Soft drink for the primates
Mirindaaaaah!
Av: F/3.5; Tv: 1/60; f: 72 mm (35mm-equiv: 454 mm); WB: Cloudy
Ok .. given the chance to re-take this snap, I would
- Use a faster shutter-speed (for gods sake, with that kind of zoom – I ought to have done that)
- As a consequence of point 1, open up the aperture to F/2.7 (what kind of idiot takes a split second snap with so much zoom without fully opening up the aperture?)
- I honestly have no idea why I used that “cloudy” white balance setting. I’d set it to default.
- This snap obeys the rule-of-thirds; only – the subject is in the wrong third of the photo! Given a second chance, I’d shift my ancestor to the right side of the frame.
- I’d probably want to fine tune the depth-of-field .. but given the very short time within which I’d have to click the snap – probably i’d keep the DOF as least priority.
Towering Above Everything Else
Petronas twin towers, Kuala Lumpur
Av:F/2.7; Tv: 1/20; ISO: 80;f: 6mm (35mm-eq: 38 mm)
At first glance, I thought this was an outstanding snap (yeah-yeah .. i patted myself on the back and stuff!). But when I examined it later, I found quite a few shortcomings:
- As a rule of thumb, tall structures should be shot in Portrait mode. Especially the once-tallest-building-on-earth. Of course, this is not a hard-and-fast rule. However, I think that this snap would have been much better had I rotated my camera 90 deg while clicking it.
- Even in landscape mode, it is not properly centered. I feel that symmetry is very important for these kinds of photos. Even if there was not perfect symmetry at the time of clicking the snap, I could have fixed it during post-processing (by rotating the picture a bit and inserting black background).
- There is still an oh-so-faint camera shake (you can discern it if you see the top of the tower on the your right). I probably should have gone for faster shutter. But that would have meant higher ISO and the accompanying noise.
- Probably giving it a Vivid Skin Tone might have enhanced the overall effect.
What other problem do you see with this snap? Comments are welcome!
