Karl Witt
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 p.1 #5 · Sunlit leaf - C&C welcome... | |
Hey Mike
I think the first shot had better potential, needed different composition. My suggestion, spend some time in the macro forum looking at shots and reading critique, I have found it very helpful.
You might print this out as it is and play with two pieces of paper and change the cropping and then I think you will begin to see. Stay away from centering, take a peak at the 'rule of thirds' application to photography. I think you have a few subjects here but did not work them to make them stand out.
The second shot if sharp would have crowded the frame to much, and you would have wanted to remove the part of leaf in lower right corner too. Letting the trailing leaf tip appear in the lower left would have helped this shot.
Notice how that background behind the tree is appealing, imagine framing either one of your leaf shots to that background! Slide that tree to the right in this picture and it gets better. Make that hole in the tree appear anywhere other than center and it keeps improving.
Look at lots of pictures here in macro and nature and study the ones that you like and realize what makes them likable and I think you will dramtically improve your next shots. I believe you can do it!
Oh, have fun too...........take many different angles, and move things around and take lots of shots of these simple subjects and you will see how the photographer actually puts it together
Karl
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