C & C, for new person

jam_mac_jam

Hi all, I would really appreciate some C & C on my photos, If you wouldnt mind. Still learning so I am not up to the standard of most on here. Any tips at all appreciated.
Thanks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jammacjam/

rymus

what I know some people are going to point out is that there's a hell of a lot of photos there to request comment on. .Maybe you could isolate a few that you think you could benefit from experienced eyes looking at? Overall to me, after having a quick scan through most of them, I think they look good for a beginner.

Some of my favorites are in the Egypt set, especially this one - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jammacjam/467483290/in/set-72157600840009307/

I think it'd benefit from a bit more contrast to bring out the sky a bit more, but overall theyre not bad. Welcome to the photography board

jam_mac_jam

rymus wrote: »

what I know some people are going to point out is that there's a hell of a lot of photos there to request comment on. .Maybe you could isolate a few that you think you could benefit from experienced eyes looking at? Overall to me, after having a quick scan through most of them, I think they look good for a beginner.

Some of my favorites are in the Egypt set, especially this one - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jammacjam/467483290/in/set-72157600840009307/

I think it'd benefit from a bit more contrast to bring out the sky a bit more, but overall theyre not bad. Welcome to the photography board

Fair point, in future I will stick to specific ones. Thanks

AnCatDubh

Wow - someones been on a walkabout eh! Bit of a scattergun approach follows but here goes anyway;

I like the sunsets of barcellona and as you learn more about photography you will find lots more that you can do with them.



for example in the one above, when setting up the shot you could lose a quarter off the top of the image and give it to the bottom of the image - i'm guessing that a little change like that would improve a lot. But its quite nice anyway.

In the sunset below, you've picked some nice strong lines along the curves which really work well. Again in this one you have a lot of vacant real estate at the top of the image. Watch what's getting into the shot - top right hand side of your image there is what looks like a gutter or side of another building. It takes greatly from your image. You can still salvage something like this by simply cropping out the side. Its always better to sort it out when you are composing the image but then again most will generally crop liberally in post production.



In the one below and some others in your stream, watch out for horizons - the guide on horizons is to keep them straight. If you read elvens current thread on breaking the rules you will see that this is not always the case. 'Crooked' horizons can be used creatively as demonstrated in 'bovril's gig thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055228667;



The next one is probably one of your finest (imho)



I love the colours. I love the light. You have found an occasion where cropping 'too tight' actually works i.e. you break the rule/guide and its worked very well for you. Lovely one. Nice take and well done here.

I think in more cases than not, you need to pay a little more attention to what the composition is and what you are trying to achieve. For example, in the following one which looks to be a fabulous building; you've missed the spire of one of the tower structures (left hand side of the building) yet retained it on the other side. You have the building off center and i'm thinking that it doesn't really work. Positioning yourself further to the right of where you actually took the shot would have assisted. Heres another example of the horizon which doesn't give an aesthetically pleasing take;



To contrast the above your one below is dead cool - you've broken the rule/guides and it worked. You have a creative horizon line and it has a pleasant crop bringing in aspects of the tree and the building.



I hope the above is of interest / use to you. Fair play to you for getting them out there - not always easy to do. I've tried to keep some balance in the critique. You have some nice takes in your flickr stream and many that you will learn from as you improve your photography skills. Concentrate on composition - what looks aesthetically pleasing and you can get creative after that as your skills build up.

Best of luck.

jam_mac_jam

AnCatDubh wrote: »

I hope the above is of interest / use to you. Fair play to you for getting them out there - not always easy to do. I've tried to keep some balance in the critique. You have some nice takes in your flickr stream and many that you will learn from as you improve your photography skills. Concentrate on composition - what looks aesthetically pleasing and you can get creative after that as your skills build up.

Best of luck.

Thank you very much. Very helpful.