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oh wow nature! Anonymous
I took some of these at a local park before work. This is one of my first times shooting with this camera, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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>> Vincent
>>72412
Thats your best of the three, The Tree is your focus, and if you recomposed a little and took out more ground you could get the branches from the overhead tree to frame the picture almost.
As is there is a bit too much grass at the bottom, and its a little overexposed (clouds have no detail in them)
Also the oversharpening on the tree branches at the top is a bit distracting, not sure if that was you or the camera doing that.

The first pic would be better if it had a background too it, Its not really that interesting on its own, so it needs to have some sort of background setting, or something to make it interesting (The lighting is flat on it aswell, so that doesn't help)
When taking a pic, remember a few things
Good Subject
Unobtrusive foreground and background (Unless its part of the focus of the pic)
and good lighting!
>> Anonymous
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and that's all I think that are worth showing. This one's irrelevant to the other ones.

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>> elf_man !fBgo7jDjms
>>72412
I agree, best so far. Good lighting, really singles out the tree.
See that dark spot in the upper right? Hope that's on the lens.
>> elf_man !fBgo7jDjms
>>72416
Okay I like this one too, although I think that center line might be better shifted either up or down, it feels awkward where it is.
>> Anonymous
>>72417

It was a spec of dust on my lens, I noticed it the day before, but only took it to a camera shop to get it cleaned, because I sure as hell wasn't doing it myself. It was free, and it was only a spec of dust :3. Thank you for the feedback!