Michael K. Shaw |
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How to capture an award winning photo?
What tips can you share with me that I may have done differently to have made these images award winning?
October 06, 2012
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Peter W. Marks |
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Hi Michael. I'm sure you didn't intend that the cruise-ship image should be on its side. I should go back to BP Edit Image and delete it, then reload it from your file folder after you have rotated it by 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
Good luck. Pete
October 06, 2012
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Michael K. Shaw |
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Hi Pete, Sorry!! I can be a real dunce sometimes. Thank's so much for letting me know so that I could correct the image. Hope this is much better. Thank's again! Michael
October 06, 2012
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Peter W. Marks |
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Um, Michael! I think you forgot to reload the ship image.
Now as for the Porsche image. Excellant, and wouldn't we both like to have one like that? Pete
October 06, 2012
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Michael K. Shaw |
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" yellow porsche, south beach, Miami "
My wife and I were spending the day in south beach, Miami when we saw this baby. Couldn't resist snapping a image.
Michael K. Shaw
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" Past and Present "
We were being taken back to the cruise ship after spending the day in the Cayman islands and had an opportunity to capture this image. 1/500, f/5.6, iso 400.
Michael K. Shaw
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Whoops!!! Dog gone-it, I deleted and did my edit, thought I uploaded back to this page, but no image. Wondering what I've done wrong. Pete, please forgive me, it's pretty obvious that I'm not a rocket scientist ( lol ). Michael
October 07, 2012
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Michael K. Shaw |
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Hi Pete, I think I've finally succeeded in getting both images uploaded. Thank you your imput and your patience. Michael
October 07, 2012
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Lynn R. Powers |
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Ship the car to me, I'll pay the shipping cost, and I will take a bunch of photos and send you six 20x30 photos so you can see what you did wrong. Please remove the palm tree from the car so the truck can get under the overpasses.:=) "...Considered snapping a image...", and that is what you got- a snapshot. It is a beautiful car though. The background is in conflict with the car, per the tree. This car deserves many close ups of its fine design and style. For a photo of the entire car a clean background would work much better and instead of taking a photo from the rear quarter it would be better from the front quarter. Also mid day lighting should be avoided. You asked how to take "Award winning" photos and unfortunately you were not in a position to move the car to another place so for you your goal was unfortunately impossible to do. At first I thought this photo was taken with a Canon because the yellow car is blown out, overexposed, as is the reds on the photos in your gallery. This is a simple thing to correct. When taking the picture in bright light adjust the exposure compesation to -1/2 to -2/3. The background won't notice the lesser light and the car will look better. You should have heard me moan and groan when I saw a beautiful yellow Corvette with red pin stripes while usiing a Canon. And I also was stuck with mid-day lighting. As for the old sailing vessel and ship once again you had no control of the view that you needed for an outstanding photo. It would have been better if you had more of a side shot of the sailing vessel and opened up the lens more to blur out the ship somewhat. Also the horizon line, in this case water line, is not level. I checked out your gallery and really liked the "Grasshopper". What little yellow there was on it was shaded by the tree and was not blown out. Please let me know when I can expect the car to arrive.
Huh?? When WHAT freezes over? :=)
October 07, 2012
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Michael K. Shaw |
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Hi Lynn, You wouldn't believe how much drooling I did over this baby and to top that off, a few minutes later, you wouldn't believe what sped by and I couldn't get a shot off. Seriously though, I do appreciate your suggestions and your time. I'll do my best to put these suggestions to work. Thank you. Michael P.S. When I finally found the owner and asked if he would sell his baby, I think that was the answer I got, When *&%& freezes over.
October 07, 2012
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