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Be very skeptical and tell me everything that is wrong with this picture.
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Nice action there! I see you use the same camera that my Grandpa uses, a Canon Powershot SX160! Congratulations on capturing action with that camera. From my experience with smaller Powershots, they aren’t the speediest things on the planet! Your picture is also in focus, enough so that you can see the individual feathers on the wings!
Oops! I’m supposed to be finding what’s wrong with the picture! Well, honestly, other than the rock sticking up in the foreground, I’m having a hard time coming up with anything “wrong”. Well, that and I would kinda like to see the whole reflection of the swan.
Hey, thanks for posting, Sarah, and commenting, buddingphotographer.
I would like to see a more dynamic angle. Get down lower so you can see more water in the background, preferably disappearing into out-of-focus texture in the background. I wasn’t there, but if you had squatted down, you possibly could have used the foreground rock as a secondary element in the composition. Your subjects are excellent, and your exposure is good too, but I would have put more thought into composition. Even adding something very much out-of-focus in the foreground would have added more depth too.
If you’re camera isn’t giving you the Depth of Field I’ve just described, move your camera over to Aperture priority and shoot at f/4.0 or f/5.6. With some zoom, you should be able to get some DOF even with a point and shoot.
Lighting is another thing to consider. The light is very harsh and colorless. I’m glad you took the shot when you did, but if you can, the next time you have the opportunity to stroll along the lake-side go in the late afternoon or early evening. You’re making the most of this opportunity, however, by having the subjects facing the light.
As buddingphotographer said, I’m glad you caught the action; it makes it more interesting than just two swans sitting on the shore, or swimming on the water like the multitude of swan pictures.
I like that you caught the action, but I think that the picture is washed out. Maybe try to saturate it a little, and I would suggest cropping out a little of the water.
What about this? What does it mean to saturate?
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According to Webopedia, “In graphics and imaging, color saturation is used to describe the intensity of color in the image. A saturated image has overly bright colors. Using a graphics editing program you can increase saturation on under-exposed images, or vise versa.”
This article on Contrast and Saturation by Tom Vadnais Photography goes into a lot more detail if you want to check it out and learn some new stuff.
Saturating is adding more color to pictures that wasn’t there before or increasing the colors that already exist. =)
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