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Talking about this photo.

Unfortunately this did not have any exif data.

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.

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.
 
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Very very harsh sunlight. (Its really difficult capture good portraits i such harsh sunlights without reflectors and what not)

Difficult yes, but if the sunlight is used correctly, it can result in beautiful portraits too. But yeah no escaping PP in such situations, as you have to selectively under-expose a picture, there is so much only an "intelligent" camera can do. But nothing like the morning and evening light for portraits.

Harish: Also check if your metering is set to Evaluative metering (I think by default its evaluative only)

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.
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...

OT: Doc did you buy a DSLR? your Flickr stream isnt updated since a long time...
 
medpal said:
Talking about this photo.

Unfortunately this did not have any exif data.

f8 at 1/499

ISO 100

Exp bias -0.7

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.

I felt like capturing them at that moment, so I did. I agree that it could have been a much better shot but then I was just testing to see how much would the exposure be affect with certain change in aperture. Flash would have made a big difference for sure.

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.

The errors in my pics and all the advice that you guys have given has taught me a lesson and shall improve when I come across similar conditions. I feel more confident now and shall implement the corrections.
Aces170 said:
Harish: Also check if your metering is set to Evaluative metering (I think by default its evaluative only)

No mate. None of the pics were taken with Evaluative mode. Used spot mode and partial mode for a few to experiment with.
 
Aces170 said:
OT: Doc did you buy a DSLR? your Flickr stream isnt updated since a long time...
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.

DSLR, yes its in pipeline will update once I get the confirmed news.
 
No mate. None of the pics were taken with Evaluative mode. Used spot mode and partial mode for a few to experiment with.

Use evaluative metering, it should help. A readup on the evaluative metering function can be found here

Ideally the spot metering mode should have worked, but there is a work around mention, do try it and post if it helps?
 
YES ,all my pictures are processed .some are less or some are more .

this involves :

levels ,contrast ,brightness ,curves etc

@harish_21_10: you will need to use fill flash whenever background is brighter than your subject .

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medpal said:
Aces doesnt the fruits look bit overexposed even with exposure bias on negetive side.
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...