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[ryancellan]

what can you say about this picture? any suggestions will be greatly appreciated..i would love to hear your comments. thanks!

exposure: 1/60 @ f 1.8
flash did not fire
Lens: 35mm f 1.8
ISO: 1000
Nikon D90

[MrJones]

it's a nice idea but the location is not really that good.
let's start with the motion / focus blur you've got there, shooting f/1.8 at 1/60 will almost definitely create problems.
other than that, the setting is just to cluttered, the glass shelf with the glasses over her head, the water bottles at the bottom or the toilet paper (?) at the center.. just kills it completely and that's without mentioning that black thing on the right.

[ryancellan]

hi Mr. Jones.. yes you are right about what you said.. i didn't saw the tissue paper. hehe.. as a beginner, that picture really look good to me, but it's really nice to know about those things in the picture that is not good (specially that black thing at the right side, her rear hair. i should not included that.) anyway thank you a lot..

[BigFuzzy]

Hi Ryan,

For me, and don't worry, I'm very very picky, the image is pretty much lost when it's not at all in focus, especially when it's a portrait.

I can imagine that the conditions were tough, but I think it's critical to get sharpness right on a portrait most of all so to me, the rest doesn't matter when that's off because, to me, it all starts with the eyes.

having said that, I like the idea, and with a few tweaks (and nailing the focus) this could be very interesting.

As mentioned, think about the clutter. The white vase in the middle and the back of her head are most distracting to me. I don't mind having stuff in the background/vicinity if it adds to the image or is some sort of contextual portrait, but in this case I'm not sure any of that stuff adds to the image.
So, in the future, if you don't feel it specifically adds to the image, lose it.

Keep posting!

[ryancellan]

hi BigFuzzy..

yes when I took that picture, I'm having a hard time setting the right exposure. i didn't set the ISO to higher value because I don't want it to look too noisy. Thank you so much for your effort of letting me know those idea about those things in the picture. It really help me a lot.

have a nice day!

[ryancellan]

hi BigFuzzy..

yes when I took that picture, I'm having a hard time setting the right exposure. i didn't set the ISO to higher value because I don't want it to look too noisy. Thank you so much for your effort of letting me know those idea about those things in the picture. It really help me a lot.

have a nice day!