Hello,
Congratulations on completing the course and thanks for sharing your final project with the community.
This is a great collection of images, I particularly like the portraits, I think they are very genuine.
Unfortunately, there seems to be an issue with your focus as some of your pictures are slightly out of focus. This may have been caused by a small handshake when taking the picture or/and a slow shutter speed. A soft focus can also be caused by a narrow depth of field, which is very difficult to achieve when your subject is moving.
I recommend you play with these settings once more and carefully think about where you want the focus to be in your frame. You then import them into your computer and zoom in to see if the focus is sharp.
And remember, when you are photographing people you should always focus on the eyes, because they are very expressive.
Another thing I'd like to comment on is that the exposure in your 4th picture has not been set correctly, because the sky is completely white. The camera is not capable of capturing both very bright and very dark parts of the image at the same time. It can capture the subject correctly, or the sky, but not both. We might expect it to be able to do so, because our eyes do this all the time. Our eyes are pretty amazing, actually. They are capable of clearly seeing a huge range of brightness. For example, we can look out of a window at the sky and see the clouds, but we can also still see the room we are in, despite the fact it is much more dimly lit. We can clearly see detail and colour in both brightly and dimly lit areas of the world around us without needing to let our eyes adjust. The digital camera can’t do this so well. When it looks at a given scene it has a narrower range, with a maximum and minimum level of brightness it can successfully capture.
So, what are the solutions?
i) don’t include too much sky in the frame
ii) reduce the exposure, so the sky is not overexposed (don’t bring it down too much otherwise the subject will turn black)
iii) use HDR, either on camera or in Lightroom (please note this is quite an advanced option)
I hope this helps!
Thanks again for sharing your project.
Best of luck,
Giulia
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Profesor PlusHello,
Congratulations on completing the course and thanks for sharing your final project with the community.
This is a great collection of images, I particularly like the portraits, I think they are very genuine.
Unfortunately, there seems to be an issue with your focus as some of your pictures are slightly out of focus. This may have been caused by a small handshake when taking the picture or/and a slow shutter speed. A soft focus can also be caused by a narrow depth of field, which is very difficult to achieve when your subject is moving.
I recommend you play with these settings once more and carefully think about where you want the focus to be in your frame. You then import them into your computer and zoom in to see if the focus is sharp.
And remember, when you are photographing people you should always focus on the eyes, because they are very expressive.
Another thing I'd like to comment on is that the exposure in your 4th picture has not been set correctly, because the sky is completely white. The camera is not capable of capturing both very bright and very dark parts of the image at the same time. It can capture the subject correctly, or the sky, but not both. We might expect it to be able to do so, because our eyes do this all the time. Our eyes are pretty amazing, actually. They are capable of clearly seeing a huge range of brightness. For example, we can look out of a window at the sky and see the clouds, but we can also still see the room we are in, despite the fact it is much more dimly lit. We can clearly see detail and colour in both brightly and dimly lit areas of the world around us without needing to let our eyes adjust. The digital camera can’t do this so well. When it looks at a given scene it has a narrower range, with a maximum and minimum level of brightness it can successfully capture.
So, what are the solutions?
i) don’t include too much sky in the frame
ii) reduce the exposure, so the sky is not overexposed (don’t bring it down too much otherwise the subject will turn black)
iii) use HDR, either on camera or in Lightroom (please note this is quite an advanced option)
I hope this helps!
Thanks again for sharing your project.
Best of luck,
Giulia
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