Category: picture problems

I received another photo from a friend to evaluate here. Here are his comments on his photo:

This was a 9 second exposure using my tripod. I was originally intending to get the cars on the outside road shooting from inside my complex, but when I saw a car coming down the driveway from inside our complex I quickly hit the shutter release. I was using a wider aperture so as to get stuff in the background more in focus, and in that sense it worked although do you think it would have been better if I had left it out of focus? Anyways, I really liked the way the taillights have a sweeping fiery pattern.

My budding photographer friend sent another photo my way for a bit of critique. Here are his original comments on the photo:

The school slaughtered a pig for us, and some of us roasted the meat over bonfires. Several kids set sticks on fire and began swinging them around, so the slower shutter speed was cool for the shot. For some reason it doesn’t look as sharp on the computer as it did on the camera’s LCD, but I still like it. I wish I could have got one of the kids in the picture clearer, but oh well.