Composition Techniques C&C

[Markw]

Ok, so I have been looking up some compositions lately, and I decided to try one that I am familiar with and one I am not so familiar with. Here are the photos. Tell me what you think?

Rule of Thirds. Familiar.

Radial.

Thanks! :mrgreen: C&C appreciated on the compositions and the photos themselves.
Mark

 

[Markw]

Ugh. Photobucket makes them look terrible. -_-

Mark

 

[Plato]

Ok, so I have been looking up some compositions lately, and I decided to try one that I am familiar with and one I am not so familiar with. Here are the photos. Tell me what you think?

Rule of Thirds. Familiar.


Radial.


Thanks! :mrgreen: C&C appreciated on the compositions and the photos themselves.
Mark

#1. I'm a big fan of selective focus but the "in focus" area extending across the photo is annoying. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to avoid it.

 

[Markw]

Im confused what you mean? You dont like how the whole flower is in focus?

Mark

 

[Samanax]

I think he's talking about the area that is in focus going across the bottom of the picture...the narrow DOF band.

 

[chammer]

i love the first.

using a marquee selection you could probably select the area to the left and right of the flower and do a blur on that selected area to try and get it to match the area thats out of focus.

 

[Markw]

Oh! That was my misinterpretation! I thought you meant the second one. I dont care much for it either. I do love my new 50mm 1.8 lens for it though.

Mark

 

[KmH]

I think the first image would be stronger if the center of the bloom was closer to the lower right power point.

 

[Plato]

Im confused what you mean? You dont like how the whole flower is in focus?

Mark

I'm talking about that band of the table that's in focus.