Some B&W photographs

joolsveer

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=51105813&postcount=35

joolsveer

rymus

the first one seems a little soft but still, its not too bad. The second one is ruined by that bloody branch sticking into the picture.

joolsveer

James Joyce Bridge


Saint Patrick's Cathedral

joolsveer

Liffey from Sean O'Casey bridge

Shrimp

Why did you put these photos B&W?

fletch

Is your first pic the driveway to the house right beside Clonsilla train station?

joolsveer

fletch wrote:

Is your first pic the driveway to the house right beside Clonsilla train station?

That's the place alright.

joolsveer

Shrimp wrote:

Why did you put these photos B&W?

Because I like them in B&W particularly the church and the driveway. The photo of the stone sculpture is not greyscale.

joolsveer

Red Cow Lane


Kings Inns

Morrigan

Nice. Good choice of subjects.
I'm no expert but I would have gone a bit tighter with most of those... for example, with the church I would have brought the gravestones closer, at least cropping out all the grass between them and the frame at the bottom. Maybe I would have moved around to the left a bit...
The pipe with the birds, very nice observation, but personally I would've gone tighter with that too - less water.
But then again I am a zoom whore...I bought my current camera mainly because of its 10X optical zoom.

joolsveer

Fajitas!

I get the funny feeling you live or work very near me...

joolsveer

I live in d15 and work in d7.

Fajitas!

Yup, I live in D7 - Walk past alot of the places you have shots taken every day!

Good to see someone else try get shot's I've been trying to take!

Ruu_Old

Nice lot of photos there, of all I think I like the church one, or red cow lane. Keep up the good work

Shrimp

I think uploading so many photos takes from the desire to comment. Anyhow..

In general, to me, there isn't one that stands out. Unfortunately in this case they just don't appeal to me. However in saying all that, I will try and give a few tips on how I feel you could improve them.

I amn't going to give a critique on each individual photo, but rather on your style/technique. I hope it helps.

In general it seems as though you converted the photos to B&W and thought it just looked better. Perhaps you may be right, but try and ask yourself, doesn't this really make the photo better? What do you gain from making it B&W? What is it that is there when it's B&W, that wasn't there before? Unless you analyse your own work you'll be slow to improve. Sometimes you need to be your own worst critique, and really be rigorous at that.

Although I may not really like these photos, they do have a certain charm as well as showing you have an eye for photography.

Keep taking photos.

Dimy

I kinda agree with Shrimp on this one. Although some of the pictures you posted do seem to work out nice in B&W, the majority of them seem to be converted to B&W just for the sake of it. And the weekest picture of the lot is probably the birds on the pipe.

joolsveer

Shrimp wrote:

I think uploading so many photos takes from the desire to comment. Anyhow..

In general, to me, there isn't one that stands out. Unfortunately in this case they just don't appeal to me. However in saying all that, I will try and give a few tips on how I feel you could improve them.

I amn't going to give a critique on each individual photo, but rather on your style/technique. I hope it helps.

In general it seems as though you converted the photos to B&W and thought it just looked better. Perhaps you may be right, but try and ask yourself, doesn't this really make the photo better? What do you gain from making it B&W? What is it that is there when it's B&W, that wasn't there before? Unless you analyse your own work you'll be slow to improve. Sometimes you need to be your own worst critique, and really be rigorous at that.

Although I may not really like these photos, they do have a certain charm as well as showing you have an eye for photography.

Keep taking photos.

Thanks for your comments. Some of them were taken on Ilford HP5 so were not converted. I think architectural shots generally look better in monochrome. Given that I have been taking photos for some time (about 30 years or so) I somehow doubt my capacity to learn new tricks at this stage. Still we live and learn and tolerate other people's styles hopefully.

Here's one from 1975 for comparison purposes. It is the channel between Valentia Island and the mainland.

Dimy

the horizon of that last pic is tilted... it's a nice pic, but I'd rotate it a bit and then crop the edges.

Shrimp

You can never learn everything..

joolsveer

Dimy wrote:

the horizon of that last pic is tilted... it's a nice pic, but I'd rotate it a bit and then crop the edges.

Thanks for the tip.

joolsveer

Shrimp wrote:

You can never learn everything..

We are in agreement then.

Shrimp

yes.

rabbitinlights

indeed.

joolsveer

some more - this time from Slane

Merrion

The "Kings Inn" photo is probably the best B&W photo I've seen on this site - keep it up.

joolsveer

Thanks Merrion for your kind words. being an old fart I would like to take more "old fashioned" black and whites and that is my aim so thanks again for the encouragement.