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[mauvais]

Reet... Markyd - the wonky horizon's the first obvious thing. After that, I'd say it's too gloomy, even given the subject, and I'm looking at it on a calibrated monitor. It's not so much just plain dark as a lack of contrast. I'd probably up brightness & contrast by around 10 & 20 respectively. Composition's quite nice; maybe would have played with moving it up and down to meet the rule of thirds, see if that would work in this case. The main thing's the date, as you know. Turn it off

Tangerinedream - the second one - for me, it needs a bit more balance at the bottom - it ends kinda short. If it's cropped then sod the aspect ratio, and if not, then zoom out a bit. Other than that, nice balance of colour, good warm tones, good shutter speed choice, and I think fairly sharp - if a bit overdone on that front.

Tangerinedream - the first one - bit weird. It's cluttered, but it works. The composition is spot on, even though I don't quite know what's going on. It's a bit nightmarish and also reminds me of some illustration styles I've seen. I would say again it's oversharpened - needs a bit, but this is too far. I'd also like the blues at the bottom to be deeper so I'd play with saturation, possibly only for certain channels, and see where that got me.

 

[Markyd]

Reet... Markyd - the wonky horizon's the first obvious thing. After that, I'd say it's too gloomy, even given the subject, and I'm looking at it on a calibrated monitor. It's not so much just plain dark as a lack of contrast. I'd probably up brightness & contrast by around 10 & 20 respectively. Composition's quite nice; maybe would have played with moving it up and down to meet the rule of thirds, see if that would work in this case. The main thing's the date, as you know. Turn it off

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Yeah thanks. Knew about the horizon.

Cheers for taking the time.

M

 

[jeff_leigh]

thought i'd make a contribution here

 

[mauvais]

Alright, a couple from me. Neither are the best I've taken recently, but they have a little more scope for critique. Here's the first, and here's another. The latter's more interesting to me as I rarely do landscapes, and even less frequently get something good.

All were taken at Edale with the D70. The full set's here. Cheers

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Alright, a couple from me. Neither are the best I've taken recently, but they have a little more scope for critique. Here's the first, and here's another. The latter's more interesting to me as I rarely do landscapes, and even less frequently get something good.

All were taken at Edale with the D70. The full set's here. Cheers

You're an excellent photographer, imo. I love the hills, creek, fence one. I'd put it up on my wall.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Ignore the date thing fucking camera.

I like it a lot, but I think it needs to be a touch less dark, and should have a touch more resolution.

 

[jeff_leigh]

 

[mauvais]

Contrary to what I normally say, it feels a bit open. There's too much empty space or maybe just too much to absorb, I don't know. Try a tighter crop, losing enough from the bottom to get rid of the immediate foreground (grass). Maybe also a little off the right. There's a lot of interesting colour and shapes but they need to be forced into being the subject. All this depends on how big your original is and whether you can afford to crop, I guess.

Otherwise it's pretty good; maybe a touch more saturation, especially reds & greens. It looks a little off-colour; don't know why, but mainly the sky. It'd be interesting to see a bigger copy of a finished attempt on this basis.

Oh and Johnny; thanks a lot! Really appreciate your kind comments

 

[Markyd]

I like it a lot, but I think it needs to be a touch less dark, and should have a touch more resolution.

Cheers Jc its a point and shoot cheap snap camera. and I'm happy with the result bearing that in mind.

Thanks to all for taking the time to write. I appreciate all comments in a constructive sense

 

[DJ Bigga]

Hello you lovely people

A mate of mind asked me to do some shots of him at a recent gig. So here are the results. I reckon my monitor needs calibrating cos my missus looked at work and says they're really dark. I know one of the sepias is over done

Anyhoo, whaddya think? Hmm?

Clicky

 

[jeff_leigh]

Anyhoo, whaddya think? Hmm?

