My First Sunset Macro!

karissabphotography · Jul 6, 2011

Uhm,
Sorry to say but incredibly boring photo...
You wanted this critiqued? LOL

Bitter Jeweler · Jul 6, 2011

karissabphotography said:
Uhm,
Sorry to say but incredibly boring photo...
You wanted this critiqued? LOL

Only by people of higher intelligence who understand the photo. So, move along.

karissabphotography · Jul 7, 2011

Maybe you aren't the best person to judge my intelligence, especially with the photo you provided.
Please stop harrassing me and posting on my threads. Thankyou.

Netskimmer · Jul 7, 2011

karissabphotography said:
Maybe you aren't the best person to judge my intelligence, especially with the photo you provided.
Please stop harrassing me and posting on my threads. Thankyou.

Not sure if you're joking or just...special. In any case this is actually HIS thread soooo...

Bitter Jeweler · Jul 7, 2011

This thread is an intelligence test. It's pretty much pass or fail.

enzodm · Jul 7, 2011

pgriz said:
So lets see

Weve touched upon:
1) Watermarks
2) ...
...

The picture is so sharp that I'm sure it has been made with a Canon. And no kit zoom, of course.

(something was missing from the list

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subscuck · Jul 7, 2011

Someone mentioned selective color, so I figured I'd show the noobs how it's done right.

The first rule of SC is to draw attention to your subject. What have I colored? That's right, the subject. See how your eye is immediately drawn to the subject? I haven't colored any of the other elements because I thought it would "look cool", or because I thought coloring them would lead the eye to the subject, or any of the other excuses you hear for poor choices in selective coloring.

BTW, Bitter, I cropped it a little as the softness at the edges was bothering me more than a little.

Bitter Jeweler · Jul 7, 2011

Excellent edit!

jmurphy · Jul 7, 2011

I like the way you avoided a distracting background. Nice!

jaomul · Jul 7, 2011

Looks like you need to invest in a new camera, without the built in orange filter

Bitter Jeweler · Jul 7, 2011

jmurphy said:
I like the way you avoided a distracting background. Nice!

Yeah, that's a good thing about Macro photography, the background tends to blur very nicely and not be too intrusive.

Derrel · Jul 7, 2011

I know I harp on this a lot....but this would have made a really nice V E R T I C A L photograph!!! So, in keeping with that idea, I did a re-work of it, as a "tall". See the difference? Pretty remarkable,eh?

I was perusing the EXIF information for the photo, which revealed that it had been made with a Canon 5D Mark II, at ISO 100, at 1/60 second and f/16. I thought I saw the tell-tale effects of diffraction!!! Why did you stop the lens down so much? Wouldn't it have been a better use of the exposure triangle to get the shutter speed up a bit higher, like say, 1/250 second, by opening the lens up two stops, to f/8? Or maybe, just maybe, elevating the ISO from 100 to 200, and thus allowing you the option of shooting at say, 1/500 second at f/8? I mean, 1/60 is just such a slooooow shutter speed. Anyway, just kind of wondering out loud why you made the choices you made; now, if by chance this shot was taken with a flash, then I can understand the 1/60 shutter speed, and if that is the case, then, "Nevermind".

Bitter Jeweler · Jul 7, 2011

Derrel said:
I know I harp on this a lot....but this would have made a really nice V E R T I C A L photograph!!! So, in keeping with that idea, I did a re-work of it, as a "tall". See the difference? Pretty remarkable,eh?

You and your V E R T I C A L S! But you are right, again. I see the difference.

I was perusing the EXIF information for the photo, which revealed that it had been made with a Canon 5D Mark II, at ISO 100, at 1/60 second and f/16. I thought I saw the tell-tale effects of diffraction!!! Why did you stop the lens down so much?

I was trying to get as much DoF as possible. I supose I could have focus stacked this one. But sunsets actually move pretty quickly. I was on a tripod, so I didn't think f/60 was an issue.

Wouldn't it have been a better use of the exposure triangle to get the shutter speed up a bit higher, like say, 1/250 second, by opening the lens up two stops, to f/8? Or maybe, just maybe, elevating the ISO from 100 to 200, and thus allowing you the option of shooting at say, 1/500 second at f/8? I mean, 1/60 is just such a slooooow shutter speed. Anyway, just kind of wondering out loud why you made the choices you made; now, if by chance this shot was taken with a flash, then I can understand the 1/60 shutter speed, and if that is the case, then, "Nevermind".

I did use flash, off camera, from the side, hoping to bring out some of the suns texture.