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RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

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Piotom
Piotom New Member • Posts: 9
RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures
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Hey

I want to share with you a couple of photographs I'd taken a few days ago.

Can I ask you for CC, plase?

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Please provide me constructive critique and criticism.
Nilsa Regular Member • Posts: 316
Re: RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

I suppose you have done pretty well trying to make a rather simple subject into something greater.

Pic1 Great colors and texture. A bit too flat for me… perhaps because of the focal length and/or the composition. Like the small piece of warm light at the top. Looks like something divine is coming.

Pic2 Interesting contrast with dreamlike waterfall and muddy greenish water. Don’t know if that was your intention.

Pic3 Hm… gives me nothing i am afraid

Pic4 Very nice foreground, a bit too much of the same dark rock in the middle and the top looks over processed with another style than the rest of the image.

As a training session they are not bad, but I think you have to find something unique or something to say with your images if you want anyone to really notice them.

tocar Veteran Member • Posts: 4,533
Re: RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

Picture 1&2 seems similar except the color.  The first one I like better because the forest seems alive with the multitude of colors.  The other pictures didn't stand out for me.  Did you use an ND filter and what setting?  Thanks for sharing

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Piotom
OP Piotom New Member • Posts: 9
Re: RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

Thank you for your CC. That's very helpful for me to improve my future shots.

I'd used Marumi magnetic filters: UV, C-PL and ND16. Previously I had 100mm filter system which was cumberstone to work with. Magnetic filters are super fast to work with.

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tocar Veteran Member • Posts: 4,533
Re: RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

Awesome as I use the same Marumi filters.  I do have a variable ND filter of ND2 to 400 and it was very useful when I took a picture of Venus in front of the sun June 2012.  I almost forgot the event and hurried to do the setup and glad I got to take the picture.  First I thought my lens were dirty but found it was Sun spots!  The swivel screen on the camera is a godsend.

Venus 2012

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R2D2 Forum Pro • Posts: 26,536
Re: RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

#4 is the one that does it for me.

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ps. U/V filter?

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Piotom
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Re: RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

@tocar

awesome shot!

@R2D2

yes, I wasd using UV filter too (Marumi magnetic).

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Dan W Senior Member • Posts: 1,154
Re: RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

Piotom wrote:

Hey

I want to share with you a couple of photographs I'd taken a few days ago.

Can I ask you for CC, plase?

This is my opinion only so take it for what its worth. I like the moodyniss of the first image.

The second one seems off color. I might be wrong but the scene looks a little green.

The third does nothing for me. Just nothing there to draw or lead me into the scene.

The forth I think there's a little too much contrast. The background is blowout and the foreground is almost black. I like how the stream draws my eye around the scene. But I think I would like more light in the foreground. Remember your eye will first go to the brightest part of the image so it makes sense to brighten up where you want the viewers eye to start. Knowing that, now look at the last image again and tell me where your eye jumped first. A bright and busy background that adds nothing to the image really.

Maybe try playing with HDR with images like this 4th pic. Whenever I shoot with sky in the scene, I try to get some blue and clouds too. Sometimes its unavoidable to not get blowout skys but I do my best to save them.

If your post software has a gradient filter, try using it and see if you can bring up the foreground and tame the background a bit. Of course they still make gradient ND filters to fit on your lens.

I love the look of the streams, you did good with the shutter speed for the water.

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phazelag
phazelag Veteran Member • Posts: 3,376
Re: RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

I think they’re beautiful.    You asked for critique    I think the only correction I would make is to remove the twigs sticking out at the bottom of the water.    The logs are fine but the twigs distract from the beauty of the water.  Just my opinion

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Piotom
OP Piotom New Member • Posts: 9
Re: RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

Thank you for your CC. Thats a great idea to use grad ND in software - I'll try that!

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Piotom
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Re: RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

I'll try that too! Do you think that simple clone tool will do the job?

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phazelag
phazelag Veteran Member • Posts: 3,376
Re: RF 24-105 F4L sample pictures

Piotom wrote:

I'll try that too! Do you think that simple clone tool will do the job?

Yes that’s what I was thinking    Lightroom healing tool works well but just make sure you move the sample section for the clone lines up with the water lines   So you have symmetry of the water flow.

I love C&C    Always makes me better whether I agree or not   😊

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