India and Nepal D90 (CC)

daleelad · Mar 1, 2012

Hello DPreview'ers !

I recently returned from a trip to India and Nepal with my D90 in tow. I can't figure out how to embed Flickr photos so here is a link to my gallery.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/d90_dale/sets/72157629493098599/

I'm always looking to improve my composition, exposure, technique etc. Any tips would be great!

Cheers
Dale

dominikpl72 · Mar 2, 2012

Your photos are nice and correct torurist's snapshots.

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daleelad · Mar 2, 2012

Thanks. What makes you say they're snapshots? They weren't hastily taken, I put thought into composition, DOF. Just curious what about my pics seem snapshot-ish?

Cheers
Dale

dominikpl72 · Mar 2, 2012

First reason: many of the pictures that You included in the gallery are "duplicates"
Like this two:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/d90_dale/6943789741/in/set-72157629493098599/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/d90_dale/6797685788/in/set-72157629493098599/
or those two:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/d90_dale/6798544438/in/set-72157629493098599/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/d90_dale/6944661293/in/set-72157629493098599/
or two monkey at the pavement edge views or even quadruplet with Taj-Mahal etc

Second: I do not see anything specially "creative" in pictures shown... I also do not see the whole set shown building a "story"... And please, do not understand previous statements as a "negative opinion". As I wrote in my first post - pictures are OK - but they do not trigger in me any emotions - thats why I dared to call them "snapshots"

That two aspects make me feel Your photos as "snapshots".
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baloo_buc · Mar 2, 2012

I liked most of the. Of course there can be some improvements but you are far above the crowd. I liked the Taj Mahal view from the palace.
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Juri Janasik · Mar 2, 2012

You have a number of good photos. Some post processing like slight rotation, etc., would improve the visual effect.

When one is travelling one doesn't always have the luxury to wait for the opportune moment to get the shot. There are schedules to keep, so you shoot what you can.

In fact, to push this a little further, I was once in a city for several days and was disappointed that the sun didn't shine once. I couldn't get some of those good shots. Finally, I realized, this is what the residents of the city have to cope with and it became easier to shoot.

Thanks for putting these photos up.

By the way, you may wish to use Landscape and Travel Forum. Individuals are more helpful there with photos like yours.
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daleelad · Mar 2, 2012

Thank you guys for your comments..I will post in landscape and travel and see how I go there. Much appreciated.

Cheers
Dale

john Clinch · Mar 3, 2012

I see nothing wrong with posting here. I will look on Flickr but I'd recomend that you add say 5 images to the this thread to draw people in
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2005magnum · Mar 3, 2012

I liked your images.

I have never seen the Taj Mahal in person. I was under the impression that the color of the structure was white. One of your images seems to be closer to the correct color, however, the others seem to have a yellowish hue. Did you post process? Again, I may be wrong never having seen in person, but I think you may need some pp color correction (to me, the D90 default setting always seemed to have to much hue)
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johnbutto · Mar 3, 2012

Your photos make me want to take a trip to those places, very nice. They have a National Graphics feeling.

daleelad · Mar 3, 2012

2005magnum said:
I liked your images.

I have never seen the Taj Mahal in person. I was under the impression that the color of the structure was white. One of your images seems to be closer to the correct color, however, the others seem to have a yellowish hue. Did you post process? Again, I may be wrong never having seen in person, but I think you may need some pp color correction (to me, the D90 default setting always seemed to have to much hue)
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Thanks! I noticed it too. No PP however it I think it might have had something to do with the amount of pollution? It was fairly windy and it seemed to come in waves (the pollution that is). Not entirely sure. Would love to go back and try again haha.

Cheers
Dale

daleelad · Mar 3, 2012

johnbutto said:
Your photos make me want to take a trip to those places, very nice. They have a National Graphics feeling.

Thanks John, I highly recommend India. Everywhere you look there's a photo opp. Probably why I went through 2000 pics in 8 days.

Cheere
Dale

Juri Janasik · Mar 3, 2012

I lost the first attempt when I hit a wrong key.

The Taj Mahal is constructed of white marble. The color you see depends on the time of the day and even then your eyes can deceive you. I got shots at sunrise and near sunset.

The Taj at sunrise, when you beat the crowds:

The Taj just near sunset, when it is crowded--I'm a little lucky here:

If you are close to the Taj and the light is striking just right you can see it glistening. Next time I there I going to try to get that shot--if I get the opportunity to travel.

Immediately to the left of the Taj is a mosque; to the right is an administrative structure that looks like the mosque. This was done purposely to maintain the balance.
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Juri Janasik · Mar 3, 2012

I can't tell you how to load photos from Flickr to your message in a straight forward manner.

But I will suggest that maybe you should load the photos you want to use in DPR messages in your DPR Gallery. From the Gallery you can then reference them for the message and you can see them in the message Preview which you scroll down to from where you are typing your message.

Sorry no responses yet in Landscape and Travel Forum. It goes in cycles.

Best of luck.
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J Janasik

daleelad · Mar 4, 2012

nice photos! i would have loved to do the sunrise trip. THanks for showing.

Cheers
Dale

daleelad · Mar 4, 2012

Juri Janasik said:
I can't tell you how to load photos from Flickr to your message in a straight forward manner.

But I will suggest that maybe you should load the photos you want to use in DPR messages in your DPR Gallery. From the Gallery you can then reference them for the message and you can see them in the message Preview which you scroll down to from where you are typing your message.

Sorry no responses yet in Landscape and Travel Forum. It goes in cycles.

Best of luck.
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J Janasik

Thnks for the tip. I have added some pics from my stop over in Dubai on the way home to test it out. I loved Dubai as well!

Cheers
Dale

john Clinch · Mar 4, 2012

To add an image from flickr all you need to do is click on the photo in your photo stream. Right click over the image then choose the size you want. Right click the properties in th elist. Then cut and paste the staic URL

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daleelad · Mar 4, 2012

john Clinch said:
To add an image from flickr all you need to do is click on the photo in your photo stream. Right click over the image then choose the size you want. Right click the properties in th elist. Then cut and paste the staic URL

Beautiful photo. Thanks for the Flickr tip as well, much simpler.

Cheers
Dale

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