My first critique submission...

[Cohazard]

Please give me feed back about this image, I recently got my first DSLR on 01/18/12.

One lesson I learned was do not gravel vaccum before pictures Sorry for the particulates, but aside from that, what can be improved? thank you.

 

[headbanger_jib]

can you add the Exif to the image that will help to tell you what can be done,

anyways here are the things that i would try to correct
- there is some amount of softness of the subjects in the pic
- there is no point of focus in ur pic, i mean something that standsout and captivates the audience.
- the cropping is too tight.

the above is just my opinion, i could very well be wrong.
although its a niiice pic

 

[Cohazard]

Thank you Jibran, i do see the softness.

How do i get the exif data? I checked properties on the pic, none of the data was filled in.

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[greenterra]

Settings are as = 1/2 sec,ISO 100,f/22. (Once you go to properties Serg, click on the details tab and scroll down a bit until you get the relevant info)

As stated in the other thread "I would be bumping up the shutter speed too minimum 1/200th to eliminate blur from movement, ISO is fine and adjust the aperture(f stop) to suit. Will probably be somewhere around f/11 - f/16 depending on your light output from your flash setup. I never use ettl functions on flashes when shooting fish, only manual mode so I can set the flash output to full. Other than that, your off to a good start and should have this nailed in no time"

 

[Cohazard]

Okay I see it now, I wasn't looking at the original file oops, i'm such a noob

I will try the settings you recommended hopefully tomorrow if I get a chance after work.

 

[chonhzilla]

Settings are as = 1/2 sec,ISO 100,f/22. (Once you go to properties Serg, click on the details tab and scroll down a bit until you get the relevant info)

As stated in the other thread "I would be bumping up the shutter speed too minimum 1/200th to eliminate blur from movement, ISO is fine and adjust the aperture(f stop) to suit. Will probably be somewhere around f/11 - f/16 depending on your light output from your flash setup. I never use ettl functions on flashes when shooting fish, only manual mode so I can set the flash output to full. Other than that, your off to a good start and should have this nailed in no time"

I could not have said it any better.

The only difference: I rather love using manual mode on my speedlites all time, regardless of the type of shoot simply because I am terrified of automatic modes, but when shooting fish, I usually set the flash power to 1/4 for faster recycle times. I'm sure most of us had ran into the issue with recycle times and missed that shot. I just compensate with ISO, but never beyond 400 with my little XSi. Other than that Brenton covered everything.


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