Hey guys,

Im starting to take pictures to go together with my hobby to travel the world. I hope to take great pictures every city I go. My first work is in Santorini. This picture I take nice or not?

Please comment and give professional input. Thanks.

In this pic I want to show the sunset and couples enjoying the moment like time freeze and everyone just appreciate each other.

my 2 cents:

1. too much noise
2. get a better camera

Hi Yip,

Thnx for your input. Can I ask what u mean by noise?

The people are purposely in the pic to people enjoying life and waiting for the world to pass by instead of the usual busy fast world.

My camera I think is 13 megapixel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_noise

and bigger megapixel does not means better picture quality

learn the basic first

I c.. but I dun think photography is only about expensive camera right? I mean poor ppl also can haf photograph hobby right?

You have skill, but you still need a decent tools to make a good product.

My sunset:



This post has been edited by Ask_Yip: Sep 30 2014, 08:52 AM

I think a lot could be done to save the image before going for a new camera. Fill flash, reflector, exposure stacking, shoot in lower ISO are just some of the first stuff that came to mind.

Ditto that. For most folks, photography is just about capturing the memories.

So happens I just came across these phone snaps from a couple years back. Not the best sharpness, dynamic range and so on but it does the "capture memory" part well enough for me.

IMG_0614 by vmwt, on Flickr

IMG_0619 by vmwt, on Flickr

Wow so nice. You wife in the background? So romantic. Wat the trick when take nice sunset?

A not bad picture imo, but I do feel that the camera limits the picture a little.

Forgive me for editing your picture but the picture looks quite flat and lack of saturation or punch. I boosted the saturation and did a horizontal wide crop to remove empty spaces on the top and bottom part, hopefully it looks better.

wut

Also the picture might looks better when taken with a better camera to provide wider dynamic range ( the couples and foreground are quite dark as they are backlighting to pulling up the shadow to reveal more details about them might result better looking image).

Just my opinions

thnx for your professional advice. I would really like to see your edited image but it not show up.

opps sorry, something wrong with flickr it seems.

wow so nice compared to my pic!!

But I don't have the editing skills. Is it something that have to go along with photography hobby? I was thinking that the ancient ppl who uses the film camera doesn't have access to editing the photo. Maybe it is now digital age and requirements and expectations are different?

Seems a lot to learn in editing like a whole 3 year university course lol

It's not a must, but always no harm to learn

Editing/ PostProcessing can improve your picture most of the time, a simple contrast/tone changing will result a very different photograph.

You can start learning easily at home since there's so many tutorials out there that covers a lot of information, you can use programs that come with your camera (for example DPP for Canon, LR for Samsung). If you don't have any of them , maybe you can download Lightroom for trial (1 month) then decide to purchase the program or not after the trial expires.

Hope this helps

Just ignore the fella who said too much noise and need better camera. That's not even a proper advice.

Your photos looks fine, it's not noisy.

Your idea is there but what you need to pic up is some composition and post-processing skill, that takes time.

Just keep on taking more pictures and you'll improve. Explore the failures of your past photos and work step by step.