Doesnt Pop like i thought it would :(

[Fuzz62]

as already said about colours just needs a curve adjustment (id quick select the background in photoshop the just adjust the red).

You have lens distortion at the top of the photo, i would either crop it out or pull the lines back straight.

good picture though

mark

[wulf]

The hydrant, bright against a darker background, stands out as the subject but I think you need to do more to make the best of it. My particular suggestions would be:

Get it in sharp focus

Give it a bit of space at the left side of the frame

Get it standing straight (at the moment it leans to the right and the lines on the wall make this even more obvious)

There are also some good points above about colour. Some of that can be fixed in post processing but always try to make as much as you can of your main subject in camera.

BTW, if this is somewhere near where you live, how about trying the "roll of film" game to build your skills. Go back and take 36 shots (a common size for a roll of film) of the subject, trying to make each one excellent and different from the others. To get to 36, you will have to stretch your imagination and try all sorts of angles, camera settings and the like. You might still end up with only one or two images that you want to keep; in fact, see if you can whittle it down to five or less that you will keep, then come back and show us the very best one.

It will be a challenge but your photographic "muscle" will grow as the result of it.

Wulf

[graciousness]

Originally Posted by wulf

The hydrant, bright against a darker background, stands out as the subject but I think you need to do more to make the best of it. My particular suggestions would be:

Get it in sharp focus

Give it a bit of space at the left side of the frame

Get it standing straight (at the moment it leans to the right and the lines on the wall make this even more obvious)

There are also some good points above about colour. Some of that can be fixed in post processing but always try to make as much as you can of your main subject in camera.

BTW, if this is somewhere near where you live, how about trying the "roll of film" game to build your skills. Go back and take 36 shots (a common size for a roll of film) of the subject, trying to make each one excellent and different from the others. To get to 36, you will have to stretch your imagination and try all sorts of angles, camera settings and the like. You might still end up with only one or two images that you want to keep; in fact, see if you can whittle it down to five or less that you will keep, then come back and show us the very best one.

It will be a challenge but your photographic "muscle" will grow as the result of it.

Wulf

Oh my god, I've never read this roll of film suggestion before! What a brilliant idea!! Better and easier to do than the 365 project......hehe...

I'm going to do this tomorrow!! Cheers!!

- Grace

[danbaileyphoto]

What Sterling said, with the added notion of this- Not only is the hydrant blue, it's extreme white-ness overpowered your camera meter and threw off the exposure. What should have been a bright, vivid red wall was dropped into a dark, muted wall because the entire scene was underexposed to compensate for the white hydrant.

In a case like this, you need to either use exposure compensation by +1 or +2 stops, or else adjust manually.