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Old 12-31-2009, 05:10 AM
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I was going through some shots I took the other day and I found this one of my oldest daughter at the park. Is the composition good and does the tree present a distraction from her? Also it looks like I may have a bit of over exposure.

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Old 12-31-2009, 05:15 AM
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She is adorable!!!! I would crop out the left side of the tree and that pipe looking thingy.
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Old 12-31-2009, 05:18 AM
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is it ok if I edit the photoo? I'd like to crop it a little and mabey warm it up a bit...?
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Old 12-31-2009, 05:34 AM
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Wizziewoo, sure you can. I appreciate all of the feedback from everyone. I am here to share and learn. If you can work with it, it'd be great.

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Old 12-31-2009, 05:55 AM
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ok, I gave it a shot. obviously, the quality of the photo is low, since i just copied and pasted it, but I think it'll give some ideas. Mainly what I di was rotate them a little, crop them a little closer, and covert to B&W on one and lower the blue tones on the color photo. Hope they give you some ideas!
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Old 12-31-2009, 09:48 PM
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I think the crop is definitely needed...adorable girl!
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Old 12-31-2009, 09:51 PM
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I think the cropping helps a lot. I don't have a lot to add, but she is a cutie!
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Here's my crop on the adorable pic, also mucked around in Lr for a few minutes, hope you don't mind?
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Old 01-01-2010, 04:18 PM
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Thanks All for the feed back. It's amazing what you can do in PP. Looks like I need to put in some effort there as well.

Thankfully, my kids are very willing subjects. At 4 and 2 they think the camera is neat. You should see my 4 year old compose pics with my point & shoot. She's really good.

Dumb question, but if I don't ask, I wont know. What is "Lr"?

From hitting the exposure and color correctly, how did I do? I am trying really hard to stick almost exclusively to Manual mode and really learn my camera.

Thanks again for the feed back and Happy New Year!
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Sorry for the abbreviation, Lr stands for Lightroom, a photo ediiting program similar to Photoshop.
Overall, you did good for someone who isn't quite used to shooting in manual yet,
Keep up the good work.
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