First post here. Was back in June i took this photo, Bush fires all over Melbourne were making a sunset i cant forget easy and i took a photo with my old camera.
I like it. Looks like it could be very slightly overexposed and if you had an angle roughly 120* to the right, allowing you to capture the face of the boarder, it might be a little better. But then of course you probably wouldn't get the sunset.
Just a thought and since you were asking for comments, I thought I'd contribute something. Overall I like it.
Thank you RyM17 & Fool, I just wanted to see what someone would say. Hard to get a comment on this site. His shirt is blown out a small amount, was just before i invested in a external light meter.
Honestly, a decent shot. I like it. But I'd love it if you'd droped the ambient exposure a little to darken the sunset, which would increase the contrast between the rider's face/shirt, and the sunset, and give more saturated colors to the sunset. As it is, the lightness of the riders shirt/face kind of gets lost in the lightness of the sky.
Alternatively, if you shot in RAW, processing 2 versions, one with less exposure on the sky, and the other with the existing exposure on the subject, with a blend in PP could make all the difference.
hfillmore, Thank you for taking the time in that comment. Words like that always make me think on how i can shoot it next time. But with the blending photo editing im not into the editing side. I'm kinda old school with Shooting photos, Shoot/levels/contrast/resize/post, im very basic. And this was shot in RAW. Thanks again.
Ryan Joyce wrote:
hfillmore, Thank you for taking the time in that comment. Words like that always make me think on how i can shoot it next time. But with the blending photo editing im not into the editing side. I'm kinda old school with Shooting photos, Shoot/levels/contrast/resize/post, im very basic. And this was shot in RAW. Thanks again.
I'm with you Ryan.... I hate the whole computer/PP thing. I really disdain spending hours on a shot to try to make up for what I couldn't get "in camera". In fact, I've never "blended" a multiple processed photo in my life. Just not my bag. I only mentioned it because I know that it can be done, and that others do it.
What I try to do in shots like this is to set the camera in manual and take a few test shots to get the sky looking nice and saturated. Once I get the sky looking the way I want, I leave that exposure setting as it is, and thenstart shooting with the subjectl, messing around with the flash settings to bring the subject up to where I want it. If all goes well, sometimes it even works
Nice shot, the exposure is pretty good, a bit hot on the hand but otherwise good. Since the wood on the left adds nothing, you should shift a bit right and pan so that you get the same perspective (more or less) and you don't have the pole.
to do in shots like this is to set the camera in manual and take a few test shots to get the sky looking nice and saturated. Once I get the sky looking the way I want, I leave that exposure setting as it is, and thenstart shooting with the subjectl, messing around with the flash settings to bring the subject up to where I want it. If all goes well, sometimes it even works 