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[Don'tblink]

I took this picture in Acadia, Maine. Just tried to take a hotel view at diff. angel... this is my first try. Is this a good coposition? how could i have improved this picture?
Without going on theory i tried to took a picture which ever way my eyes like to see @ diff. angel. do you think that way you can have good composition?

[ryandaleySD]

Originally Posted by Don'tblink

I took this picture in Acadia, Maine. Just tried to take a hotel view at diff. angel... this is my first try. Is this a good coposition? how could i have improved this picture?
Without going on theory i tried to took a picture which ever way my eyes like to see @ diff. angel. do you think that way you can have good composition?

I am by no way a professional photographer. Just wanted to state that before my opinion. The focal length seems to be set too far back. I like the angle, but with the flowers and stuff up front and out of focus, ascetically, it just doesnt look right and my eyes have a hard time focusing on what I should be looking at.

I think if the flowers in the forfront where in focus, with the background not being the major part of the picture it may have turned out a little better.

This is totally just my opinion though.

[Don'tblink]

I agree with you that if i have focus flowers but i wanted to take main subject as couple with hotel background.

and there are few technique with aparture settings in which you can make it defocus front and main subject as background.
Here, is another picture which i have focused hotel background and another picture with the front flower focused.

[navcom]

Originally Posted by Don'tblink

I agree with you that if i have focus flowers but i wanted to take main subject as couple with hotel background.

and there are few technique with aparture settings in which you can make it defocus front and main subject as background.
Here, is another picture which i have focused hotel background and another picture with the front flower focused.

I think in the picture on your first post, you have the right intention. I would agree that the out of focus flowers make the picture a bit confusing. In proper composition, you want elements that lead you "into" the picture and to the center of interest, not make the eye wade through items trying to find it. If your center of interest were up front and the background was out of focus, you would achieve the effect.

I think what I'm trying to say is that the flowers are kind of cluttering the image. When I was taught years ago by a wise old "master"......he constantly drove into me that when composing an image, find out what the center of interest is and then work to eliminate all elements that will detract from it. All the rules of photography "orbit" around this one principle...in a manner of speaking. Of course, all rules are meant to be broken...and he is still wiser than me at photography.

[kencaleno]

Nothing in the image is in sharp focus,there is no main subject,and vertical lines aren't vertical,and composition is not good-refer to sticky on how to compose.Regards, Ken

[Austin_HXC]

On your second post, I like the first picture, but in the second picture you can definately tell the flash was fired. The first thing I thought when I saw it was that the plant was not naturally lit.

[PhotoNewt]

Originally Posted by Don'tblink

I agree with you that if i have focus flowers but i wanted to take main subject as couple with hotel background...

If this was the intent, the image failed. Is nice that you explored a different angle and tried to frame it with some foreground elements, but as everyone else stated this took the focus away from the subject and caused the image to look cluttered. Simplicity is usually your best friend.

If you wanted to keep the same viewpoint, there are a few things I would have done differently. First, get closer so the flowers are out of the frame and the couple becomes a larger element of the image. Use a telephoto lens rather than wideangle to better isolate the couple. Change the composition to portait orientation to eliminate most of the background clutter and use a larger aperture to through the background out of focus, further enhancing the couple as the main subject.