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Angling... I always think of Oscar Wilde's description of second marriages, 'The triumph of optimism over experience...' I like the improvised hook, I hope he caught something.
It's a tricky subject, because of the length of the rod. To cut it off or not to cut it off? Here you were at your widest angle, I wonder if there was space to step back a bit?
You've cut off the bicycle as well as the rod, and I think one or the other needs to be complete. Judging by the line, which is just visible in Tish's modification, you lost very little of the rod, but it's the fact that rod and line aren't visually connected that lets this down.
It does benefit from lightening. Most of the frame is taken up with sky and the light reflected from the water, and that tricks the camera into underexposing. You used a minus exposure compensation, I wonder if that was left over from a previous shoot? A small plus compensation, say + 0.7 or + 1 stop, would have been useful here.
Moira
It's a tricky subject, because of the length of the rod. To cut it off or not to cut it off? Here you were at your widest angle, I wonder if there was space to step back a bit?
You've cut off the bicycle as well as the rod, and I think one or the other needs to be complete. Judging by the line, which is just visible in Tish's modification, you lost very little of the rod, but it's the fact that rod and line aren't visually connected that lets this down.
It does benefit from lightening. Most of the frame is taken up with sky and the light reflected from the water, and that tricks the camera into underexposing. You used a minus exposure compensation, I wonder if that was left over from a previous shoot? A small plus compensation, say + 0.7 or + 1 stop, would have been useful here.
Moira
Its a nice shot, and I love the description.
Shooting against the sky with a darker subject in front, - many of us when we start photography have a natural tendency to try to compensate for the brightness by adding -1 exposure compensation, exactly as youve done here. After a wjile we get to understand something important: the camera has already recognised the bright sky, and is planning to underexpose the image; so adding more underexposure is going in the wrong direction. In circumstances like this, dark subject bright sky behind, you do the opposite. You need to anticipate that the camera will underexpose, and add a POSITIVE exposure compensation.
In this case, some this like a +2/3 or a +1. IF however you want the man as a silhouette, use MORE negative compensation, like -2.
The mod is approximately a +1.66, so that cancels your -1, and adds +.66.
Just now noticed that Moira has said the same thing as Ive said!
I hope this helps
Regards
Willie
Shooting against the sky with a darker subject in front, - many of us when we start photography have a natural tendency to try to compensate for the brightness by adding -1 exposure compensation, exactly as youve done here. After a wjile we get to understand something important: the camera has already recognised the bright sky, and is planning to underexpose the image; so adding more underexposure is going in the wrong direction. In circumstances like this, dark subject bright sky behind, you do the opposite. You need to anticipate that the camera will underexpose, and add a POSITIVE exposure compensation.
In this case, some this like a +2/3 or a +1. IF however you want the man as a silhouette, use MORE negative compensation, like -2.
The mod is approximately a +1.66, so that cancels your -1, and adds +.66.
Just now noticed that Moira has said the same thing as Ive said!
I hope this helps
Regards
Willie
Thank you Moira for your comment,
I'm very happy as the choice of black and white tones was after looking your portfolio.
Actually the fact to cut or not the rod and where to cut it was really tricky and I didn't back down to not mess my shoes with mud, now when I read your comment I regret not having done so :-( I believe that a photo deserve such sacrifice.
I tried many exposure conpensation but all of them were minus compensation as there was no sun shining, I'll take in consideration plus compensation in my next shots and see the results.
I took other photos in this area I didn't publish them yet as I would practice a little bit on "Making phase" you told me in my previous photo, I'll publish them soon and I hope they'll be criticized.
Thank again for pushing me to improve
I'm very happy as the choice of black and white tones was after looking your portfolio.
Actually the fact to cut or not the rod and where to cut it was really tricky and I didn't back down to not mess my shoes with mud, now when I read your comment I regret not having done so :-( I believe that a photo deserve such sacrifice.
I tried many exposure conpensation but all of them were minus compensation as there was no sun shining, I'll take in consideration plus compensation in my next shots and see the results.
I took other photos in this area I didn't publish them yet as I would practice a little bit on "Making phase" you told me in my previous photo, I'll publish them soon and I hope they'll be criticized.
Thank again for pushing me to improve
Thanks for your feedback. The Critique Gallery is really about making us all think harder, including the Critique Team. We are all pushing ourselves to improve.
Thank you willie for your comment,
I'm very happy today as I learned new trick about exposure compensation, I'll do plus compensation on my next shots and let you see the results, your modification is great you added more light and kept the details of the clouds in the right top corner, I was unable to do it (maybe I was impatient).
Thank you again for pushing me to improve
Akram
I'm very happy today as I learned new trick about exposure compensation, I'll do plus compensation on my next shots and let you see the results, your modification is great you added more light and kept the details of the clouds in the right top corner, I was unable to do it (maybe I was impatient).
Thank you again for pushing me to improve
Akram
Thank you John for your comment,
Actually I found out that I have a lack on applying exposure compensation, I made search on Internet yesterday to understand better exposure compensation and I found some exercises (based on low key and high key shots with and without exposure conpensation ) to do indoor that let me understand better.
I have other shots I made yesterday but all of them have the same exposure compensation (now I know where to focus
) .
I will do the exercises and then try to make shots in the same conditions of this picture.
Thank you again for your advise
Actually I found out that I have a lack on applying exposure compensation, I made search on Internet yesterday to understand better exposure compensation and I found some exercises (based on low key and high key shots with and without exposure conpensation ) to do indoor that let me understand better.
I have other shots I made yesterday but all of them have the same exposure compensation (now I know where to focus
) .I will do the exercises and then try to make shots in the same conditions of this picture.
Thank you again for your advise
to see if I can get the same mod
In m opinion, you did not make a mistake cutting the rod. A fishing rod can be very long and destroy the balance of a composition. I would come in even tighter to the man - it is pretty obvious what he is doing so the whole rod is not needed.
I shoot some angling images and often crop rods unless they are angled low in front of the angler or bent into a fish. There is not a lot of professional angling photography as stills, but look at some - rods are often cropped off.
The main problem here is under exposure resulting in a rather flat grey image. It needs a brighter shot with more contrast and impact.
Paul
I shoot some angling images and often crop rods unless they are angled low in front of the angler or bent into a fish. There is not a lot of professional angling photography as stills, but look at some - rods are often cropped off.
The main problem here is under exposure resulting in a rather flat grey image. It needs a brighter shot with more contrast and impact.
Paul
