Oh summer how I miss you...

Tarnished · Jan 3, 2011

Some photos from summer 2010. Sorry for the huge files but I tried to size them smaller and it killed them. Please bare with the pictures, I only have a little dinky digital camera. No fancy lenses or such, just an everyday digital camera.

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Butt end of a bee in a zucchini flower

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Fly of some sort

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Pansy

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Red ants trying to get a dead spider in their hole

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Mission aborted

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Brown eyed susan

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Tomato flower

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Some sky and mountains on a walk home

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Ladybug and dandelion

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So I put this up because I think it's cool. The stem completely disappeared so it's just a floating flower =)

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Daddy long legs

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More dandelions

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slugggg =)

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weird flower...thing?

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Feather

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I saved a bee from a watery death bed

C&C?

Tarnished · Feb 10, 2011

someone?

wlbphoto · Feb 10, 2011

some of the flower ones were nice, some were not sorry

Snakeguy101 · Feb 10, 2011

You have a lot of your shots centered and a few are quite soft. work on your sharpness and your composition.

grandpawrichard · Feb 10, 2011

Tarnished,
We all had to start out in photography somewhere and with some kind of camera that was a bit less than Professional.

We also had to learn how to compose a photo (some of us (myself included) are still trying to learn that.
Some of your photos are quite nice and I can see that you have a good eye for photography; so Please keep trying and you will get there!

Photography is not just the camera and the lens that make photos. A fair percentage of a photo is because of the Photographer and his/hers skills. Once you learn this you are on the road to being a photographer.

Get down to the level of the subject you are photographing,
make sure that the horizon line in the subject is level,
make sure that your composition of the photo is correct and not in the center of the photo every time (use the rule of thirds...divide the photo into 1/3 rds. and put your subject in one of the other thirds or off center in the middle 1/3 rd.)
make sure that your subject is in focus,
make sure that your exposure is as good as you can get it.
Then learn how to use Photo Editing Software to Polish the photo into 100% that you want to show off.

A good, easy to use Photo Editing software for Beginning Photographers is Softonic's Photofiltre. It is a FREE Program that you download and install on your computer. You can find it with the following link:

PhotoFiltre - Download

Another way to learn photography is to take classes at your local community college. Also check in your area for Camera Clubs. Most people in the clubs would love to help you learn photography!

The main thing is to HAVE FUN WITH PHOTOGRAPHY!

Dick

Frequency · Feb 11, 2011

#1: some times centering in the image can work; but here the lack of sharpness is the problem; probably you are a bit more closer to the image than the lens permits

#2: it is not necessary that the fly in the image must appear parallel to the frame; to get that you tilted the whole image and thus happened to include that car in the image and spoilt the whole story :grumpy:

#3: if the plant is not in a pot, sometimes it will be difficult to move around to get a fine background suitable for the flower; here the very similar colored shutter in the background only subtracts!!!

#4 & #5 have full of confusion within the frame

#6: A very good image

#7: the background is distracting

#8: Good shot

#9, #10: i really liked

#11: keep the flower out of center and you have a fine shot

#12: That i really liked

#13: trim the top of the image for eliminating distractions

#14: Keeping technical aspects aside, i really liked this image

#15: Loved it, except for those white bodies in the background

#16: Would have been very lovely, if feather was in sharp focus

#17: Background :grumpy:

Regards