Nothing much for C&C

abelard

Was in Budapest last October, have had photos lying around for aaaaaages to go through and stick them up on flickr.

I don't really know what I think of them, so any comments good, bad or indifferent are welcome.









There's a few more on my flickr if anyone wants to have a gander.

Thanks

Xiney

The third one (of the green door) is my favourite. Don't like the fourth very much, though - nothing really interesting about it and it doesn't do anything for me.

Borderfox

Nice set, last two have really nice detail in them..

abelard

Xiney wrote: »

The third one (of the green door) is my favourite. Don't like the fourth very much, though - nothing really interesting about it and it doesn't do anything for me.

Yeah I see what you're saying about the fourth one alright. I think maybe it was just an interesting feature at the time rather than something that ended up being particularly aesthetically pleasing

elven

I likes that door. Like how you framed it, rather than putting the feature in the centre. Somehow it also sits really well next to the one above with the dome roof and the blue sky. Lovely rich colours too.

Pigwidgeon

something i really like about the second one.

dakar

I really like the textures and the repetition of the patterns in #3, the muted tones work really well, nicely spotted.

#4 really appeals to me as well, there have been a couple of posts for C&C lately where I've been drawn to what's not there. I love the light and the bokeh and the cobwebs and wondering just what is through the gap. I like when you are invited to fill in the blanks.

An image like that will draw me back for another look much quicker than the perfectly good #1, where I tend go go 'nice building, nice sky......next'.






Of course, that's probably just me:p

abelard

elven wrote: »

Lovely rich colours too.

That's something I'm a little worried about to be honest. I have a tendency to overdo saturation. It comes, I think, from living in Ireland, where I find a lot of photos to just look a little dull (due to the often cloudy weather and low sun), and so I've gotten into the habit of going a bit mad with the saturation and luminance to give pictures more of a sun soaked feel.

It's a habit, though, that I'm finding hard to break.

Just wondering what other people's thoughts on it are, or what kind of colour and tone do y'all go for if/when PP'ing

elven

Notice I said 'rich' rather than 'bright'

I used to be a sucker for colour too, as you say when you live somewhere that's mostly grey it's definitely tempting to whack the saturation up there. I think there's a difference between introducing false saturation and representing the kind of light that you saw though - if you look at the first one with the roof and sky it's actually just the sky that's crazy blue - the green of the roof is actually quite subtle.

One look at the first few pages of my flickr will give you the answer to what I do in pp... i want the viewers to have to work hard to find that colour, oh yeah! I'm going through a 'delicate' phase I think...