Need your advice
I'm a newbie in the photography world - and I recently purchased my dream dSLR. This image is from one of my latest trips. I need advice on how this image could be better or any other general opinion.
Thanks,
Trishul
You have two competing subjects now -- the sunset and the bench. Pick one, and make it the focus of the frame.
I think the bench makes a good foreground element, and could be "supported" by a beautiful sunset. A step to the right eliminates the tree bits that Bd pointed out, and compose the sun so it isn't so much in the center.
A VERY slight underexposure will help saturate the colors, but that can also be done in post. I'd try to get the shadow details in the original.
In short, take a step right, get lower to make the bench more prominent in the frame and balance the bench with the sun (recompose).
Matthew
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I had actually recomposed this shot - and I'm attaching it here. Thanks a ton for your time - your suggestions are invaluable. This is the first time am getting such a lot of good suggestions and am sure this will help me get better with time.
Thanks again,
Trishul.
However, you've made the bench more of a distraction than a "supporting element". In general triangles in corners are to be avoided (though like any ART rule, can and should be broken at times). And you could argue that it works here.
Any cropping decision should be absolute. Not kind of, sort of a crop. Be authoritarian with the framing.
Matthew
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
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