Flower and more flowers

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This is my school assignment shoot.. I am to choose a specialisation and i chose nature.. i am posting all pics that i took inclusive of those bad shots/over/under-exposed/repetitive shots..
my other assignment is panoramic shoot, here: Panoramic cLubSnap

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[NikF601]

Some flower shoot out of focus, try to blur the background and your subject will "pop up".....

 

[SkyStrike]

Playing with curves and contrast will help make your subject too. Some shots are as mentioned OOF (I guess is the wind + abit of body movement). In particular, I find that your reds are abit over saturated in many cases.

btw, I like the concept/design of #34, but (imo) it still needs some push in curves to make it really pop.

 

[pinholecam]

I think you should really weed down the repeated shots. They tire out the viewer and in the end you will lose out, as the viewer looses interest, just scrolls down or jumps out of the thread.

Colors (esp. warm tones) are too saturated. Go easy on the PP.

Watch for focus and where you are focusing with each shot. Many are OOF.



Keep trying

 

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Some flower shoot out of focus, try to blur the background and your subject will "pop up".....

Playing with curves and contrast will help make your subject too. Some shots are as mentioned OOF (I guess is the wind + abit of body movement). In particular, I find that your reds are abit over saturated in many cases.

btw, I like the concept/design of #34, but (imo) it still needs some push in curves to make it really pop.

Yeah.. actually there are more that are oof.. i eliminate them from posting here.. i have about a total of 110-120 shots.. but did not upload most of them.. when i view back on the camera, looks ok.. only after i transfer over to pc then i see all the faults.. i have yet to DI those pics.. will try the curves and contrast..

I think you should really weed down the repeated shots. They tire out the viewer and in the end you will lose out, as the viewer looses interest, just scrolls down or jumps out of the thread.

Colors (esp. warm tones) are too saturated. Go easy on the PP.

Watch for focus and where you are focusing with each shot. Many are OOF.

Keep trying

Haha.. I expected that to happen as well with my repeated shots.. i think i will set a new picture control setting for a reduced warm tone.. when i view on pc monitor, i also find that they are too saturated.. but every clicking session a day i learn something new..

Thanks guys.. i need to do more shooting to get better and natural..

 

[Aloyz]

lots of nice flower, can i know where you go for all these flowers..are they all at one place?

 

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lots of nice flower, can i know where you go for all these flowers..are they all at one place?

yeah man.. all in one place.. pasir ris beach there.. i started my walk from the mangrove area, but i do not go in because there's not much to take there.. ahead of the mangrove swamp, you can find the maze area.. there are some plants and flower you can find there.. there is this HUGE tree also..

from there, i go down further where the big flight of stairs are.. if yo walk up the stairs and down the opposite, walk further straight, try to look for a mini garden of flowers.. it was in the process of completing when i went there.. very nice garden.. you should visit there..

if you the signboard below, you're in the right place..

 

[kutten]

Yes, the picture control does play a part on the picture output. The following comparison are based on the different Picture control settings. No PP has done to it.
Try avoid using Vivid or landscape with high saturation; as you may always think that this will give you a very color photo. :nono:This will cause the red channel histogram to move out of the tonal range. Try using the Neutral PC mode and play around with the saturation levels, shoot the picture and observe the histogram; not the brightness histogram but the luminance histogram (the RGB Channel) and make sure the red channel especially is not out the range.

Personally I prefer Fuji Velvia mode. This is good for flowers. You can google it, download and install into your camera.

this is the enlarge photo with Fuji Velvia mode, saturation level set to 1

Some of your photos are over saturation, try not to push so hard on your post processing.

 

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Yes, the picture control does play a part on the picture output. The following comparison are based on the different Picture control settings. No PP has done to it.
Try avoid using Vivid or landscape with high saturation; as you may always think that this will give you a very color photo. :nono:This will cause the red channel histogram to move out of the tonal range. Try using the Neutral PC mode and play around with the saturation levels, shoot the picture and observe the histogram; not the brightness histogram but the luminance histogram (the RGB Channel) and make sure the red channel especially is not out the range.

Personally I prefer Fuji Velvia mode. This is good for flowers. You can google it, download and install into your camera.

this is the enlarge photo with Fuji Velvia mode, saturation level set to 1

Some of your photos are over saturation, try not to push so hard on your post processing.

this is great info!.. will look for the velvia and try it out.. those pics are straight from the cam.. have yet to do any pp..

 

[kutten]

this is great info!.. will look for the velvia and try it out.. those pics are straight from the cam.. have yet to do any pp..

download from here. Installation instruction is in "readme.txt".

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