Need some feedback on my photos

[NaOH]

What do you guys think. I need a photo that has a fast, slow shutterspeed, shallow and deep depth of field. Thanks for any comments.

Fast Shutter[*]Fast Shutter

Slow Shutter

Deep Depth

Shallow

replace fast shutter speed or guitar example with this?

 

[Brainonska511]

They look pretty good.

 

[jamesbond007]

Fast Shutter is alright, but if it was truly fast, you should have water droplets; not smeared water on the screen.

Slow Shutter is pretty good - frame has content and good perspective.

Deep Depth is nice and simple - works for me.

Shallow - great shot, the best one here. Though, can you get any shallower?

For my personal tastes, I would increase the contrast a bit and darken them up a *tish* - nothing much, but it would give your photos more depth to them.

Were these shot with a P&S? If not, which camera and lens(es) did you use?

 

[NaOH]

They were shot with a canon g5. The fast shutter speed one had blurry droplets because i had a large aperature to focus on the sprinkler only. One of my mistakes.

 

[Ika]

I think the fast shutter pic would be more exciting if the grass was bokeh'd. Looks okay, though.

Slow shutter pic is nice, I likie.

Deep depth doesn't really seem "deep" enough for me, but it works.

Shallow depth is awesome, but it would be even better if it was 100% clear what you are focusing on. I'm not really sure how you could get a good composition while focusing on something good, though.

 

[montanafan]

I think the fast shutter one will be okay if the viewer keeps in mind that the sprinkler head was rotating.

I like the composition in the slow shutter one. I'd like to see a little more contrast in it though.

The deep depth of field is good. Like Aflac, I thought it wasn't deep enough at first glance, but if you look all the way through the door, it is.

The shallow depth of field is good, but I also would have liked it better if your focus point had been a little more obvious.

 

[NaOH]

What does it look like I'm focusing on in the guitar one?

 

[NaOH]

So should I use that shallow depth one? I'm just seeing that it really isn't that good of an example of shallow depth of field.

 

[MixMasterTang]

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
What does it look like I'm focusing on in the guitar one?

I'm guessing either the strings or the ring around the hole in the middle of the guiter (i'm not very musical so I don't know the technical name for it). What is it you need these pictures for? I do like the Guiter picture, but it is a very slight example of a shallow depth of field at best. Here are some more extreme examples.

 

[NaOH]

Need them for a digital photography class.

 

[NaOH]

Anymore feedback?

 

[NaOH]

Just added another picture i could replace the guitar one with or the fast shutter speed with. What do you guys think?

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
Just added another picture i could replace the guitar one with or the fast shutter speed with. What do you guys think?

URL doesn't seem to work for the updated image.

 

[montanafan]

Technically, there really isn't anything wrong with the guitar photo for an example of depth of field, it does show that and should be fine for your class. It's just that when you use depth of field, you're trying to make one thing stand out in great detail from everything else in the photo. In this particular photo you have to really look to see where the detail is and that makes it just a little less than a perfect example. Is this a crop of your original photo? If so, and the original shows more of the background of the guitar toward the neck, it should make the area you focused on pop more.

I like the new dripping water photo for an example of a fast shutter speed better than the sprinkler one, but the sprinkler one would work too. It's just a matter of opinion and depends on whether your instuctor is looking more for just the technical or is taking the aesthetic into consideration as well.

 

[Journer]

good quality and good shots...i dont really get the point of any of them...then again, i never understand art...well...except for music

 

[fire400]

the first one I think is the best

 

[Pegun]

I'm not an expert by any means but in the shallow example it looks as if the foreground of the pickup (i think, im not used to acoustics) is blurred a little too much. Maybe its just me or the angle or the camera's autofocus. Maybe you cant even modify that but i figured id offer an opinion

 

[NaOH]

i think you are talking about the bridge Pegun. I couldn't have had it in focus anymore than i did because i would have to have a longer exposure since I am adjusting the aperature to be smaller. I was also using my hands to take this shot in my room so that could have made the picture more blurry. But yeah, I think I will use that guitar picture even with it's super shallowness. I think it looks that way because of my composition and I was not able to get the whole opening in focus (the ring with the flowery design).

 

[intogamer]

your pics are teh small

 

[NaOH]

They are small cause I resized them to show other people.