My first photo post

[Zeeke]

Im a brand spankin newbie in the world of SLR cameras.. with only 2 months of using one up my sleeve... but luckily i know some people who knew some people who know the people or something along those lines... oh hangon.. yeh thats right.. i know someone who is a mad photographer.. and now has me hooked.. but he has also loaned me some of his lenses now and then.. this picture was taken with a 55mm Nikkor Micro... manual focus job.. and just as old as the owner.. or younger then the owner.. it doesnt have grey hairs like its owner.. but its old enough

Anyways... please tell me what you think.. ive got thick skin.. and im new.. so.. any comments will be good.. and help me become a better photographer

Cheers

Tim

[PiroStitch]

Welcome Zeeke

I like this photo because of the off-centre composition. Personally I'm not a huge fan of macro photography but I like this one as it's not composed like other macro captures (ie. object in the centre of the frame).

If I was to be really picky, I'd say the image is a bit soft and possibly slightly out of focus. IMHO I'd try and re-capture this flower with the main guts of the flower tack sharp but as I said, that's me being extremely picky and pedantic

[Geoff]

Tim,
Nice shot but I think the background on the left/upper corner is quite distracting, perhaps a tighter crop would be more appealing? Welcome and thanks for your first post.

[mudder]

G'day Tim,
Terrific first post, also had a sticky at your web-site, very impressive I must say, really enjoyed going through it... Great to see new members with such interesting stuff...

I'd try cloning out the distracting background rather than cropping, I like the inclusion of the edges of the petals.

Much PP? Wonder whether some additional(?) sharpening and contrast adjustment may help add some "pop" to the image...

Cheers.

[Zeeke]

Thanks for the replys so far guys... id try and sharpen the focusing.. but its hard with a manual lense for me lol.. well.. its hard trying to get as sharp as ya can with a manual focus lense looking through a d70 eyepiece.. need to get a 2x magnifier i think to help me a lil..

the colour in the background is actually another rose.. and there was no post processing really.. just the frame bit lol


Whats the best way to do cloning? im not upto speed on that part really

Thanks again

Tim

[Michael]

welcome tim

and welcome me

[mudder]

... Whats the best way to do cloning? im not upto speed on that part really...

G'day,
There's heaps of PS guru's on the forum but basically one way is to make a selection of the petals you want to protect, then invert the selection to restrict the editable area to OTHER than the petals. Then using the clone tool (in PSCS it looks like a rubber stamp, in other apps it might look different) select an area to copy from (the source) and then just "stamp/rub" the area where you want to copy the source to... Dunno if I've explained that at all well...

Have a play, it'll make sense when you give it a go...