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Ok, what does anon think of this. I've been playing around with my camera for awhile now and thought I'd put something out there.
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>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>62095

A tad dark, but I like it a lot. I just wish you had more color and ligght contrast between the subjects. Also, If anything I wish you had walked further to the right to get the other column in the photo, to balance everything out and line up the monks more.
>> Anonymous
OP here, thanks, I'm still rather new to all this, and I take ti that fiddling with the exposure value would brighten the picture? The column would have been good though.
>> elf_man !fBgo7jDjms
Indoor lighting is tricky, any slower an exposure and you risk a fair bit of handshake, any higher iso and the noise starts getting ugly. That may be about as good as it gets with that camera, and it's only a little too dark.
Hm, I agree, a dead straight on shot, with the column and everything symmetrical, would have been just right.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>62098

nno problem ;) Yes, changing the exposure will bright the photo, but as elfman mentioned you may run into some camera shake, so I suppose "take more than one picture at different exposures and different angles" would always apply ;) Then again, it's whatever works for you and floats your boat, so to speak.
>> Anonymous
well..... You did a lot of things right, your camera did a lot of things wrong. You did everything you could. According to EXIF your ISO was at the max for your camera, you flashed (i wouldn't want to use flash in that setting; i'd be afraid to disrupt them, so you win there), and your EV was pushed up almost to the max. Your camera is known for poor low light behavior.

Compositionally, i agree with Liska, the other column would've been good. I personally would've gone in the other direction though, moving the column toward the center of the picture, stopping at 1/3 from the right, and the statue toward the left. That would've put the statue and the column both at thirds, and i'd aim up so the statues head came down in the picture putting it at the upper left power point (if you know what i mean then *high five*, if not read wikipedia's article on rule of thirds). This angle would've given you diagonal rows in the image, assuming they were in horizontal rows as well as vertical ones. Anyway enough hypothetical positioning; I liked the image anyway and wished the camera did as well as you.
>> Anonymous
OP again, thanks for the info, so basically its 'buy a better camera for this sort of work?'

Like I said I'm new to this lark so I've just been taking pictures based on whether I like 'teh feel' of the whole thing so I'll be reading up on composition for sure. So no high five just yet.

Do you need an SLR or bridge camera for real quality in a photo? or can I shell out £200 so I guess $400 on a good digital camera? This one was a replacement for elephant damage in Thailand.

Thanks.
>> Anonymous
>>62275
$400 gives you some pretty good selection in both the bridge and entry level DSLR categories.

What sort of photographs do you do mostly?