Good books all, AC. Good collection, and yes, a real good composition too. The dark background brings out the contrast of the colors real well.
A few suggestions: * I see camera shake. A tripod could fix it, especially for the longer exposure u are shooting with. * The higher ISO makes the picture noisier too, you could try the same picture, setting the ISO to be perhaps 400, and being on the tripod, the picture which be crisper.
AC, I was going to do the same exact thing.. then i just ended up (somehow) doing something different :-) this is a nice shot.. like Naveen mentioned, a few things can be done to this shot to make it much better and art gallery worthy.. at least some contrast and reduce some of the over exposure..
I suggest some of us go and shoot together one of these days and learn a bit from each other..
You see a yellow-ish light in the picture? That's because of the white-balance. Most of the pictures u shoot at night in the normal lamps u have indoors have a yellow-ish tinge to it. Its hard to compensate for the clean-white nature of the Sun.
If u had shot this picture in raw, adjusting the white-balance is a little easier, I think, with most photo editing softwares.
u can adjust stuff even when u don't shoot raw.. what you do is adjust the color temperature (which even picasa lets you do) and play with tinting (which you need better/serious) editors.. you can also adjust curves using photoshop..
but technically, Naveen is right about shooting raw (and FYI.. i suggest we all shoot raw).. "Color temperature" is sometimes used loosely to mean "white balance" or "white point". However, color temperature has only one degree of freedom, essentially the blue–yellow axis, whereas white balance has two, adding the magenta–green axis" - wiki
a nice little forum where they talk about something similar ""How can I change white balance on a jpeg?".. http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00AdLx
and a brilliant color temperature 101 from (where else) wiki; something we (any one who wants to shoot some good pics under different conditions) should all know about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
Nice shot AC. I have nothing more to add. I agree with Nav about shooting RAW images. I have gotten lazy & have shot a lot of JPEGs lately, but this forum is making me a more honest photographer!
Good books all, AC. Good collection, and yes, a real good composition too. The dark background brings out the contrast of the colors real well.
ReplyDeleteA few suggestions:
* I see camera shake. A tripod could fix it, especially for the longer exposure u are shooting with.
* The higher ISO makes the picture noisier too, you could try the same picture, setting the ISO to be perhaps 400, and being on the tripod, the picture which be crisper.
Good job, AC!
AC, I was going to do the same exact thing.. then i just ended up (somehow) doing something different :-) this is a nice shot.. like Naveen mentioned, a few things can be done to this shot to make it much better and art gallery worthy.. at least some contrast and reduce some of the over exposure..
ReplyDeleteI suggest some of us go and shoot together one of these days and learn a bit from each other..
You see a yellow-ish light in the picture? That's because of the white-balance. Most of the pictures u shoot at night in the normal lamps u have indoors have a yellow-ish tinge to it. Its hard to compensate for the clean-white nature of the Sun.
ReplyDeleteIf u had shot this picture in raw, adjusting the white-balance is a little easier, I think, with most photo editing softwares.
u can adjust stuff even when u don't shoot raw.. what you do is adjust the color temperature (which even picasa lets you do) and play with tinting (which you need better/serious) editors.. you can also adjust curves using photoshop..
ReplyDeletebut technically, Naveen is right about shooting raw (and FYI.. i suggest we all shoot raw).. "Color temperature" is sometimes used loosely to mean "white balance" or "white point". However, color temperature has only one degree of freedom, essentially the blue–yellow axis, whereas white balance has two, adding the magenta–green axis" - wiki
a nice little forum where they talk about something similar ""How can I change white balance on a jpeg?".. http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00AdLx
and a brilliant color temperature 101 from (where else) wiki; something we (any one who wants to shoot some good pics under different conditions) should all know about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
..or you can set teh white balance to Tungsten. Looks like you had incandescent lights on.
ReplyDeleteNice shot AC. I have nothing more to add. I agree with Nav about shooting RAW images. I have gotten lazy & have shot a lot of JPEGs lately, but this forum is making me a more honest photographer!
ReplyDelete....liking the book selection! Agree with the earlier comments (yellowish, blurry), but well-colored.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, place the books in a spiral form?