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Carl-E:
Yeah, I always opted for the smallest aperature possible under the lighting circumstances, because I didn't trust my eyesight for focus and wanted the deepest depth of field I could get. 

Made for some interesting pictures...

wrwight:
hm. It's been quite a while since I've logged into these forums. I'm curious though if anyone has anything to say about any of my newer pictures. I've improved a lot, but of course I'm not there yet, and if I ever think I am, someone please put me in my place.

Freakie:
Lol, this is funny, I just checked this thread again too after completely forgetting about it for a while xP

I think you have improved too :) Those new shots definitely have a different feel to them than the older ones and the colors are not getting as over saturated. What you may focus on more next is... focus! Or rather, your aperture. It definitely isn't as extreme as you had it before, but I am noticing one particular reoccurring theme in some of your shots. When you do wide angle shots, like of the "Nice House", you don't have your aperture closed enough and so not enough is in focus. Since the object of the picture is the house its self, and the house is at a varying depth away from you, you really want a small aperture to help get the entire thing focused well. If it was me, I would have probably gone for f/18 or maybe even f/22. It is a bit difficult to do your aperture well in the field, of course. The screen on the camera just can't show you what the computer will show you so you might want to do some trial and error shots at home at different apertures and then look at them on the computer so that you can get a feel of the difference it will make. Nothing like blowing the picture up and going "Well now, I could have SWORN I zoomed in on the camera after taking the picture and it was perfectly in focus" to show you just what is happening :P

Also, your second "D" photo I noticed a bit of an editing error on the water xP The line where you separated the water from everything else so that you could edit the water is rather obvious :P I don't use PaintShop so I couldn't tell you how to do it specifically, but I would think that there should be an option to create what is called a Mask and masks are kind of like just straight out selecting the line between the water and the rest of the picture so that you can create a new layer, but instead you do it with something that is more like a Dodging tool or one of the other tools that you use a circle to click and drag it around to to fine editing/like the Spray Can in Paint. You can use that to highlight the water and when you get to the edge of the water, you use a small circle with a low intensity and it will let you make a "soft" boarder between the water and the bedrock so that way any edits you do to the Mask will gradually lead into the edge, instead of being a sharp drop off!

Other than that, there are just individual picture nit-picking. Like easing up on the ISO on the "Stairs" and "Classy" pictures and having you DOF not so shallow for the "Classy" and "My new little friend" pictures because you don't have the entire alligator/wine glass in focus.

And I definitely like "The Old Man and the Pond" picture :)

Nice desktop by the way! Did you build it yourself or order it? Specs? *is a computer nerd way more than a photography nerd*

wrwight:
Thanks. Yeah, Aperture is definitely something I tend to not pay enough attention to. I've dumped so many pictures 'cause the DOF is too shallow.

The computer was actually my friend's. I'm a computer nerd as well, but at the moment I don't have a desktop, and rely on my laptop. I keep saying I'm going to build one, but I never get around to it. Music and photography take up all of my money.

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