10 of my best from Hardwick hall. Please help me get better C&C very welcome

These are all taken with the D7000 18-200mm. All PP done in Aperture 3. I think i'm starting to understand this Camera now and I am starting to be pleased with the results. Please help me get better.

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xSprinterx said:

These are all taken with the D7000 18-200mm. All PP done in Aperture 3. I think i'm starting to understand this Camera now and I am starting to be pleased with the results. Please help me get better.

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Looks like a very nice place to visit.

It's a bit hit and miss... and by that I mean that two of your shots are very good. I'm referring to the third with the yellow flower in the middle and to the second last, the staircase. I think they show that you've got a good idea for colour and light, and that your sense of composition with luminance is stronger than your sense of composition with form . One gets the feeling from your shots that you were trying to capture a sense of the grounds, much much have been very expansive, but it helps composition-wise to concentrate on one idea or subject, and to bring that out clearly in your frame.

There's also a longer and more boring discussion about why you left the camera at f/8 for all of your shots, but I'll save that for the next guy.

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I really enjoy 009 and 008 problably had an interesting shot in there somewhere because there's a lot going on.

The others are not very interesting pictures of things so there's not much to say about them although now I know what Hardwick Hall looks like, which is cool and why I look at most of these posts.

So what's up with f/8?

Thanks for your comments, I know what I was trying to capture but don't think I did. F8 is the sweet spot for my version of the lens. I will try different apertures to see what results I get. The grounds are very impressive.

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stuntmonkey said:

xSprinterx said:

These are all taken with the D7000 18-200mm. All PP done in Aperture 3. I think i'm starting to understand this Camera now and I am starting to be pleased with the results. Please help me get better.

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Looks like a very nice place to visit.

It's a bit hit and miss... and by that I mean that two of your shots are very good. I'm referring to the third with the yellow flower in the middle and to the second last, the staircase. I think they show that you've got a good idea for colour and light, and that your sense of composition with luminance is stronger than your sense of composition with form . One gets the feeling from your shots that you were trying to capture a sense of the grounds, much much have been very expansive, but it helps composition-wise to concentrate on one idea or subject, and to bring that out clearly in your frame.

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Really valuable feedback, your right I really struggle to capture things. I love using light. In the bench shot I was try to capture the peacefulness of the area, focus point on the corner of the bench. I sat on that bench in perfect silence for 15 tranquil min's until the kids found me...

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all in all, nice shots, interesting place.
watch out for blown HL in the sky shots...
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and recovered HL and building straightened...

intruder61 said:

all in all, nice shots, interesting place.
watch out for blown HL in the sky shots...

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I don't think that could have been avoided in this case, since it's a function of the time of day and the prevailing conditions. It would have been far more important to get the building exposed to taste than the whole scene. However, though I'm not a fan of active D-Light, this would have been the time to have had it turned on. But I'll bet good money the grounds would have been very, very nice towards the 'golden hour'.

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