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Hi @Chantal31180276uvo1 ,
The first image is not very sharp. The color is not smooth. It's grainy. It's too dark in the shadows and some details are lost.
The second file highlights are much too high causing detail loss. The sky is too saturated.
The third file is a little dark and noisy. Your focus seem not to be deep enough.
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Jacquelin
Hello,
Regarding the girl in the sand, for me, it is quite obvious what she intends to do. No explanation is needed. A sled for sliding down snow, in this case, sand dunes. It's called tobogganing in the UK. I think the photo is too over saturated, somewhat under exposed. As there is a lot of light reflection, you have to be careful about exposure.
The girl jumping, generally speaking, it's too dark. You should include the girl's head I think.
The alligator photo, again too dark, too contrasty
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What nobody has mentioned yet. 2066, the girl in the sand, when viewed at 300% you can see artifats in the sky and along the edge of the dunes.
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How do I avoid chromatic aberration?
By @Chantal31180276uvo1
Chromatic aberration will happen on all lenses, if you have a large brightness contrast. More expensive lenses have a better response to that, and it is often easy to correct. The autocorrect function in Lightroom works very well, other programs have similar options. When the autocorrect function does not work that well, you can manually correct it. I then do so mostly by widening the range of chromatic aberration colour that gets considered.
1950: nice colours, great action, but out of focus. I also would guess that the image is underexposed. The girl's head is cut off, that's unfortunate, as some potential use makes using this asset difficult. There is a certain noise level, that will make it difficult to correct the exposure.
2066: the rendering reminds me of old colour prints. Detail is gone in the girl's t-shirt. Whatever you cleaned up to the right and left, you need to do that in a manner, that the editing is not seen. It's obvious here. You need to train your photoshopping ability. The sky is noisy and deep blue, I would think that you pushed the saturation. The shadow on the left is strange in colour and exposes also noise. Overall focus is missing, that adds to the old colour prints impression.
2219: Nice pets, but the contrasts are very hard. Highlights are overblown, shadows are very pronounced. You have chromatic aberration in the reflections:
It looks like you used a direct flashlight. The highlights are also quality issues on it's own, even without the aberration.
Generally speaking, I like the pictures. You have an eye for the situation, and your framing is great, except for the girl's head. But you are, IMHO, combining camera setting and postprocessing errors. On social media, you will get many likes but for general stock use, they are not good enough.
I do tend to underexpose my images, its my understanding they hold the detail better than on overexposed image,
By @Chantal31180276uvo1
Correct. However, it's still better to correctly expose your images. With moving assets, it will be more difficult, but with static or near static objects, bracketing is a great solution. You did not include the EXIF data, so I could not check other settings, like the camera, lens, ISO, exposure time etc. But noise is an issue in your pictures, and lifting the exposure is also lifting the noise level. If you are interested in high-level noise reduction, check this out: High ISO noise reduction.
The jumping girl's exposure would have needed probably a good flash to correctly expose the girl, without destroying the light mood. I highly suspect this picture to be a snapshot of your daughter. Sometimes, snapshots are what they are: nice snapshots for the family album. If she loves posing for you, try to plan such shootings.
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