Posted by David Sewell on January 23, 2013 at 5:31 PM
I think it needed a bit more canvas top and bottom, if you have it, rather than have left and right shaved off. Smaller in the frame might help the noise a little as well.
David
Posted by Bob Johnson on January 24, 2013 at 7:54 AM
Got to go along with Graham on this one Paul. Also I am not a fan of Lowl shots where they look slightly cross eyed
If it is a crop then perhaps it would be best to say so up front and indicate by how much. This is a critique site and it is hard to do that without all the relevant info. No one would fault you for needing to crop and they should certainly take it into account when judging noise and sharpness
Bob
Posted by Andy Astbury on January 25, 2013 at 5:09 PM
Lowly looks a little soft to me Paul and that second crop is way too tight imo.
Also curious as to why you are using centre weighted metering - on the whole, matrix will give you a far better starting point under just about every lighting condition.
Posted by Nick Mckeown on January 27, 2013 at 8:17 AM
It is quite noisy Paul for ISO 400 so I am guessing it is quite a crop. As has been suggested maybe have the LOWL smaller in frame to reduce the noise?
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9 repliesD300 600mm f4
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Keith.
Talking of crops, I can see quite a bit of noise present - how much from the original have you taken ?
Cheers
Oscar
David
If it is a crop then perhaps it would be best to say so up front and indicate by how much. This is a critique site and it is hard to do that without all the relevant info. No one would fault you for needing to crop and they should certainly take it into account when judging noise and sharpness
Bob
Also curious as to why you are using centre weighted metering - on the whole, matrix will give you a far better starting point under just about every lighting condition.
Nick.