Hi Michalene!
I'm playing catch up too, and currently stuck on relax and now another theme has hit the table!
So winding right back to scenic ( can you remember that far back?
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Scenic ooh hi have to disagree with some comments this time of year is good for scenic in many ways. Sunrise late Sunset early give good light. Anyhow your scenic.....
Scenic.... Nice woodland shot, there's a nice lead in with the forest track one the right, placing this on the right gives a nice thirds composition woodland colours can be a bit sludgy especially in that light. I think I would crop it down a little from the top right down to just below that branch on the right ( that bothers me and keeps drawing my eye) doing that achieves two things getting rid of the branch
and loosing the sky which is blown out and bleaching out some of your colours. So now your exposure is a little more even across the frame. This give you a little more latitude for adjustments, so a bit of sharpening and maybe tweak the WB for some warmth and a touch more saturation in the greens ( hopefully your using RAW ).
There's great texture in the tree trunks and nice highlights one some of the trunks.
Think about going back in the evening when there's long shadows from the low evening sun that always works well in the woods. Lighting is the key either early or late.
Still nice shot.
Companions .... Love the idea, great thinking! The trick with snow is to overexpose that makes the the snow really white also to get rid of the blue casts you can change your WB to 'flash'. If your using raw you can do this in PP.
Like the shot, think I might have cropped it down. Remove the RH edge up to the light then the bottom up to a bit below the paw print keeping the square crop, this would really highlight the paw print and boot print.
Really like this.
Elegant .... Picture one, yes you really needed a big dollop of aperture here to throw the background OOF. It's also a tad tightly cropped on the RH side.
I love the candle lamp great colour! Those highlights are the bane of my life, not good at indoor lighting
. I take it it was from the flash. I think of camera flash and or another light source is the answer here and using reflectors like sheets of white paper, I have found its a matter of playing around and see what works. A direct inbuilt flash on a camera you will struggle with as your directing the light right at the subject. Diffusing the light might help by putting something like greaseproof paper over the camera flash with an elastic band to hold it in place to diffuse the light a bit.
Watery .... Right up my street, lovely shot, great silhouette of the lift guard hut against the sunset, great pastel tones in the sky, and a nice subtle reflection on the sea running onto the shore line. Rock has been mentioned if you want to remove it, also in the very bottom LH corner there is something? Paving slab maybe if you wanted to be finicky you could clone it out. Only other thing to watch out for is the 50:50 split sea and sky. As an experiment throw the picture up on the screen then with a piece of card or something cut off the bottom (or do it by scrolling) and see how the picture changes when you have lost all the shoreline and you just have the stilts of the hut sea and sky, so third sea, two thirds sky.
Excellent shot, well exposed.
Bold .... Very Bold! Love those bright colours, nice semicircular edge runs your eye round the frame, nice sharp focus on the main subject. Was this shot with flash or natural light? You have managed to control the highlights well.
Works very nicely, nice detail in the eggs, good shot.
Hope you don't mind me putting my 2d in, sorry not caught up with you before!
Better find something to shoot for Relax now so that will be the rest of today gone
All the best
S
