Sea Horse and Coral

[Sanibelblondie]

Can someone tell me how I did with this picture. I'm new to photography and this camera and want feedback about composition, exposure, cropping etc. I don't have photoshop or any other software except for the edits in Flickr and iphoto.

Canon EOS 500D Rebel T1i
ISO 100 AV Mode 1/500 f/6.3 Auto White Balance Picture Style: Standard ,Flash did not fire.
Thanks for your time.

[Sanibelblondie]

Why hasn't anyone responded to this....is it that bad? Please help me with your comments. Thanks.

[boun]

Hi, first welcome second, critique: colors are very interesting especially yellow/blue combination, but you have a problem, head of this seahorse is alright, but the lower part confuses me, this big yellow coral and also something orange I see are in front of your object blocking it from my view. I like the angle, but maybe with different composition. Is this original? cause it looks like a crop to me?
I would prefer if you were on the same level as seahorse, and have him in front of corals
that's from me

[Sanibelblondie]

Hi Boun: Thanks for the critique. I've attached the original picture (before I started mucking with the color and cropping it). Maybe this view you can see better what I was trying to do. I basically placed a piece of coral on my window sill along with 2 glass balls and then placed the seahorse in the coral. Maybe I should start all over again.

Exif data

Camera Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 55 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire