A smattering for C&C

superflyninja

thanks

paulusdu

1at and last would be my choice of the best out of the bunch. the other three don;t "do" anything for me really.

Number one has a very creepy, midnight walk in the dark feel about it

last picture is amazing, one of the best of that type i have seen, if i had to be critical, i would cut out a bit of the sky. But really is a super shot

superflyninja

thanks a mill. for the last is it more of a square shape you mean?

kelly1

I think that church shot is great!

FoxT

I love #1 - fantastic mood to it.

#2 & 3 don't work for me, I'm afraid.

#4 - lovely shot but the roof is so burnt out that it does take away from it overall. If you have a RAW file ( or a couple of bracketed RAWS) you may be able to recover the highlights while retaining the beams of light. There is also a bit of a problem with your verticals here, not sure how best to deal with that...

#5 - Absolutely splendid. As paulus said, I would also consider a square crop for this, or at least remove some of the sky - beautiful shot though.

Thanks,

FoxT

ThOnda

#2 for me all the way! What a cracker!!!

superflyninja

Hi all thanks for the responses.
Just as a quick note on the blown highlights etc. Ive submitted this batch of photos together as they are all related. What I was trying to do with the PP was just get the feeling/mood of the photos right and not worry about blown highlights/lost shadow detail(in fact ive deliberately obscured some). (I was reading The Photographer's Mind i think it was and got the idea). I think the most successful is photo one for mood.
I do agree the verticals in the St Peter's are a bit dodgy. I probably need to play with perspective correction in PS.
A few of ye have said 2 & 3 dont work? Any more specific feedback would be super! (in 2 id actually rather in in focus branch not be there....)
Once i get a few minutes I will try the recrop of the last one!

cheers

prospect

I like the 5th one the most.

I'd disagree with the other posters about cropping it square, I'd do the opposite and bring in the left edge so that the person was centred across the width.

I think that printed in a tall narrow format would be splendid.

FoxT

You asked for comment on #2 & #3.

#2 looks like you just accidentally.

For me #1 is good because the photo frames the lamp post. My eye is led in to the photo, to the lamp post, and I see the emptiness of the space - #1 triggers an emotional response in me, #2 does not. I am finding it hard to explain why. #2 looks too ...random,haphazard?

#3 is...OK...I suppose, it is in focus, the blue tint is nice enough, exposure is OK, the subject is off center which is appealing, and I think that technically it is good.
Part of the problem may be that it just does not fit at all with the other 4.

for me, #1, #4, #5 fit together - they have a similar theme (" the world is big, man is small", perhaps) #3 just doesn't have a place with them.

I hope that helps ,

-FoxT

superflyninja

here are two recrops

FoxT

both are lovely, I prefer the 1st one ( the more square one).

Why? I'd need to go into psychoanalysis to figure it out!

- FoxT

superflyninja

FoxT wrote: »

both are lovely, I prefer the 1st one ( the more square one).

Why? I'd need to go into psychoanalysis to figure it out!

- FoxT

lol thanks...for me i prefer the long version....
*dials Dr Fraiser Crane*

paulusdu

I'd agree with FoxT, i prefer the more cropped version, for no other reason than i just do