Japanese Stroll Garden

[prince]

This is a photo I took in Japanese Stroll Garden, Springfield, MO. Its one of the most beautiful picture I have taken. I can say I just captured what I saw.

I am very new to photography so any tips, guidance would really help to improve.




Thanks

PS: for some reason I am not able to insert image in this message so please follow the link

EDIT: Should be able to see the pic in my post now.

[xxpinballxx]

nothing posted....are you using flickr? or another hosting site?

[prince]

Yes using Flickr, but unable to figure out how to insert images in my posts. Attachments are too small to post. I had to resize pics to small sizes.

Sorry for the inconvenience

[filemanager]

That's really pretty! It might be neat to make the sky more blue than white

[windrider86]

what you need to do is click on your picture in flickr and then go to see all sizes. Click on medium then below your picture you will see a bunch of codes for html. copy that and paste it here and you have your picture posted

[prince]

Awesome thanks

[tcohed]

I's a good Photo, but since the sky is pretty burned out, try to crop that and compare the look. You might want to expose for the highlights next time and them push the brightness of the darker areas later digitally.

[Robin Sarac]

It's a nice picture but I wonder if you could get more detail out of the sky.

[prince]

@tcohed - That was absolutely alien to me. Sorry am still learning. I guess in the first part you are talking about when I click the picture to expose the highlights?

@Robin Sarac - The image is raw. I have not done anything digitally and when I tried to add some sky in PS, it looks messed up.. Probably I am not doing a good job.

Appreciate your comments

[tcohed]

When you are metering the light, try to meter the sky. If you're in program mode or any other automated mode, compensate the exposure with the +/-. You can just shoot more pics of the same place with different exposure settings when you are starting. Then you'll see the differences and you can decide what you like most