Here we go folks. This is my first effort with a new camera and mindset. Hope looking at it doesnt blind you. I used a Nikon N70 with Quantaray 28-80 lens. I used the preprogrammed (idiot) settings for distance and full matrix light metering. It was scanned with a HP 5100c flat bed scanner. No digital changes have been made except to reduce the file size from the original scan.

This is the best of a sorry lot of pictures from my first several rolls. This is an unnamed stream outside of Candler North Carolina. It ran right in front of a cabin we rented during a recent vacation. I like the light/shadow edge in the foreground. I also like the tunnel effect of the tree canopy over the water. It draws my eye to the center of the image.

Thanks in advance for any comments you care to make.

-- Zane A. Kissling (zkissling@geac.com), August 31, 1999

Answers

Yeah, I know.

-- Zane Kissling (zkissling@geac.com), August 31, 1999.

If you post the url for your picture, I will help you get it into the forum.

-- rob dalrymple (robd13@erols.com), August 31, 1999.

here you go

-- rob dalrymple (robd13@erols.com), August 31, 1999.

Thanks Rob!

-- Zane A. Kissling (zkissling@geac.com), August 31, 1999.

It is difficult to evaluate this image because the scan quality is poor. If you apply 40% more contrast to the image it looks better. The compostion is OK, but the image doesn't do much for me. Perhaps try a different time of day?

-- Gordon Richardson (gordonr@iafrica.com), September 01, 1999.

This picture seems to be lacking a subject, I'm sure it was a nice place, but this picture just doesn't say much. My guess would be that in your hurry to try out the new gear, and getting familar with it, your concentration on subject matter and composition suffered. You said in your comments "It draws my eye to the center of the image." but then there is nothing there. My advice is to keep working at it, get familar with your new gear so that it's not a distraction. Then take the time to explore your subject. Don't worry, they will get better, keep at it.

-- rob dalrymple (robd13@erols.com), September 01, 1999.

Never shoot scenes like this one around noon. Advice of a fellow amateur who has wasted enough film on uninteresting shots himself.

-- Tim Askerov (taskerov@subscribe.com), September 23, 1999.