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A child points to the tower of the Populonia Castle, being fascinated by it. The past and the future in a single photo.
  • Hi PROPOLI87, since Ikan Kekek was kind enough to remember me here, let me give you some tips. Yes, it will be hard for you to get FPs with that camera, but not impossible. My first FP was actually made with an even simpler camera, you only need to know the limitations of the camera and work with that. Your camera will make its best shots of things/scenes/object at a distance between 1 and 5 meters. [1] [2] [3] Trying to do panoramas of scenes with a lot of detail, like this castle, will not work for FP.
However, scenes with something in the foreground and not a lot of detail in the background, like water or snow, will work. You are also depending on having a very, very good light to get enough micro-contrast in the photo (light slightly from the side is best). This is because your camera only do photos in JPEG format and not RAW. With RAW, you can correct the light in post-processing and that is very hard to do with just JPEG. A short, very simple, non-technical way of describing the difference between those two photo formats, is that RAW has much more information about the photo, more "nuances", that you can use when you edit it.
You could also think about getting a tripod so that you can take longer exposure photos. That way you can get more light on the sensor. [4] Use the timer on the camera for that so you don't shake the camera when you press the button. You can also think more about the photo's composition and photograph really interesting things, that way the artistic impression will make it easier for the photo to be appreciated. [5] [6] [7]
My last tip is to take very graphic photos and convert them to black-and-white. [8] [9] That way you are not depending so much on capturing color nuances. I hope these suggestions can help you in some way. Be well! --Cart (talk) 13:07, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
+1 – though it’s usually a good idea to get a better system, this is not necessary to take FP-worthy shots. And the best camera for you will always be the one you can most easily handle. Regarding the composition here, in my opinion the child is just too far, making it too small in the frame. To get the contrast of young human versus old building, you should have been 2 or 3 times closer to the kid and have him (looks boyish to me) maybe look up towards the towering castle, startled or fascinated by it. That would be more impressive. Easier said than done, of course :) This is by no means a bad picture, it’s just missing the threshold to be elected among our very best ones. --Kreuzschnabel 15:27, 5 December 2020 (UTC):*Thank you(⧼Anna Massini alias PROPOLI87⧽) (talk) 09:19, 7 December 2020 (UTC)PROPOLI87(⧼Anna Massini alias PROPOLI87⧽) (talk) 09:19, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 1 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--A.Savin 13:31, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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