Lydia Bennett

Thanks @hayhand02! I like it; that vignette was done tastefully: it’s not too dark, but I think your eye is drawn to the subject better.

Thanks for the critique!
At this point, I’m still using windows live photo gallery for editing 🙁 and very unfortunately there’s no vignette option in there.

And two at a park near the beach.

A few at the beach…

While in FL for a few days, I was able to go to the beach and a nearby pond at sunrise for this assignment. Yay for free time and obliging brothers! 😀

Here are two at the pond…

It looks very nice! I love your photos – especially the first two!

I find the picture of the tulips you put on this post are a nice, deep, realistic colour of red for tulips. Do you find they are?

I agree. Those tulips look like a true red color to me as well.

The American flag’s stripes are slightly more burgundy, while Canadian flag is a truer red, and a nicer one in my opinion. (I may be b…

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Ok, I had a feeling that’s what I should’ve done since that is the lowest aperture I can get.

Any thoughts on how I could’ve avoided the orange cast?

I have a Nikon too, Hannah. I don’t know if this is the “static” that you’re referring to but if I have my camera in auto-focus, it’s constantly trying to focus and that makes a lot of noise, so I have to manually focus to avoid that. I don’t use my camera for videoing very much though.

@blessingscaptured, I think the lighting in those pictures is better, and the picture with the flowers is very pretty!
Just to clarify, when I was said that I would try to include something in the foreground, I meant that I’d try to have essentially the same photo with the trees and sky, but have something in the foreground of that picture. 🙂

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Thanks, Morgan! I appreciate your comments. I was going to try to do a re-shoot with your suggestions in mind, but the flowers are wilting at this point, and I decided that I wouldn’t take pictures of wilted flower arrangements! But what you said was helpful and good for me to think about in the future when I’m trying to…[Read more]

Oops I guess one of those didn’t upload. Here it is…

I was familiar with this hymn, but didn’t know it very well. 🙂

The first 3 pictures are ones that I took a couple years ago when a few of my siblings and I went to a grand opening of the “Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge” in New Haven. We went because there were going to be some veterans from Pearl Harbor there, so we thought we should take the…[Read more]

Aww that rose is pretty, and the dew enhances the photo so much!

In this picture there’s just a tad bit cut off on the outside petal, I think I would try to make sure that either the entire rose is in the picture, or get closer in if possible and artisically get only part of it. It just has to look purposeful either way!

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I agree – it looks great!
As far as whether or not it suits your photos, perhaps you could post a couple photos with it on them to see what it looks like?

The photo looks under-exposed in general.

As far as composition, I would try to include something in the foreground; there’s not currently anything that grabs my interest and makes me want to just look and look at this photo; it also looks very “half-and-half” with sky vs. trees, I think it would look better 1/3 to 2/3. And the photo impresses me…[Read more]

I agree with @blessingscaptured… it would be better if more of the subject (if not all) was in focus.
What you did with the 2nd photo seems better, cropping it so it eliminates distracting elements. But even still, it’s not all in focus. Plus, now it’s zoomed in so much that it’s hard to tell what that red thing is! If I didn’t know, I’m pretty…[Read more]