Took this today on my D3100

Thoughts?



Thanks

Lord Nikon

Ok for thoughts.

The post behind the flower distracts a lot. Try this: Close one eye while looking at your picture, then bring one of your hands from below and slowly bring it up to hide the post. You should see that the flower then gets better looking. Or, if you have a photo retouching software, you could very easily clone the post out and that would make the picture better as well.

Remember that only practice makes perfect.

Thanks for the reply.... What I wanted to hear was... that was awesome,leave it alone..perfecto lol :witless:

Does that look better? obvious its been messed with????

I realised I had taken another without that post... does this one look better???

Better.

Yes better. I was just trying to point out that sometimes we don't see what's there when we take the picture because we are concentrating on what WE WANT TO SEE ONLY. But these elements can come back and take the attention away from our main subject.

Several decades ago I shot the perfect picture of my wife, only to discover when I got home and developed the film and printed the photo there was a cigarette butt in the foreground. That was all I could see. This was also before the days of Photoshop. I did not have access to airbrushing at that time, so I could never get that shot to be the way I saw it when I shot it. Ever since that day I have tried to pay attention to what ELSE was in the picture.

This is the hardest part of photography - learning to see the things in your photo that you're not looking at. Our human brains will see something in the world and will zone in on it, ignoring all the extraneous items that surround it. Then when reviewing the images do we see the cigarette butts (as Don pointed out) or lines transecting the subject, etc. I suspect even seasoned photographers occasionally fail to see these extraneous things when shooting, I know I do sometimes. In my case I get all excited about what I'm seeing in the viewfinder and start pressing forgetting to first do my sweep of the background.

The problem with me at the moment is I tend to rush.....everything.
I really need to slow down.

Thanks for the replies

Lord Nikon said:

I realised I had taken another without that post... does this one look better???

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Much better LN!

Pat in NH

Tracsoft - Don Kuykendall said:

Several decades ago I shot the perfect picture of my wife, only to discover when I got home and developed the film and printed the photo there was a cigarette butt in the foreground. That was all I could see. This was also before the days of Photoshop. I did not have access to airbrushing at that time, so I could never get that shot to be the way I saw it when I shot it. Ever since that day I have tried to pay attention to what ELSE was in the picture.

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Don, I cannot count the times that type of thing has happened.. I think I am so focused on the subject that I cannot see the forest for the trees! I try to do better each time I get caught too!

Pat in NH