Some of my dumb photos

DadaKopf

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Shrimp

The photos were nice, then they just took a U-Turn.. too many to comment on. what camera you got?

captain P

There's alot there to commet on!
I like the first 2 alot.
The 4th i like, but it could be nicer if you warmed up the colours a little i think.
In the tenth its a pity that the persons shoulder is blocking the rest of the man, but there's nothing you could do about that unfortunately.

What camera you using?

snuffles

The first two are really nice, very atmospheric and kind of unusual. Which is always good. After that, they get a bit boring with no real subject. Nothing really striking about them, sorry. I quite like the one with the boats, but agree that the colours are a bit bland. One with the bicycle wheels had potential but the sky's overcast and boring. Also like the old guy on the train, but that's probably because I spend an unhealthy portion of time taking photos on the train myself :P Photographing without them knowing is difficult.

DadaKopf

Thanks for the comments so far. Maybe I should explain where I'm coming from with these photos. I'm not trying to change your minds. I've become much more interested in trying to record things objectively and experimenting with composition, and interrupting expectations. I don't see why photos should automatically go for the 'wow factor', the instant hit. Great photos are vehicles for contemplation or, at worst, unusual and intruiging. It depends on the purpose, though.

Anyway, what I like about those photos, and I know I should have been more selective:

1. Pure atmosphere - I was at a music festival in England in February, went to the beach - it was freezing and windy ...
   
2. ... then it snowed (but you can't really see she's flying a kite
   
3. Cool band (Sunn o))) ) - loads of smoke
   
4. A harbour in Maine - you're right, the key is too low, I'll work on the lighting
   
5. A town in southern Maine, USA - with this one I tried to show a place without actually showing it - I wanted the composition to hide from the viewers where the 'subject' is so there'd be a vacuum in the centre around which the composition coheres - there's an interesting criss-cross of compositional elements linking foreground and background by colour - the rocks in the front link with the outhouse, and the trees in the back link with the tree in the front - on either side, the 'subjects' are only suggested, which implies the world's actually beyond the photograph - I like compositions that are, um, like, 'open systems'
   
6. This was an accident - I liked the raindrops on the car window
   
7. Outside a gas station in Maine - apart from the cool typeface on the Ice box, I thought it was amusing that a (locked) ice-box was sitting on a big lump of snow
   
8. Chalets at that music festival - I wanted to depict the view out the window as naturally as possible by creating a composition that wasn't 'by the book' but also objectively described the place in an interesting way - for some reason I liked the tree and the car as points of interest - I like foreground elements like trees being barely in shot
   
9. The subject of this one is the dark trees behind the big flashlit bushes - but only I know that - this photo is personal - it's supposed to represent a barrier to memories
   
10. The real point of interest for me in this is the big, morbidly obest fat man - not a successful composition, he should be made look fatter, but I thought some of us could do with some dietary tips
    
11. Just an experiement with composition and fill-flash
    
12. Actually, this *was* an overcast day - why should people assume it was a nice sunny summer's day in Vienna? - not much to it, just an interesting subject (actually it was an art installation) - I agree the highlights are blown out but nowt I can do about that - but I really like the bit of litter down the bottom and the flash reflection
    
13. Just a moving snapshot of a town and old Communist era car in the Czech republic - I just like that the photo is descriptive and could, with post-processing - be made look like it was taken in the 1950s, such is the lack of development in this place
    
14. From a Czech bus stop - someone graffitoed this bird on the glass, right in front of an abandoned warehouse - I thought the hand-painted bird suggested something about the Czech spirit of freedom, while the black may also suggest sorrow, while the barbed wire suggest violence and suffering

I don't think it matters what camera I used.

edunon

I love the first two, a straightened horizon would look better in my opinion.
Number 13 will look better if you desaturate it a little bit, give it a try.