My D50 Photography

i liked the ones with the sleeping liion and the giraffe. it was all good but work on getting good angles and different filters for different lights. legit though

That one of the sunset would be so much better if you could erase that little yellow dot in the grass.
Other then that very nice and clear
Where were they taken?

In advanced i am really sorry if my comments come out negative, i am trying to do a positive critique here so if sound to harsh i appologize, but here me out:

1. Alright this one is one of my favs from your bunch, sharp clear, i got scared just looking at it

2. I see you were trying to get the filtered light through the clouds, but besides from that its not that interesting of a shot, maybe a smaller aperature for a longer period of time would help this effect

3. Doesn't appeal to me, not that sharp

4. A fine pic although birds could be a bit sharper, colour looks a bit underexposed, if you have the power maybe zoom to get a close up shot.. just another idea

5. Great moment, although compositionaly it doesn't work that great for me. Heres my reasoning, you focused the animal in the middle, now i am not sure if you understand rule of thirds but basically google it, artistically it makes the image a lot more appealing which would have worked great for this image, sorry if i sound a bit of a negative nancy

6. Again, centre to much, and a bit underexposed...and maybe instead of trying for the back unless you have a cool background try get the front side, which will show a bit more emotion, thus making the image more interesting for the viewer

7. underexposed, not to sharp, colours lack the certain colour punch that i prefer, but thats my opinon, read my comment about post production below

8. Not to interesting of a shot, and again could be sharper, maybe not as cropped woudl have worked nicer....?

9. One of yoru best shots, great moment..i think personally i would have tried for the sunset, and then tried for a sillhouette of the tree, but still a great shot, althogh the grass is a bit dull

10. Front view better than back side, but interesting shot, giraffs are awesome so i dont really want to critize this shot haha

11. Zoom more, to capture the moment better of the two girraffs, althogh this may have not been possible

12. Awesome front shot of the Giraffs haha, could be zoomed or croped a bit more for my preference because again it is centred.


REOCCURING PROBLEM: a lot of you shots lack a bit of strong colour that i think would make them that much better, i am not sure if you do this but post processing can really help on the underexposure problems(IMHO) that you had.

What lens were you using because i think some of the shots should have been using a faster shutter speed and thus a wider aperture


Anyways man you've got a ton of potential and you've deff got an eye for photography. Keep up the great photography, and keep us up to date with new work. Take care and hopefully this helps. If you have any questions feel free to PM and i will do my best.

Pippin

Some cool shots in there. I'm jealous of all the crazy wildlife you have seen. Some good sunset shots in there too...

One thing I'd say though is manually set the white balance using a white peice of paper. The white balence seemed a little off on a couple of the shots.

Good Work!

i agree for sure
and again i dont want to come off as negative or a dick

a few other things i noticed are

3. its not very interesting. put the subject off center and try to sharpen it up

5. Agreed with the centered shot, and there is a branch or something in the top of the frame that is distracting, otherwise great moment

9. try to get rid of that little dot in the grass

i forgot what number it was i think number 10 with the birds on the giraffe. i think a front view wouldn't show the birds, which is what makes this shot interesting. sharpen it and get some more color

another reoccurring thing is the "safety shot" or dead centering your subject. try to use the rule of thirds and your pictures will be much better

just keep experimenting with stuff and keep asking for feedback

hope this helped

taken in africa 2 years ago

i love the one with the sunset and the tree silhouette. seen a couple of this trip before and i've really enjoyed seeing the new additions that i have not seen before. great work

possible ideas i have are pannig (keep the skier still in your frame of your camera while moving through the air to get a blur background but in focus skiier

lighitng is usually not an issue when you are out on the hill during the day because its outdoors and the snow is very reflective of any sun that happens to be poking through the clouds, which should help out

try sequences..open up that aperature, and get a fast shutter speed going, while on a tripod

2nd one is super sick

thanks pippin. so it appears i need to help the camera focus on the skier and not the background

....well not necessarily its just another way other than the standard shot...what lenses do you have?

a sigma 30-400mm lense for long distance shit, a standard 18-32mm [?] lense that came with the camera. i plain on getting a medium range lense around chistmas

f what on the lens?

you've got to start thinking of getting your shots from different angles and working on having more than just a midground. you want to use your foreground and background. for example instead of just taking a shot of a lion in the dead center of the photo try getting behind some grass and using the rule of thirds (look it up) to add more life to your photos. IMO picture 4 did the most of that and was my favorite. keep it up.

4 was the best, work more on using the rule of thirds, and when you're putting them through post try enhancing the blacks a little more so they don't look quite as faded