Two for CC

[mfdrookie516]

I'm becoming more confident in my pictures as I learn more. Having only about a month of experience, I'm still extremely inexperienced... however, my wife and I have went out every weekend to take pictures since getting my first DSLR last month. Here are two that I took yesterday. I'd appreciate any thoughts on how these could be improved.

1: 1/2, 100, f/18

2: 1.6s, 100, f/32

I did some PP in CS5, but very little. I cropped, lowered the exposure a bit (it was sunny when I took these), and increased the saturation to bring out the greens and blues. I'm still a supernoob at all of this, so any and all suggestions are welcome.

 

[cgipson1]

Blue water? Green water? NOT! Unless you are going for some over saturated Fairy-Tale look! If I were you, I would consider starting from scratch and try to keep it a little more real!

 

[RxForB3]

Well I'm going to move up to commenting on others photos. I like #1. Particularly I find the difference between the blurred and non-blurred rocks to be interesting. The rocks almost blend into the water making it seem like it's blurred water and non-burred water as well...if that makes sense...

 

[cgipson1]

Well I'm going to move up to commenting on others photos. I like #1. Particularly I find the difference between the blurred and non-blurred rocks to be interesting. The rocks almost blend into the water making it seem like it's blurred water and non-burred water as well...if that makes sense...

the blur is nice.. but why is it BLUE? Or does that look normal to you? Or maybe you don't calibrate your monitor.. and you don't see it?

 

[mfdrookie516]

I guess I did get carried away trying out CS5 (I just got it yesterday). Here are the originals, untouched. I am definitely happy with the cropping, but I can see how the colors do make it look too fake.

The first one -

And the second -

 

[RxForB3]

Heh, well I AM looking at these on a laptop. Though in comparison to the originals, I see what you meant cgipson1. And even if I WAS looking at these on the other monitor, I probably wouldn't have noticed anyway. Hence why I'm just now starting to comment on other's photos Maybe I should wait a bit longer!

 

[480sparky74 73]

Are you shooting in raw or jpeg?

Correcting the WB issue is stupendously easy in raw, not so easy in jpeg.

 

[mfdrookie516]

I do shoot in RAW, luckily, that was one of the first things I read to do.

Here's another try at it. Perhaps I'm going about it all wrong. All I did on this one was pull the exposure down a bit, brighten it, and increase the saturation enough to show the moss the way it really looked in the woods.