My first attempts at Long Exposure

[petrockmedia]

The following are my first attmepts at long exposure photography with ND filters. Any suggestions and crituques are strongly encouraged and welcomed. Even if you believe these are the most horrendous, god awful photos you have ever seen its all welcomed.

[Corey Thompson]

I like the first shot the best. It looks the most evenly exposed and I like the effect you captured with the water and the tree blowing in the background. The water and rocks on the second one look under exposed, a bit too dark for me, and there isn't anything really interesting about it to hold my attention for more than a second or two. Same with the third, there isn't anything interesting enough about it to hold my attention. Also the horizon on the third shot looks a tad bit off, but that can be fixed easily in PhotoShop or lightroom. Hope this helps a little. I'm sure there are others who can drop in and offer more advice. Thanks for sharing.

[Krusty79]

Welcome to DPS. You're actually only supposed to post one image in the Critique section and ask for feedback on specific aspects.

That being said, I agree with Corey. They all look somewhat underexposed to me, especially the 2nd one. The first one has the strongest subject and that makes it the best one for me also. The 3rd one doesn't really have a subject. You should get familiar with the histogram function in your camera to try to avoid over/underexposing your shots. If you shot RAW, you should be able to bump up the brightness more than a jpg without getting noise. Of course, bracketing your shots is a good idea also.