[bluespeed117]

025_1.jpg by Fraganator117, on Flickr

Any critique on this shot is fine. Just went out one day and snapped photos.

[TL]

you should enter that in the Grounded contest

[The1]

looks like a 10-22mm on a full frame body...

[leemik]

is that vignetting on purpose? what exactly is that in the forground? looks like old mac & cheese =)

[The1]

i think it's gravel on the side of a train track.

[mikeinsf]

Originally Posted by leemik

is that vignetting on purpose? what exactly is that in the forground? looks like old mac & cheese =)

lol.. yes I remember seeing that texture in my dorm room many times.

[bluespeed117]

Originally Posted by leemik

is that vignetting on purpose? what exactly is that in the forground? looks like old mac & cheese =)

the vignetting is the lens shade.

[Chewy734]

Originally Posted by bluespeed117

the vignetting is the lens shade.

any reason you decided to keep it in the picture and not crop it out?

[leemik]

heavy vignetting like that is not usually desired.. you should have probably keep the lens shade off.. not sure why the rocks in front look so wierd like that but it's possible that the lens just has bad looking bokeh or somehow some parameter in post processing was boosted too much?

what's your setup? camera/lens?

[bluespeed117]

lens was an 18-70mm. Shot at 18mm with a Minolta 3xi 35mm camera shot on 400 Fujifilm. Im thinking the grain reduction messed with the gravel in the foreground.

[bluespeed117]

Originally Posted by Chewy734

any reason you decided to keep it in the picture and not crop it out?

i kinda like the way it looks, it sort of focuses your eye to the image more. Without the shade, there would be two Iron bars on either side of the frame which i think would be unpleasing.