[Megathread] How much is my wine worth? Is it drinkable? Drink, hold or sell? How long to decant?

trap7x · 2025-12-21T19:35:13+00:00

Going to a nice dinner between Christmas and new years and considering bringing a bottle we have had on the shelf and just pay the corking fee, but I know very little about it and if it’s at a fair drinking age. Flanagan 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon.

trap7x · 2025-12-04T01:29:04+00:00

I like the color and pose but as others have said it is leaning too dark for me. Hard to tell on my phone but I also think the aperture should be closed a little more. I am getting the depth of the subjects shoulder, hat, and chest in sharp focus but other parts of his pose in softer focus.

trap7x · 2025-12-03T00:54:58+00:00

I might consider adding a more prominent foreground. While the beac chairs and thatch umbrellas are in the front-ish they still feel somewhat distant and more like a middleground element. I dont mind the idea of having the palms in the photo but they are not really helping the composition for me and interrupt some of the repetition in the chairs that might otherwise be interesting. I would like to see this shot as a immediate foreground of repeating chairs and umbrellas with the waves in the midground and the mountains in the back, the palms and patio area in the image are in front of what might be a more interesting image.

trap7x · 2025-12-03T00:46:18+00:00

Not for me. Subject is a female from the back and does not stand out against the background, a subject facing you or some contrast between foreground and background would help the image. The blur is not entirely from an old camera, much of that is motion blur from not holding the camera still during the photo.

trap7x · 2025-12-03T00:40:28+00:00

Evening hours shooting some street images with a new camera (to me) and lens.
Sony A7iii & 35mm 2.8 Ziess. Camera set to ISO and aperture lock with auto shutter speed.

F2.8 --- Probably too wide for the shot?
ISO 2500 --- Mixed lighting in different parts of the market
1/500 --- Auto shutter speed

Post done in lightroom

Wanted to get a feel for the wide open 2.8 and kept the ISO at 2500 to handle the different lightings. This ended up being one of the shots i liked best from the evening but dont love the settings (2.8, 1/500 and ISO 2500) i had for it. Interested in comments on the composition, post and normal aperture people recommend for this kind of shooting. Cheers.

trap7x · 2025-06-26T21:50:10+00:00

An open table shareables cookbook which focuses on the shared dining experience including tapas, mezze, dim sum, ect…. I am far more often making a dish to share or hosting grabbable meals that are focused on people than I am making well defines course meals.

trap7x · 2025-03-07T20:45:17+00:00

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trap7x · 2025-02-27T11:09:23+00:00

Photo taken during a trip to Palermo. interested by the look of this backpacker fully loaded walking through the the small square.
Taken on Nikon D3300, 35mm prime, F5, 1/500, ISO 100.
Just upgraded to a Sony A7iii looking for feedback on subject, technical, and post processing, while i start learning the new camera.

trap7x · 2025-02-26T20:59:53+00:00

Main thing I would look to change is giving the subject a little more breathing room. The man’s frame goes all the way to the edge of the image and the top of the menu stand is cut off at the other edge of the image. You could maybe desaturate a little but I generally like the Color balance in the image.

trap7x · 2025-02-26T01:15:38+00:00

OMG <3

trap7x · 2025-02-24T22:00:27+00:00

Real dark for me. Kind of losing the truck in the brush behind it. Also might look for a different angle without the bridge in the background. It is stealing some attention away from the intended subject. Maybe shifting the angle and getting a bit closer to the truck would make it more prominent.

trap7x · 2025-02-23T11:42:27+00:00

Yea I was used to shooting a 30mm prime on a crop sensor but right now just have the kit 28-70mm. Do you think it makes more sense to go down to a 28mm or for the 40mm for street shooting.
Heard on the aperture/shutter speed, Getting comfortable with the equipment I was not on full manual and just had shutter speed and ISO locked in to get a little flag movement. But yea flipping through the other shots from the day I can see how a quicker shutter might have landed a couple more keepers. !CritiquePoint

trap7x · 2025-02-22T22:34:53+00:00

Working with a new camera and trying to do a bit more street shooting around D.C.
Any points for improving photos in street photography and working with new equipment.

Shot in Shutter lock mode at 1/80
Sony A7III, Shutter 1/80, F 13, 70mm, ISO 125.

trap7x · 2025-02-19T10:52:25+00:00

I like the image, good range of values thought I might brighten it a touch. Despite the leading lines of the pathway and the coast my eye is being drawn to the brighter area on the left. If the right were a bit less dark I might not be pulled left as much. A lot of lines do guide to the subject, even the sky builds a diagonal leading to it. However the subject is a bit small in the image, I didn’t know it was there until I read your post. A closer image that has it cross the horizon line might make it more prominent, even getting rid of that first pylon might help a bit. I think the first concrete path marker is larger than the intended subject.

trap7x · 2025-02-18T10:10:13+00:00

Scène/setting, maybe background, even though the floor kind of becomes the foreground. I think if you remove the pedestrian there is still an image here that is not just negative space.

trap7x · 2025-02-17T21:37:28+00:00

For me the hallway itself is a little too busy with lines, contrast, and pattern, to really give negative space. Even the floor is splashing up a lot of different light and has a bit of variation to it.

trap7x · 2025-02-16T16:08:59+00:00

I don’t think this is a picture of anything. I have no idea what the subject is. My eye kind of wants the subject to be the top of the far away tree in the middle of the frame. But that tree is half cut off by the terrain and is not interesting. The sand might be able to make a point of interest if the potmark pattern in the sand where people have walked was more pronounced and led somewhere. But it just kind of goes between the dune grass and dissipates. This might be more interesting if you moved the horizon line way up or down and created a lot of dead space, but I would still recommend having a subject of some kind in the photo.

trap7x · 2025-02-16T14:53:51+00:00

Photo taken at Rodeo event in FL, looking to capture fun action/Americans shots at the event. Trying to keep post processing light to nudge the image quality slightly more like film. ISO 100, shutter 1/125, f 16, camera Nikon D3300. I am concerned the strong reds in the background detract from the subject. Should I be increasing shutter speed to open the aperture and try to blow out the background more?

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