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[mauvais]

Maybe - I reckon that's roughly what you'd use if you were framing it for real. Anyway, you get the idea. I don't know why or how it works, but it does for me, trivial as it might seem. I suppose it's simply defining a strong edge and pushing the interest back into the shot.

Here's a black and white version of the kitchen shot (nearly the same, had to do it again). It doesn't work IMO. Cluttered, and the point to it is lost. The individual items look better, but the scene is gone.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Maybe - I reckon that's roughly what you'd use if you were framing it for real. Anyway, you get the idea. I don't know why or how it works, but it does for me, trivial as it might seem. I suppose it's simply defining a strong edge and pushing the interest back into the shot.

Here's a black and white version of the kitchen shot (nearly the same, had to do it again). It doesn't work IMO. Cluttered, and the point to it is lost. The individual items look better, but the scene is gone.

I agree it looks better in colour, but it isn't a total failure as a photo. A bit on the dark side.

 

[chriswill]

Hehe

 

[dlx1]

beep beep

Yellow

Pink

 

[mauvais]

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All the subjects are centred, which is typically to be avoided. Other than that, they're good, but they - especially the last - could be brought out a lot more with a S curve in Photoshop, e.g.:

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I like the centered truck.

 

[jeff_leigh]

another contribution
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[Chorlton]

another contribution
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good spot for a photograph that - one thing i did notice was the amount of white to the right - kind of distracting me from the bridge and what is under the bridge - not sure croppping would help tho.... but i rarely have a clue what i'm talking about....


my own isn't really up for critiscm (well, please do fire away but i will pay no heed because i like me chocolate box scenery snaps and i'll not listen) but rather to ask your advice:

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7664/panorama9ga.jpg

i have been noticing with my panorams due to my arch-enemy the sun, and me not getting up early enough to catch first light, the photo looks a little washed out -- what, if anything can i do bring it to life a little


ok, feel free to critiscise now...

 

[Chorlton]

not a whole pile of feedback on that.... i did make a few changes to it... improvement?

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/7249/panorama6kb.jpg


(there are 'issues' around the border between sky and mountain in places but i think i can sort those)

 

[mauvais]

Use Autostitch, if you don't already.

Your first one is way too big to view, hence no critique. The new one is quite nice; could be PPed to be a little bit more impressive and punchy without much work.

 

[Chorlton]

Use Autostitch, if you don't already.

thanks just downloaded it, always used the phtotmerge in photoshop before... it says that its demo version? it doesn't appear to be tho??

Your first one is way too big to view, hence no critique.

apologies all

The new one is quite nice; could be PPed to be a little bit more impressive and punchy without much work.

PPed?

 

[mauvais]

Autostitch is a permanent demo for the moment and presumably foreseeable future; you have to download a new copy every so often but it's free. Autopano Pro is the retail version, which is slightly better and much easier to use, but costs money.

PP - post processed. Curves, levels, saturation etc in Photoshop.

If you shot this with a tripod and SLR then a polarizer might have been a good plan too.

 

[Chorlton]

If you shot this with a tripod and SLR then a polarizer might have been a good plan too.

its enough to get myself and a D70 up these hills without lugging up a decent tripod....

 

[mauvais]

Heh, I just use a shit one, Velbon, £30. Helps me climb too, like a fat walking stick

Anyway I only suggested a tripod cos it'd reduce shutter speed a little if you used a polarizer (need a circular one, quite expensive). Brings out the colour a lot more though.

I would have liked to see this one shot a little wider - more of the lakes. They feel a little cut off in their prime.

I find this landscape stuff really difficult, especially the PP. I just can't get it looking how I suppose it might look good, and it annoys me. I also find most compositions pretty empty/lacklustre, and so it doesn't appeal. Good luck if you can do it!

 

[paolo]

Here's one of mine. It's quite silly - I liked the colours of the scene so I played with composition a bit and tried to capture it. It's not entirely worked, and technically it's a bit off, but I quite like it all the same.

Colours are superb. My only criticism would be it looking a bit "arranged". With the wonderful benefit of hindsight I'd have tried making some slight difference in angles/overlaps/depth positions of the subjects.

Otherwise a belter (tech issues aside).

