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[teuchter]

This one is taken from the Tutankhamun exhibition manchester in Manchester.

It looks like a postcard you would buy in the museum shop, having just visited the Tutankhamun exhibition.

 

[Sergeantbilco]

First Post, First Photo post. Would love an opinion...

 

[teuchter]

First Post, First Photo post. Would love an opinion...

Fixed for you.

The general idea is ok but the dinosaurs are lost somewhat in the darkness at the bottom of the image. Maybe something where they were silhouetted as well as the wheel would have worked better.

 

[Tankus]

What do you reckon to this panorama I took in Rome a few years ago? That's my missus to the left btw

Click for image

great subject ...like crispy sez , better from the other side , all the brickwork would be well lit too

 

[mauvais]

Fixed for you.

The general idea is ok but the dinosaurs are lost somewhat in the darkness at the bottom of the image. Maybe something where they were silhouetted as well as the wheel would have worked better.

Is this Pripyat?

You could probably add gradient light as an overlay in Photoshop or similar to bring out the foreground. Like this:

 

[black_mamba]

Yum, Chernobyl.

Here's my photo for anyone to criticise. I picked what I consider to be one of my best and favourite shots! Only because I can't see anything wrong with it. Open to suggestions though...

Taken during an enduro event in Hampshire.

 

[Blunders500]

One from somewhere fairly local in SE London

 

[teuchter]

^ borderline over-HDR-ed

 

[Blunders500]

^ borderline over-HDR-ed

Indeed I agree with you - I wanted to bring out the flagstones on the floor, which are not too far from how I see them. It was fairly dimly lit in there so the process suited the image <imo>

 

[chandlerp]

The interior of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool on Sunday afternoon

 

[Kippa]

I like the perspective in the Anglican Cathedral, my only critisim is that the coloures are overly saturated.

 

[edwinchester]

I've just bought a 100-300 lens and took it away with us when we went visiting friends. I spotted a swallows nest in the rafters of an out building and sat myself under a kids trampoline outside to get a shot up through an open windowframe from close enough without disturbing the parents who were flying in and out feeding the chicks. Still had to be bloody quick though and didn't manage to get a 'perfect' shot but given more time and luck I may have done. Any hints on improving shots like these?

 

[xsunnysuex]

These were taken by my daughter with my new (second hand) camera. Not bad me thinks.

 

[edwinchester]

These were taken by my daughter with my new (second hand) camera. Not bad me thinks.

Nice. What size lens?

 

[xsunnysuex]

The lens is a 27mm LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT Lens
http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews_panasonic_lumix_dmc_fz28.php

 

[Tankus]

One from somewhere fairly local in SE London

...... really really like this

 

[Artaxerxes]

That is pretty neat, where is it?

Still had to be bloody quick though and didn't manage to get a 'perfect' shot but given more time and luck I may have done. Any hints on improving shots like these?

Tripod defintely, I'd say a bit more light as well but that might disturb the wee things.

One of mine, this was taken at Yumchaa in Soho and fiddled with in Photoshop

 

[OneStrike]

I have a personally important photo to share but almost certainly poorly shot, is this the best thread?

It might be the vodka, but Artaxerxses above makes me think Dali, Owl angry in equilibrium, weight of time, in the order my squirrel brain thought.

 

[drewg]

Took this on a cycling holiday in Thanet, Kent.
landscape there lends itself to panorama pictures. Taken with a samsung 15500 mobile
Here's another

 

[becki1701]

Mt Bromo in Indonesia....maybe too much bush in the foreground..?

 

[becki1701]

And now that I see it here the colours aren't very deep!

 

[Utopia]

Some excellent/random images on here!

Here's one I took on a Greek island last week -

 

[sim667]

One from somewhere fairly local in SE London

Where is that?

 

[RoyReed]

Where is that?

Crystal Palace - the subway under the old high-level(?) railway station. Stunning Victorian brickwork. I think it's normally closed to the public.

 

[sim667]

Ah excellent..... its got some beautiful brickwork in there.

 

[drewg]

^^that is in London!?
Looks like that moorish place in spain. the al hambra or something. Amazing picture colours and perspective. Is it accessible to the public?

 

[RoyReed]

No, as I said it's normally closed to the public. I got in a few years ago when access was allowed as part of the 'Open London' scheme. You can read more about it here:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/crystal_palace_subway/index.shtml

 

[sim667]

Id love to go into some of these place on that site!

 

[mauvais]

 

[teuchter]

^ Seeing as this is the criticism thread...

I like it but for me two things stop it from being great photo-

1) I think it's a bit too symetrical, ie boring composition-wise
2) It maybe falls between two stools by being sort of a bit abstract, but not abstract enough.