grow off plumb, and people. Now if you consider that the man is leaning, one might think he is not the thing upon which to straighten, but consider his stance: His center of mass makes a vertical line going from his ankle to his shoulders, and since that is a vertical line, I would call this photo perfectly straight just as it is.

Looking at it closer, I agree it may not need to be straightened. The tree is coming out of the ground on an angle, thus creating the illusion. Good eye Designer.

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[AuraTodd]

Hi thanks for your replies.

If you had made your preferences to "o.k. to edit" someone could show you on this photo.

How do I change that please?

 

[Designer]

Hi thanks for your replies.

If you had made your preferences to "o.k. to edit" someone could show you on this photo.

How do I change that please?

It's under "Personal Details".

Upper right-hand corner is your screen name. Hover there and the drop-down menu appears. Go to the first one on the left side, "Personal Details".

Then look about halfway down your settings to find a choice box like this:

The arrows on the right give you the choices.

Be sure to "save changes" before exiting.

 

[The_Traveler]

It seems to me that you don't have a really clear idea what you are taking a picture of.
If the people are really the subject why are they so small and oof in the frame?
Try and make the subject of the image larger and more important in the frame so that the viewer can understand what to look at.

 

[AuraTodd]

OK I've changed the setting, thanks.

 

[Designer]

OK I've changed the setting, thanks.

O.K., as I wrote above; if your subjects are the people, you could walk closer and make them a larger portion of the frame. Here is how I would frame this shot.

Now they're framed by the tree and path, and the guardrail leads the viewer's eye to them. The people are in a good position relative to the bounds of the frame, and they are looking toward the deeper part of the frame (into some space).