how oh how is he a "profetonal" with a studio and getting jobs where he covers weddings and 250 to 500 person photos while not knowing about how to use flash?

advice for him, a) get a professional camera, b) get flashes for lighting, c) find a new job, d) I'm cranky this morning

is it bad that I'm half tempted to ask for samples of the problem just because I'm in the mood to laugh

(I get really cranky when ill)

yo

time to show off some pics

@Shyju not bad, wish there was more going on with the clouds, nothing wrong with the image, just feels like not much is going on with the sky, not unattractive, just not terribly interesting to me

but still a better choice than having the field be the majority and I like the composition of the lighthouse and the piers

@AJHenderson: Thank you for the welcome, and thank you (and all the others) for your contributions to photo.so - it has been an awesome resource

there was not much light

drove 2.5 hours to get the sun light

@Shyju: I'd try cropping out the topmost part quite aggressively - maybe 2:1 aspect ratio?

@Shyju yeah, you shoot the best you can with the situation

@JohannesD yeah, a panoramic might work better, but I'm not sure if there is enough detail for it to be that big of a panoramic or not

might be worth trying as a series of narrower shots that you can piece together

if the sky isn't cooperative

because that shoreline would make a nice pano

@JohannesD thanks, it's always nice to know that it is a helpful resource

before I went to school for electronic arts, most of my knowledge came from people who shared it freely with me, so I like sharing back out and learning from others doing the same

we have people ranging from highly technical to highly artistic on here, so it's a pretty awesome resource for anyone from beginner to professional

@Shyju that's my favorite of the two main photos, though I think maybe the DoF is too shallow

and there isn't really a clear subject since things are in focus on either side of that one flower clump that is too close

and the background is just a hair too blurry so it ends up feeling detached

alternately, for that short of a DoF, I'd probably have taken a lower angle

sky being more heavily blurred is less disconcerting as it is expected to be highly distant

@JohannesD LR4 showed a good deal of improvement over LR3 and previous version with regard to NR. Prior to the release of LR4 it was generally accepted that the versions of DPP available at that time did a better job of NR with .cr2 files than LR did.

@JohannesD Since the release of LR4 there has been more debate about which is better and which results are better can be more opinion based. In my personal experience with DPP, to get the most out of the NR capability you must also use the unsharpen mask to fine tune the sharpening as well.

@JohannesD What chrominance noise reduction value did you use for the image processed with DPP?