Very first sunset shoot

[Dette]

Hi,

I've just started doing an online photography course (using film until I can afford a digi), so any thoughts on my shot would be greatly appreciated. I have attempted to crop, and adjust the colours using GIMP (still learning the software). Is the saturation of the colours too much? The image is a bit grainy as it has been scanned to be edited, so help of reducing that using software would be awesum!

Thanks!!

[KansaiGreenie]

Hi Dette,

If you are taking an online photo course, I'm sure that you are going to get better feedback than anything I can say here.

I've just started doing an online photography course

What course are you doing? I like taking online photo courses and I'm always looking for a good one.

...any thoughts on my shot would be greatly appreciated.

I think that this is a pretty nice image. I like silhouettes and I think you did a good job.

...I have attempted to crop...

Personally I think that the crop is too tight. Some of the branches on the right side have been cut off as well as the very top of the tree. Because the colors in the sky are so nice, I think it would be better to let the tree have some space to breathe in the wonderful colors.

Is the saturation of the colours too much?

No I don't think so. Images like this lend themselves toward deep, saturated colors.

I hope that helps.

KG

[Dette]

Hi KG,

My course is throught The Photography Institute in NZ (The Photography Institute - Become a Freelance Photographer or Start an Exciting New Hobby!), but Im only up to learning about aperature and ISO's, so this was a shoot I just did on automatic settings as the manual ones meant nothing to me

Thank you for your comments about cropping and the colours. The original image wasn't so tight, but my other half scanned it on an angle and cut part of it off.

Would you know how to soften the grainyness or resolution of the image? The print itself is matte, so Im not sure if that would contribute to the issue when it was scanned? A friend has suggested scanning the film which might help.

Cheers.

[NicoleScraps]

Just my 2 cents, but if I were shooting with film instead of digital, I wouldn't even bother with getting actual prints. I would take the film and have it put straight to disk, then edit and only print what I felt was print worthy.

[KansaiGreenie]

Hi Dette,

That looks like a great course. You're going to learn a ton.

Would you know how to soften the grainyness or resolution of the image?

What you want to do is reduce the noise. There are lots of ways to do that, but I don't use the same software as you, so I can't tell you how. But if you google it I'm sure that you will come across a number of tutorials.

The print itself is matte, so Im not sure if that would contribute to the issue when it was scanned?

I'm not an expert on scanning, so I have no idea.

A friend has suggested scanning the film which might help.

That's what I used to do. I never scanned the prints, but it is probably been at 10 years since I've scanned anything. In fact, I found it so troublesome and rarely got good results that what I used to do was to have the lab scan my film when they developed it and then give me a CD. This was a lot easier for me and only cost about $5 a roll.

Hope that helps

[windrider86]

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[Dette]

Originally Posted by windrider86

You may want to take a peek at the rule-guidelines so you can fulfill everything they ask for. Please and thank you

Hiya,

Thanks for the note, however, I had read the rules and thought I had followed them apart from the EXIF info and the type of camera. This is all new to me, is there anything I've missed? Much appreciated.

Thanks