My First Kite

[Lochnar]

This is my first post here. I welcome all constructive feedback, no need to be gentle but don't be cruel for cruel sake :-)

This is a picture of my daughter flying her first kite ever near Lake Chelan, WA. I tried to capture both her and the kite up in the air. I tried something new with my shots, I layed on the ground at her feet and used a focal length of 18mm to capture the distance between her and the kite. I used an apeture priority to control the depth of field. I seemed to have not been paying attention to my settings since I had set it to f/5 and it should have been more like f/11 to get a clean image of the kite as well, which was my original goal. I shot this with my Canon Rebel XTi and the 18-55mm EF-S kit lens. I used Light Room 2 to increase the Greens and Blues a bit because my Rebel always seems to have flat colors in RAW.

I really love the framing on this picture and the fact I was able to capture the distance of the kite. I do wish I would have been paying attention to my apeture and been able to get the kite in focus as well.

[PWhite214]

It is still a good photo of an event to be remembered. I love the angle

Phil

[bigcat]

Originally Posted by Lochnar

This is my first post here. I welcome all constructive feedback, no need to be gentle but don't be cruel for cruel sake :-)

This is a picture of my daughter flying her first kite ever near Lake Chelan, WA. I tried to capture both her and the kite up in the air. I tried something new with my shots, I layed on the ground at her feet and used a focal length of 18mm to capture the distance between her and the kite. I used an apeture priority to control the depth of field. I seemed to have not been paying attention to my settings since I had set it to f/5 and it should have been more like f/11 to get a clean image of the kite as well, which was my original goal. I shot this with my Canon Rebel XTi and the 18-55mm EF-S kit lens. I used Light Room 2 to increase the Greens and Blues a bit because my Rebel always seems to have flat colors in RAW.

I really love the framing on this picture and the fact I was able to capture the distance of the kite. I do wish I would have been paying attention to my apeture and been able to get the kite in focus as well.

Nice, could have been better if you would have shifted slightly towards the right.
The thread would be in a line , you could have avoided the sun's glare and your daughter would be more centered.

[Lochnar]

thank you for the comments. @Big Cat, yeah you are right about the kite string, it would have been nicer if it was one line. I am actually a big fan of lens flare, before I had a camera and was using photoshop 3, the first thing i would do is lens flare something

[Sachis2112]

I happen to know this little girl (and in the interest of full disclosure, the poster as well) and I'm impressed that he was able to get a shot of her at all. She's a bit of a busy body, at least while I'm around. I would have expected that she moved too fast to get a shot from a laying down position.

[ChristopheG]

Nice photo! The angle is very good to show the girl and kite same time.

[Gaurav Prabhu]

Nice angle but rule-of-thirds would have helped here by aligning the kite at a right side where the sky is seen vacant.

[AshNZ]

Originally Posted by Lochnar

I do wish I would have been paying attention to my apeture and been able to get the kite in focus as well.

When I first saw the picture, this is exactly what came to my mind, would have loved the kite in the focus as well. That said, great shot and nice angle.

[sedetweiler]

I agree. My eye expected to see the kite in focus. However, what you have isn't bad in the least. If it was me, I would probably take a photo with each in focus and combine them.

[aprillove20]

It looks unusually great....


it really looks so unique, though you can surely do better than that.