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[TMBPhotography]

all I did was crop it. I think it looks better. But thats just my opinion.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Why didn't you just center her?

Or if you must off center, why did you put her on the left side?

Why chop her legs in favor of more space above her head?

 

[TMBPhotography]

I put her eyes in the upper left quadrant of the RoT. I thought you guys don't like centered pics.

 

[TMBPhotography]

is this better?

 

[Ron Evers]

Yes.

 

[The_Traveler]

You seem to be putting a lot of obstacles in your own way inadvertently.
Shooting out in the snow where the light is mostly in the upper range with little in the way of shadows or nice distribution of tones - and is cold toned by definition is very difficult. Additionally the very bright background competes with the girl for attention.

RULE 1: the brightest spot in a picture should either be the subject or be part of some design element. You don't want to attract the viewers' eyes from what you want them to look at.

If you don't understand histograms, read this

Now I think one can make this a bit better by
1) adding some more lower tones
2) lowering down the brightness and the focus of the backgrounds a bit
3) warming up the tones on the girl.

but you need to get to that later.

Shoot in more controlled situations where the light isn't fighting you.

Lew

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

I put her eyes in the upper left quadrant of the RoT. I thought you guys don't like centered pics.

You have much learning to do, young grasshopper.

 

[cgipson1]

I put her eyes in the upper left quadrant of the RoT. I thought you guys don't like centered pics.

I think what you don't realize.. is that YES.. we do like centered shots (WHEN IT IS APPROPRIATE!)... and just using the ROTs because just you can, doesn't necessarily mean anything, or help the shot at all!

 

[TMBPhotography]

I put her eyes in the upper left quadrant of the RoT. I thought you guys don't like centered pics.

You have much learning to do, young grasshopper.

Care to teach me the ways of the force, Obi-wan?

 

[KmH]

I do like the landscape shots of people, why is that bad?

Because it includes to much stuff in the frame that steals attention fom your intended main subject.

It also make your subject smaller in the frame giving the main subject less visual weight.

The #1 guideline in photography is 'Simplify'. Ensure your main subject doesn't have secondary, tertiary, or quantenary image elements competing for the viewers attention.

I suspect you've never taken an art appreciation class, or other any art classes for that matter.

Humans have been doing visual art for several thousand years now, and through those several thousand years have discovered which compositional guidelines work, or don't work.

Of course, you could spend the rest of your life re-doing several years of trial and error to rediscover a small portion of those guidelines on your own, or you could undertake a study of the visual arts and from those several thousand years of trial and error mistakes avoid the compositional pitfalls rather than repeating them.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

all I did was crop it. I think it looks better. But thats just my opinion.

Why didn't you just center her?

Or if you must off center, why did you put her on the left side?

Why chop her legs in favor of more space above her head?

I put her eyes in the upper left quadrant of the RoT. I thought you guys don't like centered pics.

You have much learning to do, young grasshopper.

Care to teach me the ways of the force, Obi-wan?

Start here,



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Then buy/borrow books on composition. Not one or two. As many as you can. Then look at thousands of images, and drawings and paintings, assess how the information is applied, why it works, or why an image that you think breaks a rule follows others.

You need to put the time in to learn. There are no magic apples, and no way to sum up years of experience, package it up nice, and post it here. Of course, you can post specific questions when the information confuses you.

 

[rokvi]

There needs to be another point of interest then. If its the fence choose a diffeerent angle so the fence is going through the photo and change the D.O.F. maybe...

 

[vandal]

I do like the landscape shots of people, why is that bad?

Because it includes to much stuff in the frame that steals attention fom your intended main subject.

It also make your subject smaller in the frame giving the main subject less visual weight.

The #1 guideline in photography is 'Simplify'. Ensure your main subject doesn't have secondary, tertiary, or quantenary image elements competing for the viewers attention.

I suspect you've never taken an art appreciation class, or other any art classes for that matter.

Humans have been doing visual art for several thousand years now, and through those several thousand years have discovered which compositional guidelines work, or don't work.

Of course, you could spend the rest of your life re-doing several years of trial and error to rediscover a small portion of those guidelines on your own, or you could undertake a study of the visual arts and from those several thousand years of trial and error mistakes avoid the compositional pitfalls rather than repeating them.

Freaking snobbery. And wrong. Just plain wrong. Landscape mode is very useful in portraiture, it just takes a bit more attention to things to make sure it works well.

There's nothing wrong with landscape portraits and I like what he's trying to do. A whole bunch of options exist to make that picture work better within the Landscape mode, or maybe he can try square, with the subject on one side and something to try and build the magic triangle. Maybe he can try an aperture with a shallower DoF to bring more focus on the subject but still have some surrounding stuff. Maybe he can try fill flash. A lot of options for suggestions other than "you've obviously never taken an art class" which makes you sound like a boob.

 

[The_Traveler]

Man, I just hate it when people use a difference in opinion as a chance to call someone else a name.

Why not just state you opinion and say why and assume that the facts will speak for themselves. Calling names just sets the stage for yet one more pissing content.

And the photographer receiving suggestions is a 'she' not a 'he'; I drew that inference from the name 'Elizabeth30'

One more thing, making an alteration and giving as the reason "i like it' or 'it looks better' helps the OP not at all.

 

[ph0enix]

Oh no, you di'int! This is going to be funny.

I do like the landscape shots of people, why is that bad?

Because it includes to much stuff in the frame that steals attention fom your intended main subject.

It also make your subject smaller in the frame giving the main subject less visual weight.

The #1 guideline in photography is 'Simplify'. Ensure your main subject doesn't have secondary, tertiary, or quantenary image elements competing for the viewers attention.

I suspect you've never taken an art appreciation class, or other any art classes for that matter.

Humans have been doing visual art for several thousand years now, and through those several thousand years have discovered which compositional guidelines work, or don't work.

Of course, you could spend the rest of your life re-doing several years of trial and error to rediscover a small portion of those guidelines on your own, or you could undertake a study of the visual arts and from those several thousand years of trial and error mistakes avoid the compositional pitfalls rather than repeating them.

Freaking snobbery. And wrong. Just plain wrong. Landscape mode is very useful in portraiture, it just takes a bit more attention to things to make sure it works well.

There's nothing wrong with landscape portraits and I like what he's trying to do. A whole bunch of options exist to make that picture work better within the Landscape mode, or maybe he can try square, with the subject on one side and something to try and build the magic triangle. Maybe he can try an aperture with a shallower DoF to bring more focus on the subject but still have some surrounding stuff. Maybe he can try fill flash. A lot of options for suggestions other than "you've obviously never taken an art class" which makes you sound like a boob.