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[Jay.Yang]

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,
Jay

[Iguanasan]

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!

[kurtdriver]

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

[Jay.Yang]

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 =)
Jay

[kurtdriver]

Jay, it's not clear from the photo that the sign refers to the palace grounds. Are you still there?

[Jay.Yang]

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.

[jmayoff]

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.

[kurtdriver]

I'm wondering if you could have walked up to the fence and shot with the lens between the vertical bits. Kurt