harish_21_10
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Very very harsh sunlight. (Its really difficult capture good portraits i such harsh sunlights without reflectors and what not)
Bang on! one of the important points in composition, people will always be unwanted matter when taking pictures of any landscape/monument. It distracts the viewer...We are always enthusiast in such a way that like mass, we put people in front of monument / landscape set up camera with widest zoom out possible and shoot away, ultimately no one is happy neither people nor landscape / monument.
medpal said:
medpal said:Few points I could make out.
What was you intention to take this photo?
If it was portrait than your composition is too big (I mean there is lot of unnecessary background besides people). What i feel is if you are taking a portrait than you need to zoom in as much near to the person as possible so as to fit in face or body in frame.
Very very harsh sunlight. (Its really difficult capture good portraits i such harsh sunlights without reflectors and what not)
probably absence of fill in flash.
medpal said:So those factors combined have ruined the faces in your photo.
Even in my initial days into the photography I used to take such photos, people in front with big background horizon to fill in the photograph, but now as i read and try to learn more about photography i came to know that I was doing wrong.
We are always enthusiast in such a way that like mass, we put people in front of monument / landscape set up camera with widest zoom out possible and shoot away, ultimately no one is happy neither people nor landscape / monument.
In addition CPL / Polarizing filters are for skies and clouds iirc. If you are to use on people it will dampen the pic instead of helping it out.
Just my thoughts, hope gurus here will have more thoughts on this.
Aces170 said:Harish: Also check if your metering is set to Evaluative metering (I think by default its evaluative only)
Have been busy since early days of Navratri, so have not been able to do anything related to photography, let 20th december come and I will be a lot more free and will update more.Aces170 said:OT: Doc did you buy a DSLR? your Flickr stream isnt updated since a long time...
No mate. None of the pics were taken with Evaluative mode. Used spot mode and partial mode for a few to experiment with.
Nothing I could do, but actually it was a early morning light, where I have heavily under exposed in PP. If you notice the background is pretty dark. Let me hunt for the RAW file...medpal said:Aces doesnt the fruits look bit overexposed even with exposure bias on negetive side.