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[drewish]

ok be nice..iv only just started getting back into taking the odd snap shot

me fiddling round out and about brum the other week

I really liked the image - interesting angle, and nice contrast between the clouds and the massive architecture of the Selfridges Centre. The only downside for me was the strange shape in the top left hand corner - it needs to be lighter to give it some definition, i think.

 

[drewish]

I like those two. I wouldnt touch them at all. I like a bit of overexposure in my photographs

I much prefer the composition in the second photo - but I agree - the overexposure works really well. Really atmospheric, minimalist photos. I particularly like the footprints on the second shot - as they lead you in to the subjects.

 

[alef]

Hey, new here. just thought i'd share a couple. not really been taking photos for long....am sure i have a lot to learn!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72941616@N00/48123010/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72941616@N00/48127108/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72941616@N00/48123012/

hope they work!

Welcome to u75!

All three photos have quite a bit going on at once, too much in my opinion. Maybe give more thought to exactly what you want to capture rather than putting loads in at once.

The first shot is certainly quite interesting considering the horrible history involved. I like how you've got barbed wire in the foreground and the very green grass behind, although I think having one of the barbed wire lines running right on the horizon makes it bit cluttered.

 

[wiskey]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72941616@N00/48123012/

i like this one

 

[dlx1]

Shame about television ariel
Painter
Sky High
We are not alone

no critics on I spy

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

I like the second one.

Usually if you have your camera set on auto these shots would come out a bit dark rather than a bit light, so I guess you were using some sort of manual mode??

"What could I do in Photoshop to improve/alter them?"

Not a lot. You could open Levels in Photoshop and move the slider on the left side a tiny bit so it meets the start of the curve, i.e. so you have a true black, I guess.

cs 2 has an exposure button too

 

[Firky]

only if you shoot in raw

if you create a duplicate layer in photoshop, and then choose multiply. Then twiddle with the opacity. 16% = 1/2 fstop / rule of thumb.

 

[Firky]

i like painter, but would be tempted to pull the eazel into the shot a little more, maybe pull in the DoF a little, which you can't really do with a compact.

the one of the graveyard is nice, i like it just the way it is. but if it was me i'd drop down to my knees so the height of the headstones creates a line parrel with the eaves, of the thatched cottages.

do me, sir, do me!

terror:

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

only if you shoot in raw

if you create a duplicate layer in photoshop, and then choose multiply. Then twiddle with the opacity. 16% = 1/2 fstop / rule of thumb.

no your talking bollocks the exposeure button is under adjustments for all file types ...

 

[Firky]

that does not give you true exposure, its just an effect, a work around.

wouldnt use it with anything that has been subject to jpeg compression, as the jpeg compression engine always goes harsh on reds, and you get less difference between the shades.

never use the function anyway, prefer to shoot in raw and fiddle

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

that does not give you true exposure, its just an effect, a work around.

wouldnt use it with anything that has been subject to jpeg compression, as the jpeg compression engine always goes harsh on reds, and you get less difference between the shades.

never use the function anyway, prefer to shoot in raw and fiddle

and for those of us who can adjust that compression effect becuase they are already shooting in full adobe rgb ... oh that'd be canon not nikon then

 

[Firky]

eh?

how does the colour profile effect the compression (considering the colour profile is post compression), or vice versa?

adobe rgb is alright, but its not the best to shoot with. looks great on screen but way too saturated if you're not careful when it comes to print, so I tend to shoot in mode Ia, if I'm shooting indoors, or doing portraits of people, mode II / adobe rgb, where as mode IIIa is ace for summer landscapes and autumn colours.

the 3d colour metering matrix is well handy and very accurate. better than dicking about with light meters.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

tis synched innit,

 

[exleper]

ok here's one... I bought a cheap but decent enough digicam from Argos, 3mp. this is my first attempt at 'proper' photography.

It's the view of canterbury from my uni, kind of a cliched type of shot but I'm quite pleased with. Been slightly touched up in iPhoto.

any tips/feedback for a first time photographer - re subject matters, light, etc?

 

[JonathanS2]

Trying to be clever with St. Paul's ...

 

[dlx1]

Firky terror

b&w. were was that taken ?

 

[Firky]

Pfft, um... London *not a native of these parts*, think it may of been around St. James' Park (not Newcastle's footbool ground!).

edit: actually its the battle of britain thingy!

 

[blackadder]

Critic please.

 

[chooch]

Trying to be clever with St. Paul's ...

