New:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3512584480/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3512583450/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3512582768/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3512581504/

Revisit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3488170468/ (original)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3512580850/

 

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I really like Going Up.


For your revisit, I prefer the color version. But I personally rarely like black and white shots.

 

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I would love #2 if the horizon was straight.


#1 is pretty cool with the contrasting colors.


I'm not sure I like the revisited in B&W, but it does make the paint on the side of the dumpster stand out more.

 

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#1 I love #1.
#2 I like the composition of 2 alot, but I don't care for the grainy sky.
#4 I love everything about this one, the contrast, the composition, the sharpness, etc.
You have deff gotten better

 

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For #2, I was using a new wide angle lens (Sigma 10-20mm). Don't have the hang of composing to account for the distortion yet. I do want to mix the sky though.

I don't really like the revisit much either. The colors just seem off in the original. The area is lit up by very yellow lights at night. Might try just re-shooting it completely during the day...

PS Anyone know a way to upload a new version of a picture on flickr besides uploading it and deleting the old one?

Edit: Spelling

 

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You can't compose the distortion of a wide angle away. The best you can do is even out the distortion between the foreground and the background really. Also, I think PS has some filter to compansate for the barrel look that comes with the territory


As I mentioned earlyer though, wide angle for architecture is not the best choice :>


As for the sky, I agree with Kash. It look unatural and not not were good in my opinon.


to sum up:


#1 I like it, the light in the bottom left corner is a bit distracting, might wanna try your hand at cloing it away. Other then that, great composition, nice capture of the moment and the clouds look really nice.

I don't know if it would be an improvement, but it might be fun to see the same shot with a longer shuttertime, so you could see the thingy move

Also, there's something weird with the colors, did you tonemap it?


#2 The composition of this is... well to put it frankly.. kinda sloppy :> I looks to me like a very touristish point and shoot image. I might have tried to move a bit more to the left of the statue, so that the spire of the building was more to the right of the image, that way you'd have more balance, also I think you've included too much of the base of the statue, see that bottom left corner where you got some of the lowest part of the base, which makes for a distracting colorchange, that should (imo) be cropped away.

As I mentioned, I don't like the effect on the sky, I've never seen a sky like that


#3 This is a very good picture, and I really like it. it's well composed, and you've done exactly what I was talking about in #2, you've composed it such that the background element (the thingy with the flowers) is not centered, and thus brings balance to the picture. Very well done


#4 Lovely photo, the dog might be slightly too centered for my taste, but that is a matter of preferance, nothing else Good strong lines, well exposed just very nice.


All in all I have to agree with Kash, you're rapidly improving, but please lay off the weird skies :>

 

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