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    Hi,

    I heard of this forum from the podcast. Just got into photography like 2 months ago. Here's the picture I took recently while in vacation in Bangkok.

    Comments/Suggestions please~

    Thanks,
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    Welcome to the fray, Jay! I hope you enjoy your stay.

    I'm not sure what to say with this one. Not sure what you were trying to accomplish. Bangkok is a long way to travel to take a photo of a fence.

    It's a nice fence and the stonework is interesting too, however, everything else is out of focus which leads me to believe you took a photo of the fence. I'm just not sure why.

    Again, welcome to the group. I'll be interested to see some more Bangkok photos!
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    Welcome Jay, is the subject of that photo the sign? The lower right hand corner is cut off, I think the pic would have worked better with the whole sign. The stonework on the right is, as Iggy says, interesting and might have made a nice picture in its own right. I'd like to see some more of your pics, please post some. Kurt

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    The little blurry yellow building is the Grand Palace, the #1 Tourist attraction in Bangkok. I wanted to shoot the Sign with the palace as background. To blurry the Palace is to not distract the main object, Sign. I guess this is a very boring subject?

    Thanks for the advice, and will definitely post more here =)
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    Jay, it's not clear from the photo that the sign refers to the palace grounds. Are you still there?

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    It's actually not a sign for the Palace ground. No entrance the sign for a temple that's across the Grand Palace. And no, I am already back in Toronto.

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    First off welcome Jay!
    I see what you were trying to do here and I like this type of thinking. I'm not sure this is the strongest shot though, maybe it would have been better to crop much of the left side as it is not really adding to the image. Hope that helps,
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    It is an interesting shot, but this angle does show too much stuff, maybe if you cropped a bit to the left excluding the wierd wired post it would turn better.

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    I wonder if it would have been a better shot to focus on the building and have the sign out of focus, but still readable.

    If I was presented with this scene and had to use the fence, I might have used two spikes to frame the building to the right, the one with the orange roofs.
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    I'm wondering if you could have walked up to the fence and shot with the lens between the vertical bits. Kurt

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