Exposure?

[Speckles]

Hi! I am TRYING to get a grip on exposure. Please check this shot and give me any C&C. I really want to get better, but always seem to over/under expose. :thumbdown: Gaah! Anyhow, thanks in advance. Oh and I know this isn't portrait material. The houses, drool, etc.... lol


AMS_0963 by Speckles Snaps, on Flickr

 

[Josh66]

Exposure looks fine to me. I don't really see anything that's under or over exposed. Even the sky looks good.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Exposure looks spot on to me.
Because the background is so nicely blurred, even being houses, notsobad!

 

[480sparky67 66]

Sparky like!

 

[mwcfarms]

Exposure seems pretty spot on.

 

[Speckles]

Awesome! I am so glad. Now to keep practicing. lol Thanks a bunch for the feedback!

 

[Trever1t]

good job on the focus too!

 

[Fern]

Hi! I am TRYING to get a grip on exposure. Please check this shot and give me any C&C. I really want to get better, but always seem to over/under expose. :thumbdown: Gaah! Anyhow, thanks in advance. Oh and I know this isn't portrait material. The houses, drool, etc.... lol


AMS_0963 by Speckles Snaps, on Flickr

I may have overlooked it somewhere, but what were the settings you used?

 

[Speckles]

good job on the focus too!

Thank you!

I may have overlooked it somewhere, but what were the settings you used?

ISO 100, f/2.5, 1/200

 

[bremner53]

I think the exposure is perfect

 

[KmH]

Wrong framing format. It should have been made/cropped as a vertical. The negative space on the left adds nothing but distraction.

The exposure is good. It looks like the child was in open shade. What was lighting the childs face there from camera right?

 

[c.cloudwalker]

Exposure is fine, background is fine (oof enough to not be annoying at all), drool is fine (it's a baby), focus is fine, the expression is great. Looks like great portrait material to me.

And not all portraits have to portrait oriented with nothing in the background. This one works fine as a horizontal and is way more interesting than the average portrait studio portrait.

 

[FranDaMan]

^^^^^^^^
What he said. Rules are made to be broken and not every portrait has to be made in portrait orientation.

 

[480sparky67 66]

Orientation? Format? OOF?

I thought this was a question about exposure.

 

[KmH]

Please check this shot and give me any C&C.

There was a qualifier.

It is perhaps somewhat disingenuous to spout "rules are made to be broken" unless you mention that you first have to understand the why of the rules, so you can know when it's advantageous to ignore them.

As it is, there are no rules for photography, but there are guidelines. Those guidelines are not arbitrary either. They have been repeatedly tested over the last couple of thousand years and proven to be effective.

Framing the shot vertically would have made it a stronger image, IMO.