Clicky

i like the second one (img_0840.jpg) the fourth one (benn01.jpg ) just bring up the highlights a touch but the Black and white ones definately do more for me than the colours

 

[DJ Bigga]

i like the second one (img_0840.jpg) the fourth one (benn01.jpg ) just bring up the highlights a touch but the Black and white ones definately do more for me than the colours

Thanks dude, So they don't look too dark then?

 

[mauvais]

I think it varies - some are just fine, but ones like this:

are waaaay too dark (calibrated monitor). There's plenty in between.

 

[jeff_leigh]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64278732@N00/117644136/

 

[mauvais]

Here's one of mine from Ancoats in Monchestoh:

I want to, and probably will, go back and do it again, because I think it could be done better. Still, what do you reckon?

If you've got the time, there's some more: two, three, four

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Here's one of mine from Ancoats in Monchestoh:

I want to, and probably will, go back and do it again, because I think it could be done better. Still, what do you reckon?

If you've got the time, there's some more: two, three, four

I like the first one best; great b&w contrast.

 

[Firky]

three, four

I really like this one

 

[ed]

a cry for advice!

so i took this photo...

as you can see, it came out pretty terribly. that's because i'm a complete novice. you can probably imagine how nice that scene looked in real life.

i took this with flash off. should i have pointed the (digital, olympus c350) camera up a bit, to get that bright bit of sky in the centre more, & so the camera would compensate a bit? am i just stupidly pointing my camera at the sun and hoping for the best? haha

any advice would be appreciated - some of my photies are coming out very nicely these days, but it seems to be a bit hit and miss.....

 

[mauvais]

Basically there's nothing you can do. Digital cameras have a lower dynamic range and what you're asking it to do is capture a massive amount of light from the sun, and yet a tiny amount from the shaded buildings, and display both accurately. It can't.

The best you could hope for with any digital camera, and the same applies albeit marginally less to film, is either to capture the sunset and the buildings as silhouettes, OR, the buildings in detail and a washed out sky. What you could also do is take both of those photos and blend them, but that's way more complicated.

 

[ed]

hmm...

ok, thanks for your advice!

 

[mauvais]

Worrrrr, it's Mister Lizard!

 

[Negativland]

Here's one of mine from Ancoats in Monchestoh:


I want to, and probably will, go back and do it again, because I think it could be done better. Still, what do you reckon?

First one's good, like artificial rock strata made of city junk. It is kind of tonally flat (I mean equally high contrast all over) but that just adds to the scratchy textural overload of it in this case. Still, it would be interesting to see it in different light.

I'm not sure about short depth of field effects in photography, in your iguana pic it works brilliantly, draws you right in to its face and claw - but in the peeling brick wall pic it's kind of obtrusive and doesn't add much.

 

[northernhord]

candle

I took this one with my little webcam eye that I use for my ebay photos

 

[Firky]

looks like looking out of a cave at dawn

 

[northernhord]

looks like looking out of a cave at dawn

Fuckin ell so it does, it also looks like someone lying down if you look at the brighter bit at the top

 

[jeff_leigh]

Fuckin ell so it does, it also looks like someone lying down if you look at the brighter bit at the top

with a big nose and wearing a hoody

 

[northernhord]

with a big nose and wearing a hoody

the big nose bit is actually where the genital area is, the head of the person lying down starts on the left

 

[jeff_leigh]

the big nose bit is actually where the genital area is, the head of the person lying down starts on the left

i'm thinking of just a face not a whole figure, but yeah i can see what you mean

 

[Firky]

Stokie

 

[mauvais]

I love that, and the set it belongs to. I wish I could find somewhere accessible with a bit of life to it - the old factory I know up here is OK, but it's devoid of anything. What's the story with this place?

Oooh, critique then... not quiiite straight maybe, and it's a shame about the blooming. Any chance of clever photoshoppery maybe with a reduced exposure merged in for those bits? Aaand dodge and burn could change this, maybe add something to do. Check out my urban exploration thread for what I did to kerb's to see what I mean.