New Guy

[RedWingsSuck]

Hello I'm Matt and I'm new around these parts so I figured I'd start off by seeing what some more experienced photographers thought of some of my pictures. Any and all comments are welcomed, please rip into me if you have to get your view across, it won't offend me in the least.

Lake at dusk
Buck
forrest fire- wild flowers
Trespassing bucks
Divide
More forrest fire remains with wild flowers

Thanks a lot

[mikehulsebus]

Hey and welcome to the forums.
The shot of the buck is interesting for you I'm sure and I'm guessing you've got a story behind where and when you saw it, but I don't feel it really stands alone as an image. The composition makes this guy just too far away and the reflection of the flash in his eyes is real distracting.
From the titling of the forest fire images, I'm guessing the focus of the images is both the burned trees and wild flowers being in the same place, which makes for a cool sort of juxtaposition. Your sky on "forrest fire- wild flowers" looks a bit over edited to me, but I like how you're not subduing the sky to match the tree's somber sorta mood. The bright blue adds to the whole flower/tree thing you've got going on.
I guess my only other suggestion would be trying some different angles on things. Most of these look like they're taken from eye-level. You could try a few looking down on something like the flowers, or getting low to make one thing large in the frame while something else is going on in the background.
Cool shots and once again welcome to the forums

[RedWingsSuck]

thanks for the response.

I couldn't agree with you more on the buck picture. I've been contemplating zooming and cropping it and editing out the reflection. The only reason that I haven't is because I wanted to see what other's thought.

The sky in the other one wasn't edited, none of my pictures are, I try to keep them how they are presented to me.

[mikehulsebus]

You're welcome, please tear into one of mine if you get a chance
Hmm..wow, you camera really captured that sky bright! hmm or maybe its that the clouds are so white. Either way like i said, it goes with the dead trees. What kinda camera are you shooting with? Seems most cameras would just make the whole sky bright white, ruining the whole shot.

[RedWingsSuck]

Will do.

I don't know if it was the camera or the location, here in Colorado we get some incredible skies in the high country. The only reason I took that particular picture was because the sky cleared up almost instantly, the whole time previous to that the sky looked like it did in the other picture. All of those were shot with a sony point and shoot (dsc-p72).

[Lava Lamp]

Hello I'm Matt and I'm new around these parts so I figured I'd start off by seeing what some more experienced photographers thought of some of my pictures. Any and all comments are welcomed, please rip into me if you have to get your view across, it won't offend me in the least.

Lake at dusk
Buck
forrest fire- wild flowers
Trespassing bucks
Divide
More forrest fire remains with wild flowers

Thanks a lot

Welcome. I think the best landscapes have objects in the front, middle, and back with lots of detaila nd you end up moving your eye through the picture, making it dynamic. I'd work on that onthe landscape photos you posted, of which I find the lake ot be my favorite. The deer pics is a little too far way and unclear for my taste, but hey, it's a deer. It's not like you could walk up to him while he waited.

[RedWingsSuck]

it's a deer. It's not like you could walk up to him while he waited.

Ha, actually that's pretty much what I did. I was only 15-20ft away before I took that, I didn't want to push my luck and get closer.

Thanks for the landscape tips

[Sandi Z]

Hi! I'd like to say that you are really lucky to have such great scenery to play around with. I love Divide...it's my favorite. I am really a people person and rarely take shots of my surroundings. I did go barn crazy once and had a sky craze and a few months ago, a creek phase, but if I had your area I might go nuts. Good job.

Have you tried the graduated filters for the sky yet? I bet you'd get great shots that way.

[RedWingsSuck]

No I haven't tried any filters, besides the fact that I'm a poor college student, I like trying to keep everything looking exactly like I see it. I may give it a try in the future when I haven't spent all my cash on booze or something equally foolish.