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by Philip Grosset

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"hi, i am getting back into photography after 30 years. i am trying more advanced stuff (for me anyways) i would appreciate your opinion. i tried to frame the water and foliage." (William Tupper)

Your photo, on the left, has, if anything, a little too much foreground framing, so I'm not quite certain exactly where I'm meant to be looking. I presume your main interest is in the water below the branch (it's a pity we don't see the actual falls!) so I've moved a little closer in (on the right) to put the emphasis here. This also removes the rather distracting bit of path in the immediate foreground.

It would be better, though, to reverse the picture, like this, so that the leaning tree leads us into the picture as we read it from left to right.

Quite honestly, this photo doesn't look all that interesting! It needs a main centre of interest. Perhaps someone walking along the path might have helped.

"These are photos done with a Canon Rebel X, Tamron 100-300mm and shot on cheap Fuji film. Your opinion?
Photo 1 - Taken at Botanical Gardens Fort Worth Texas
Photo 2 - same location, while strolling through the park, happened to catch the lighting on this walkway.
Photo 3 - Turtle Creek, downtown Dallas
Photo 4 - random flower." ( Rick Todd)

I'm afraid I don't think these photos are very successful. The first three are not really sharp, so all detail gets lost in a general haze. Apart from this, the first photo, in particular, might have been really pleasing. Perhaps something wasn't quite right with the scanning - or maybe cheap film isn't such a good idea! I can't tell quite what it is that is shown in picture 3 (is it a bridge?), but, as seen here, it doesn't look all that interesting - and what's the white smudge in the bottom left-hand corner of the picture? The most successful photo is the one of the flower because we can immediately see what it is you want to show us, although the flower itself looks a little like a cut-out and would have benefitted from more interesting lighting and by getting in much closer. Sorry!

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