Fishy Clicks - Critique

[Abhi]

[sushant]

Now those are some good pointers Joyace dada.

shooting a subject there a few things that are essential
- subject has to comfortable
- no distracting elements in the image
- a niiice contrast
- a balance in the image composed
- as much detail of the subject that can be captured keeping the above intact

in your image the things i would not keep
- the decor of the tank being distractions
- would've cropped the blurred bottom of the image, thus giving more prominance to the fish than the clippedd and blurred sand
- removed the reflection that is there on right top corner
- would've tried to keep the fish on the most highlighting point of focus(following the rule of thirds - as iwagumi suggests )
- would've waited for the fish to come closer to the front of the glass, to gather better details and to get better exposure

now thats an expert opinion,learnt something new from the above two comments

[Abhi]

[Abhishek]

Jibran bhai my god what beautiful observation you have

Will try to implement the points you have said in the next image while clicking and also post processing too

[Abhishek]

Abhi first two images are good

Coming to the last image, the subject i.e. channa is out of focus whereas the corktail vals are on focus, check it out.|
Cropping the bottom green leaf could have been as it dont serve any purpose.

Lets wait for others suggestion too

[Abhi]

Abhi first two images are good

Coming to the last image, the subject i.e. channa is out of focus whereas the corktail vals are on focus, check it out.|
Cropping the bottom green leaf could have been as it dont serve any purpose.

Lets wait for others suggestion too

Agreed.


Not: That's not a val but echinodorus vesuvius

[jibran_shariff]

hmmm
i would reiterate
try to get the subject at an offset based on rule of thirds instead of the usual idea of centre

abhi, i have edited ur pic, i hope you wouldn't mind, but if you do let me know and i shall remove it

anyways three step pp and here is the edited pic

IMAG0400-edit.jpg

the three steps i did were
- did some color correction
- increased the constrast
- and cropped out the distracting elements
- cropped it such that the subject is at a rule of thirds focus point

[Abhi]

No issues at all. Can see the difference. I don't edit my pics at all. No correction or whatsover. What app did you use?

[jibran_shariff]

No issues at all. Can see the difference. I don't edit my pics at all. No correction or whatsover. What app did you use?

i used Irfan view

hmmm
there are a few misconceptions people have about editing images.

when you edit to enhance the image that you have captured there is no problem.
to justify my claim, of the 3 images that you have posted this image was the one i chose because
- the subject was in focus,
- the subject was well lit
- there were no distracting elements very close to the subject.
- the image had a good contrast.

to be summarise this image was a good one, the only issues it had was
- there were a few distracting elements in the image which could be removed by just cropping the image
* like the tail of the other shrimp
* the string using which the plant is tied
* the rock to which the plant is tied.
- although the image is sharp(this i say because the eye of the shrimp is quite sharp), there is some amount of detail that is not caught to the eye because
* the contrast in the image is a little less,
* the image is a little over exposed which makes the subject look a little blurr.
- although the colors of the plant have come out well, the shrimp looks a wee bit dull.

above are the steps i have taken to edit the image, i have tried to explain the reasons behind the specific steps i have done to edit the image

[Abhi]