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@capirani – thank you for your valuable insights and sorry for the late reply. I will try cropping water and placing the horizon by the rule of thirds. Whilst clicking it didn’t appear that I shouldn’t be placing the horizon on the center, but now having read all the comments – it makes sense.

Please keep the comments coming as you notice more.

– Ravi

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@kgrunt – wow man, you explained to a newcomer in such a great way. Now it warrants another trip to this place to implement these ideas. Thanks much – I didn’t thought of focus and skyline sharpness. Fairly new you see but will learn from these mistakes I am making. You’re right on ISO – may be its my new tripod so am still getting used to being comfortable on low ISO’s even when light is low.

@matanee – You made a very interesting point. Do you have any work samples that I can refer to before I go and try there? I am trying to save myself from committing same mistakes…thanks!

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@Bugz and @mauipascal – thanks for your feedback. I agree with your points.

Interesting point on moon – because I was trying to show moon with a little blue effect but it was taking charm out of skyline. At the end, moon turned out to be like Sun and I wasn’t happy about it.

Two different pictures and putting them together sounds interesting. I have never done it – will google it to use later.

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Wow Tobie. Thanks bud – works like charm.

May I request feedback on these from everyone?

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Hi Chrissie,

Thanks for this detailed reply. This definitely helps. I will post the pictures here in a short while.

Cheers

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Tidal Basin, Washington DC in Spring, 2015
Tidal Basin – Sunset.jpg by rpardesi on Light Stalking

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Please have a look now on Flickr. I replaced those 2 cold pics with some tweaks in WB and playing with RGB. It does make a lot of difference and didn’t knew would have to do that much in post production.

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Hey StefB,

You’re right and its due to 2 things – one I think is WB setting. I will try playing with it since I shot in raw. Secondly, blossoms were all white so not contributing to the true spring colors.

Thanks 🙂

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Also I posted few other pics from my trip at https://www.flickr.com/photos/131842912@N07/

Please have a look when you get a chance.

Thanks 🙂

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Good idea, so its coming like this. What do you think? I like it.

Jefferson Memorial – Blossoms (cut).jpg by rpardesi on Light Stalking

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Thank you both for your feedback. I think I mislead the whole picture by choosing a bad title. I was using cherry blossoms to give an interesting aspect to the framing.

David, I tried black and white – certainly looks good. Even Sepia effect gave a different feel to the photo, especially the blossoms.

May be I could’ve just said – “Jefferson Memorial in Spring” would have been much better title.

kgrunt – I am still learning to use cloning – will try in a while. I tried cropping but it was taking away what I was trying to show in the image.

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Hi Mistyisle,

Thanks for this great suggestion about cropping. I am still trying to get hang of 1/3rd rule in composition. I was taking a picture from my living room (since it was bitter cold outside at Balcony), so that created a little awkward angle and I had to do lots of adjustment. But nevertheless, cropping the sky from top sounds good because that way focus goes directly to sun and the foreground. 🙂

Thanks again!

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Thanks again for such level of detail. Here are exact details about setting of the image –

Olympus E450, 50mm-140mm lens (picture taken at 50 mm)
A – F18 (you see I meant small aperture but wrote small depth of field instead of large. My bad – I wanted to capture exact details so large DoF)
S – 1/30 of a second
ISO – 200
Tripod – Yes

Shot in Manual mode with circular polarizer filter (Thanks for detailed explanation that its to be used mostly to enhance the sky and towards the right angle. I was trying to enhance the colors and saturation).

Apart from raising ISO and increasing the aperture, what are my other options? I agree with you a lot to learn and lots of ground to cover.

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Thank you @GordonJames for your comments. I am fairly new in photography and on this forum so please bear with my oversight.

These were taken with Olympus E450 using a circular polarizer filter on the lens. I agree on the exposure issues. Small depth of field (F18) with lower ISO (that was a mistake).

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Yep – very early days for me. I followed you, very nice pictures. Loved it 🙂

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Surely Albirder. I will definitely try on my next post 🙂

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Hi Stef,

Nice to e-meet you. I don’t have many pictures to my acceptable standards yet :), but I posted some pictures on Flickr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/131842912@N07/

Have a look. Where can I see your work?

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Thanks – I am new here and I am trying to post URL here but its not coming up. Shows up as a broken link. May be some setting in Flickr. Checking!

There you go – it worked. Thanks again..! 🙂

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https://flic.kr/p/qNjEFM – took this on March 11th, don’t have a backyard as I live in an apartment but that was a view from my porch.

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