Looking for Honest Feed Back

[jmartinez]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to DPS first off and this if my first post.

I enjoy taking landscape and cityscape pictures and would like some honest feed back on this picture taken with a Nikon D3100, f/9, 1/320 sec. ISO-100 at 75mm. Hope that's everything you need. Also there was no PP, as I don't want to be critiqued on my photoshop skills.

If there are any suggestions it would be greatly apprecitated.

Thanks

[Krusty79]

Welcome to DPS. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to critique this because I don't know what you were going for in this shot. That might explain the lack of responses...

[jmartinez]

Just shot the picture, I just don't feel like it sharp enough, to me, it looks like it could use something else. Do you think my setting where okay for this shot?

[zenandzen]

Welcome to the forum.

When I look at this I cannot tell if it is a picture of distant mountains ruined by the dead tree or weather it's an image of a dead tree with a distracting background.

There does not seem to be a subject (framing-wise), but the two themes/scenes competing for attention and frankly for me it's a toss-up (neither is winning).
Maybe other angles/viewpoints would have allowed them both to share the space available in your viewfinder.

[jmartinez]

Thanks.....that's what I want to hear....I felt the same way about the shot myself....I wish I could have spent more time with it. I'm so new to this and with feed back like this I will learn a lot. Thanks again

[Krusty79]

zenandzen explained my issue. I could not tell if your subject was the branches or the distant mountains. Unfortunately, either way, I don't find either that compelling of a subject. You might choose something that is green and growing instead, unless you were purposely going for a more lifeless look. Your exposure and settings look okay, but I don't recommend shooting in the middle of the day if you can help it. You'll have a lot better light shooting in the golden hours. Try to take a closer look at pictures you like and how the subject matter contributes to the image and keep shooting!