LPS #5 ideas

[evoryware]

While I have time to reshoot...

Thoughts?

http://evosphotos.smugmug.com/photos/150547287-L-2.jpg


http://evosphotos.smugmug.com/photos/150547295-L-1.jpg


C & C welcome!

[Flyinggina]

The color version is definitely the better of the two. I think you may want to straighten the cross. It looks as though it is tilted slightly to the right. The sky is interesting but IMHO you need a spectacular sky to make the photo really interesting. If I were you I would keep shooting.

Virginia

[pyroPrints.com]

If I were you, I'd run it though a noise removal (I recomend noise ninja). It will get rid of the noise, and possibly smooth out the image a bit, which might help.

[cabbey]

The noise is killing the shot. I see in the exif you posted in the entry thread that you shot it at ISO 1600, f8, 1/4000. Any reason you needed that fast of a shutter for a still life? I'd say give ISO 200, f8, 1/500 a try if you can get anything similar (or as ginna suggests, more dramatic) in the sky to reshoot. (I think got the math right in my head just now... point is to get out of ISO 1600... the XTi just can't shoot that high without ruining the image.)

Otherwise, as Pyro suggested, go for a noise reducer... but it's still not going to get you anywhere near where a reshoot with a more appropriate ISO setting will.

[evoryware]

Thanks for the input.
You are right. WHen I decided it was about time to go out and catch the shot, there were not many clouds in the sky. Then they rolled out of nowhere. The lighting was constantly changing and I raised the ISO. Then I didn't drop it. Mother Nature and Mothers Day are working against me for a solid reshoot before the deadline. Weather channel says Thundershowers are about to roll in even though it's bright and sunny out right now.