Why?
by DaveSM

Comment:
You seem to have a common problem in all three photos you posted about. First off would be the lack of sharp focus. If you were going for a soft focus look, you need to start with a sharp image. By looking at your settings, you use a very small aperature when you could use a much larger and get faster shutter speeds giving sharp results. There is a lack of contrast/flat light. Last major problem would be the darkness around the faces. On this photo, fill flash would have made the subject pop much more while still maintaining your mood.

Fog Aloft
by HighNooner

Comment:
very oversaturated. the green just looks too unatural

IMG_5353.jpg
by LeeD

Comment:
looks like you walked in on something :)

The bridge
by ArnaRos

Comment:
Is this a composition of two photos? I was looking at your portfolio and this photo and 2 others had the same smoke stack and mountains but all had different foregrounds. Just curious.

"The Chinese Herb Shop"
by BeeCee

Comment:
snapshot...

Hot Toddy
by tech

Comment:
i usually use Makers in mine

Alternative Diet: French Fries!
by boyhuntsforbliss

Comment:
DNMC

Yes God? You want me to stop killing mice?
by kawana

Comment:
Ive seen your questions in the posts, hopefully a critique of this image will help a bit. don't take offense to anything.

Pros: Very nice subject, good pose, nice backdrop (could use an ironing though), pretty good composition.

Cons: Lacks details in eyes, focus is not sharp, most of his body is in shadows. Biggest drawback is the focus.

What could have helped? Your lighting was off. The light on the face is nice, but it needs something on his body. You could have used the flash to fill in the light (fill flash).

ISO 100 is great to use to reduce noise or grain, but you need to have enough light. For this, you didn't have enough light and you shot at 1/5 shutter speed. thats too slow for handheld. If you had more light you could shoot at a faster shutter speed, or used flash to achieve the same thing.

Aperature of 4.5. With that lens, its not very sharp at that aperature. Maybe used F8, but again you would needed more light.

The lack of focus looks like camera shake. At 1/5 for a shutter speed, its nearly impossible to get a sharp image handheld. You could have used a tripod to fix that, but then again the cat could move. Faster shutter speed would have made this sharper.

Shoot in bursts of 3. Take 3 pictures right in a row, real fast, your camera has the setting for it. This helps get one sharp shot if you have a living subject that can move unexpectedly.

TIME
by RonB

Comment:
very blurry, only thing in focus is the very top of the presidential seal. probably off the TV given its a point and shoot camera, I doubt anyone in the public w/ a camera would be allowed to get that close. You did capture the confused, mentally challenged look of our president as he tries to form simple sentences.

My try at a postcard.
by Reedman18

Comment:
DNMC