 

[paolo]

And on the basis that it's only fair then, having critiqued, to subject myself to peer review, here's a couple of mine from tonight:

(have now realised I didn't post crop this the way I meant to... the first letter of the word after collection would be dumped if I'd done it right)

 

[Chorlton]

Heh, I just use a shit one, Velbon, £30. Helps me climb too, like a fat walking stick

i have considered a walking pole with a screw-in-thingy at the top before...

I would have liked to see this one shot a little wider - more of the lakes. They feel a little cut off in their prime.

i have been playing around and while i can make it larger - i am trying to stay within the 20x7 dimensions as that is what it would be printed at - so i think that the original image really isn't suitable - i either leave off crib groch at the left and i get a rather flat mountain / lake view of snowdon and the other one or i get just snowdon and grib goch and the entire photograph is bunched to the right.... i'm not sure i should perhaps be concentrating on another pictre tbh

I find this landscape stuff really difficult, especially the PP. I just can't get it looking how I suppose it might look good, and it annoys me. I also find most compositions pretty empty/lacklustre, and so it doesn't appeal. Good luck if you can do it!

I agree.... i love landscape photography since i first clapped eyes on an ansell adams and find it a lot of fun to take but very demanding afterwards.... A quick browse around the postcards around lakeland towns can show you the full range from the quite beautiful to the truly awful photoshopped-andfiltered-to-buggery....

many thanks for the advice tho

 

[dlx1]

nature =
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48/139983615_3a53486c02.jpg Nice colour cream/brown

 

[jeff_leigh]

not a whole pile of feedback on that.... i did make a few changes to it... improvement?

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/7249/panorama6kb.jpg


(there are 'issues' around the border between sky and mountain in places but i think i can sort those)

yeah a definate improvement there, much clearer a little sharper too, shame about having to crop the lake though

 

[snadge]

Taken outside in natural light, raw converted only.

http://www.pbase.com/snadge/image/59672690/original

 

[snadge]

nature =
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48/139983615_3a53486c02.jpg Nice colour cream/brown

I love doing flowers myself and am trying to do it well.

I feel there is too much distraction in this, smaller d.o.f maybe?

 

[snadge]

And on the basis that it's only fair then, having critiqued, to subject myself to peer review, here's a couple of mine from tonight:

(have now realised I didn't post crop this the way I meant to... the first letter of the word after collection would be dumped if I'd done it right)

I really like both of these, the collection pic though, was it taken in portrait mode?

 

[mauvais]

Taken outside in natural light, raw converted only.

http://www.pbase.com/snadge/image/59672690/original

Beautiful. Could be a bit sharper maybe, and is a bit big as an original to fit on the screen. I'm also wondering if some of the other colours can be brought out a little and made lighter - a tricky one that you'd have to experiment with, but it looks a little dark on my [calibrated] monitor.

If somehow the foreground and background tulips could have been offset - one to the left, one to the right - that would have perfected the composition of this image. It's still a winner though!

 

[Cerisa]

I was quite proud of these three
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/smack_barbie/New York/43cb95db.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/smack_barbie/New York/P1010007.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/smack_barbie/New York/P1010020.jpg

 

[mauvais]

I was quite proud of these two
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/smack_barbie/New York/43cb95db.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/smack_barbie/New York/P1010007.jpg

Really like the first one. In some way it's a little cluttered though - if you have any control over aperture then perhaps a wider one would have blurred out the building behind a little.

The second one - the subject building is the most interesting thing, and the image should be confined to it. The other stuff, especially the building on the left, detract from the shot. Crop it out - maybe keep in the top floor of the building below, and everything above and to the left. Oh and it needs rotating

 

[mauvais]

Third one - just spotted - is pretty cool. I can't really tell because I'm on a laptop with a shit, washed-out display, but that's got the most potential. There's loads of subtle colours you could probably bring out of that and turn it into something quite spectacular with a bit more complex playing around in Photoshop.

 

[jeff_leigh]

I was quite proud of these three
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/smack_barbie/New York/P1010007.jpg
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love this one excellent cropping, thats something i've gotta learn about

 

[jeff_leigh]

here's another one of mine

walkway

 

[mauvais]

here's another one of mine

walkway

Heh!

I did that - http://photo.wapoc.com/world/manchester/DSC_7546.jpg.html

I think I prefer yours, though it's maybe a little oversharpened.

 

[dlx1]

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