Quite like that. Helps that it's so sharp and there's a bit of contrast in colour with the sun on St Paul's.

k here's one... I bought a cheap but decent enough digicam from Argos, 3mp. this is my first attempt at 'proper' photography.

Bit of a picture of nothing much. If it's a picture of the layers, the layers aren't strong enough, if it's a picture of the cathedral and some stuff, the cathedral's not strong enough. If it's a general view the composition's not striking enough.

Critic please.

Yeah. Like it. I'd zoom in and crop it so most of the first phone box fills the whole of the left edge...

 

[mauvais]

JonathanS2 - like the concept a lot, but I don't think that particular composition works perfectly, reflection-wise. You may not have been able to improve it at all, I don't know - but I would have run about a little looking for a better perspective. I'd have tried to fit more reflection in, even if it wasn't clear what it was. In any case, I'd have cut out the very bottom to just above where it has the building name - more interesting and slightly abstract that way. However the more I think about it, the more I like it, and it is a strong image so don't take this as heavy criticism - it's not. I just think it could be a little more refined.

exleper - I'd have moved forwards. The bushes on either side really detract from it. If you could pull it off I'd also have taken a shot exposed like you did, and then a shot composed as close to this as you can but taken so that the background is blown but the closer trees are much better exposed; you can then merge the two in Photoshop which isn't as difficult as it sounds.

blackadder - I like the pattern in that a lot. It may just be how you've saved it for web use but I'd like it to be a bit sharper, even if it's via PP. Also if you're using an SLR or have any control over depth of field, maybe increase that a little - again it could just be the save options. More importantly I'd have moved back a tiny bit to include a little more foreground as a sort of lead-in; it could be that it's a bit unbalanced but I find the main subject to take up a little too much of the frame vertically, and would like some more surround. Where was it taken by the way?

 

[blackadder]

It was taken in Preston City centre, would you like to see the uncropt version?

 

[mauvais]

Aye, might as well

 

[blackadder]

Aye, might as well

OK, here it is, please feel free to betterise it for me.

 

[mauvais]

OK, here it is, please feel free to betterise it for me.

Here you go; just a brief crop of what I think looks better - all very subjective.

I'd still have liked extra foreground at the bottom, taken from the top; a bit more pavement to play with in front of the first phone box. Probably just one slab's width would do the trick. I think it's also slightly unbalanced and needs rotating by about 0.5 degrees, but I can't do that without losing even more. Doesn't sound like much and I'm not even that sure (look at the phone box verticals), but I reckon it'd help.

I chose the new crop purely because it's nice to have a bit of context; the people on the right add a little more interest, the tree adds some different colour and the whole composition gives a bit more perspective.

I also sharpened it with the standard PS action but it may have been a little overdone.

 

[blackadder]

You are good, I'll give you that.

 

[dlx1]

BA preston.jpg nice sham about the kids at farend And that but of rubbish on the floor.
litter bugs

wounder what portrate image would have looked like moving more to the left so getting more of and up right of lines of boxes.

still tho

 

[Firky]

Not sure if I like the blooming in this shot:

Thoughts? I know the composition is crap, I was just playing about with metering.

 

[mauvais]

Not sure if I like the blooming in this shot:

Thoughts? I know the composition is crap, I was just playing about with metering.

Hard to say as by your own admission it's quite experimental. Anyway the colours and lighting are excellent; I'd have liked the sun slightly more left so it was behind her hair; the blooming isn't necessarily bad but there's too much very bright area, and maybe it'd help reduce the lens flare over her face. I reckon you could PS that out anyway. As I'm sure you know the placing of the pumpkin spoils it a bit, but that overlooked and with a few tweaks, I reckon it'd have made a great shot.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Not sure if I like the blooming in this shot:

Thoughts? I know the composition is crap, I was just playing about with metering.

That's a good photo. The kid is cute, but the fact that you've got the sunlight, plus clarity of the kid's face, plus the light in the triangular pumpkin eye, makes it technically good also.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

ok here's one... I bought a cheap but decent enough digicam from Argos, 3mp. this is my first attempt at 'proper' photography.

It's the view of canterbury from my uni, kind of a cliched type of shot but I'm quite pleased with. Been slightly touched up in iPhoto.

any tips/feedback for a first time photographer - re subject matters, light, etc?

Too much haze. You should try a UV filter. Also, there's not much in the photo to catch your eye. The neat old building is too far away, and the vegetation in the foreground is too dark to be interesting.