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Thanks for the replies, guys. To answer both of you, the scene was shot in color, and the buoy was kept in its actual color while the rest of the scene was converted to monochrome.

While editing, I had suggested removing the railing in the foreground. She actually wanted more of it, so we compromised with keeping some, helping to balance out the hotel on the right side of the image. Perhaps cropping more from the left would be fine as the buoy would end up balancing against the hotel, I suppose.

And yes, my wife was the one who shot this, and we edited it together. Thanks for the critique, and apologies for taking so long to reply.

I've made an edit to crop, and attached it to this post.  It removes the post in the foreground, and does seem a bit more pleasing.  I understand the desire to remove the building on the right, but part of the composition was supposed to be the hotel. I realize that with the buoy being the only thing in color in the image, it dominates, and becomes the main subject, but it felt wrong to remove the hotel.

Shot with a D5500 on an 18-55 lens at 55mm, f/14 and ISO 100.

 

We went on a short ride of the tall ship Harvey Gamage yesterday, and this is a shot my wife would like some critique on.

Thanks for looking!

Ah, I see. So it looks like I went to far in with my change. I appreciate that you kept the droplet at the top of the image, and I agree that your edit is a bit more pleasing. Thanks for the assistance, I’ll keep working on my composition abilities.

Cheers!


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Ah, I think I understand.  I played with it some more, and found that cropping in more wasn't so bad.  I set a custom ratio of 5:4 in LR to lock the aspect ratio while cropping, and tweaked the properties you suggested.  Do you think the edit is better, or needs more work?

 

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Quite a while ago, I asked a similar question, and honestly, the best answer I got was to wait until I found I had outgrown what I already own. While I haven’t shot a lot until recently, I made do with the same two lenses you have for my D5500.

This past weekend, I finally have made the decision to buy a lens, which is the Tamron 90mm 2.8 macro lens(the older version). I’ve found with the different photos I take, the majority I spend more time trying to do close work, even though I do enjoy long shots and landscapes. My 18-55 doesn’t get close enough without diopter, and my 70-300 can’t focus close enough.

It’s really difficult to not run out and buy more stuff. Really, I get it, but after working for around a year with my current gear, I’ve finally found(and understand) what was holding me back gear wise.


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I took this with my 18-55 kit lens at 18mm f/11 and 100 ISO.  It was a series of photos that I stitched together in Lightroom, and applied some light editing.   This was taken Monday, July 3rd from the top of Mt. Kearsarge in New Hampshire, USA.  It was a gorgeous day, and I think this came out pretty nicely.

 

Enjoy!

 

D5500 with 18-55mm VRII kit lens.

 

Only taken photos of one subject so far.  Not sure what kind of flower this is, but my wife told me about it when I got home from work today.  Any ideas what it might be?

 

 

 

D5500 with the 18-55 VRII kit lens.   I have one shot in this collection that I added a +10 diopter to the lens for a macro shot.  Not sure if that counts, but I'm including it anyway.  Was out shooting yesterday at a small local waterfall.  Unfortunately, it was an overcast day, so pretty dreary and challenging conditions.  Hope you all enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taken last night, around 7pm.  Nikon D5500 with a Gemini 28mm f/2.8 Pentax K mount lens on a Fotodiox Pro Lens adapter.

 

 

 

These next three were taken on the 15th, while exploring an old rundown property for sale nearby.

 

 

 

 

I had some difficulty getting this moss to be in focus, due to the difficulty of capturing the image.  I had to hold my camera above my head, and could hardly see the screen with the sun in my eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers!

I took this image at a local museum - the same one the teacup photo came from.  I thought this hallway was pretty interesting, so took a shot.

 

D5500

18-55mm lens @ 18mm

1/30 sec@ f/8.0

ISO 360

 

 

I handheld my camera for this shot.  The original was a little tilted, so I had to rotate it a bit, but while the bricks in the floor seem straight, the ceiling tiles look tilted, and I'm not sure what the reason might be, or what I can do about it.  This is an HDR image I created from bracketed shots - I'm not sure if that would have any effect on that.  I also have used the lens profile in Lightroom.

 

I guess I have a couple of questions:

  -What causes the tilting ceiling but straight floor?

  -How is the composition?

  -What could I have done to improve the image(both with the camera and post processing)?

 

I realized when I got home and started looking at the image that I was not centered in the hallway, but instead was off center to the left.  I did try to crop to adjust for that, but there is clearly only so much I could do in those regards, unless I do some complicated(beyond my capabilities to look good) transformations in PS.

 

Thanks for looking!

It's a nice photo but yeah, it could benefit from a bit more depth of field. It's also just a tad soft. Did you use a tripod? I'm guessing no since you say this was in a museum.

I think, if you must hand hold the camera (and can't use flash) that I would bump the ISO up enough (or use AUTO ISO) so that you can shoot at between f/11 and f/16 at no less than 125th of a second. Preferably f/11 because diffraction starts to rear it's ugly head beyond that point. However, if you must maximize depth of field then I'd use f/16.

--Ron

I'll be honest...I tend to forget to adjust the apature when I start taking photos. That said, while post processing on the photo doesn't show it, it was a tad on the dim side in there, which without a tripod doesn't lend itself to handholding a smaller apature. Maybe I would have been OK raising the exposure in post. I'll have to work on some better setting choices.

I would have liked to had a tripod with me, but it would be a bit awkward to bring in a museum. It almost seems like manual mode would have been a better choice, rather than apature priority.

Thanks for the input!

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I took this photo yesterday while I was out.  D5500 with the 18-55mm kit lens.  I'm sure this would look a ton better on my future 35mm 1.8, but until then, the kit lens will have to do.  

 

This is the first image that I've done 'real' editing on in Lightroom.  I did not edit in Photoshop.  Any and all criticism is welcome.  What did I do wrong?  What could I have done to improve it?

 

Thanks, and enjoy!

 

 

 

f6.3/ 1/400 / ISO 100 / 18mm

 

Hello all from NH!  I have been lurking for a little while here, while I saved up to get my first DSLR.  I just received a D5500 yesterday that I purchased online, and so far I'm super happy with it, not that I've done much other than  try to figure it out.

 

Regarding the types of photography I am interested in exploring, I am interested in landscapes, macro and wildlife primarily.  Theres a lot more that I would like to get into, but I think I need to keep my focus narrow while I'm learning and collecting glass.

 

I'm very much a beginner when it comes to taking photos, but I've been doing quite a bit of research, leading up to my purchase, so I understand the basics, and believe I need to learn good composition techniques.  I look forward to learning as much as I can here.

 

Cheers!