Pics from Berlin

randombassist

Hey guys, had the pleasure of visiting Berlin last week. Here are a few of the pics I took, any opinions or comments are most welcome.

The first is of the Holcaust Memorial
The second of the German Flag flying outside the Reichstaag.

Thanks for looking,

Stephen

Borderfox

The Holocaust memorial is errie looking, rightly so. Well photographed. Maybe should have photographed the flag from another angle...

Ruu_Old

Resize them to half that, looks better..only in my opinion though Pretty nice shots but in the 2nd one, whos the person in the bottom left of the pic?

Fajitas!

Love the first one. Second one would be much better without the chap in the left hand corner!

dan99989

I really like the first pic, the corrider effect with the pillars looks great...

Shrimp

The first one is good, Nice Lines, and subject. However the sky is slightly washed out, but I can understand that it was probably as a result of the dark corridor like area you were in. Nice job!

Suggestion: For the first photo, I think you could increase the contrast a good bit, use the white are at the top, exploit it's potential. For example, the Picture is about one quarter white. The white area as you can see is right above the man, and he is surrounded by black, darkness. This is what I mean..

Whopper photo...imo..


What I did, copied the left side, and put it on the right, to make it nice and symmetrical. Then I increased the contrast, and change a few other minor composition elements.

Perhaps?

randombassist

Thanks for the comments guys, yeah I think I'll edit out the guy on the left in the flag, although it amuses me that he stayed still for an entire 15 second exposure! Interesting edit Shrimp, thanks for taking the time. I actually deliberatly blew out the sky while taking the pic to try and emphasise that you were away from the light inside the memorial. I really like how the man is pausing with head dropped.

ScabbyLeg

Shrimp wrote:

What I did, copied the left side, and put it on the right, to make it nice and symmetrical.

Do you mean that you actually took the pillars from the left and mirrored it? Isn't that kind of destroying the photo? Now it doesn't at all represent what the photographer saw in the first place, and it also spoils the intentional non-symmetry that that particular memorial is supposed to exhibit.

The original photo is great. (I hope you had the time to check out the museum that's below the pillars!)

Benster

Random - that 1st pic is very dark and moody, good capture of the subject. It reminds me of some of the levels of Half-life 2. I like that sort of photography and I'd be proud to have taken that pic.

Shrimp - good edit, looks more like it belongs in a dark comic strip.

Cheers,

B.

Shrimp

Thanks guys for the feedback.. as for destroying the pic, I would have to disagree, it doesnt destroy it, if anything it actually emphasises the mood. That's my opinion. Some editing can easily ruin a photo, however when well executed, it can make a good photo amazing!

ScabbyLeg

I probably shouldn't have said it destroys the pic, that was a bit off. I do like the increased darkness, but what I mean is that now it's no longer a photograph of the Holocaust Memorial, know what I mean?

Shrimp

It depends what ones mindset is when taking the photo. If you are taking it to just document the place or event then the need for editing doesn't exists, such as in photojournalism. Now, if you want to take it to arouse a feeling, or mood then editing it to achieve that, in my opinion is acceptable.