Photo Critique Club

[MACCanadianCoop]

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Second one is not level to the horizon and it looks like everything is falling to the right

 

[Kiki]

Cell phone camera user. Dumb it down for me please
Back focused?

It's way too nerdy for me too.
I'm guessing you don't really have much control over any of it cuz you're using a cell phone.

 

[Kiki]

You even liked the post I explained it, lady!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/photo-critique-club.1534260/post-25933378

After. Liked your post afterwards after I posted mine.
I cannot wait to reply until I have caught up in a thread. I just reply to a post without in the moment reading ahead.

 

[Kiki]

Second one is not level to the horizon and it looks like everything is falling to the right

I was driving. Didn't even stop to take it.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Cell phone camera user. Dumb it down for me please
Back focused?

Look at it on a computer screen so you can zoom it in really well. when you do, you will see that the section of the photo that is the most in focus is here:

So you're focused slightly behind the center of the flower, AKA Back-focused. It's a cell camera thing. Unless you're in "pro mode" and manually controlling it, you're at the whim of your camera app.

 

[Kiki]

I did think to roll my window down at least.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

Subjectively, I like the flower. It's gorgeous.
Compositionally, you're too close and clipped the right edge. In addition, your sharpest focal area is above-center compared to the bloom, so you're back-focused for the shot. And finally, it's oversaturated a bit. I have a feeling that's your camera's auto HDR mode, but it's really pushing the limits of "that's messed with" vs "I can buy this as natural"

Is this better? Tried to focus on the flower in the forefront. Nothing is edited

 

[Kiki]

Is this better? Tried to focus on the flower in the forefront. Nothing is edited View attachment 3178767

Do you have any house plants to practice on?

 

[azurbanclucker]

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Subjectively, it's a little plain. A lot of nothing interesting going on here, unless you're obsessed with peppers.

Compositionally, you're back-foucsed again. Just below the pepper, where the little brown stem is on the leaf behind. The actual pepper is fuzzy, was this plant moving?

 

[Kiki]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/official-byc-2022-summer-fair—indoor-plant-show.1537257/