richard_milner2

Very eye catching. It might print up well in B&W because of the strongly graphical look.

Very characterful.

 

Crop out the man facing out of the right edge of the picture. This will balance the composition and focus attention on the visual relationship between the waiter and the two seated customers.

I am not worried about the background detail but the balustrade's end-post in the foreground is obtrusive.

 

The colours are a bit funny.

I agree with the previous comment. On the plus side, the shadows in the low foreground help to concentrate attention on the buildings and statue.

 

As you live in Napoli, you can easily go back, so good luck!

There is no main element to fasten the eye on. However, the infra-red effect is very good.

I find the tree right in the middle, behind the cannon barrel, very intrusive. If you could have moved to your right and angled the camera more to the left, it would have given some separation between the cannon and the tree trunk.

 

Other than that it is a good picture.

I like this picture. I like the colours and the way the streaks of cloud contradict the lines of the building. However I feel it is slightly unbalanaced and might work better if you included more on the left. The building seems too massy there and needs a bit of space to breathe. Just my opinion.

It is nicely framed by the pine branches.

 

A vertical framing would also be interesting as the still water allows a clear reflection. You would want to move the lower pine branch out of the way, of course.

I like this shot. Old trees can be very interesting subjects.

 

Criticism: There is too much light in the upper right quadrant and you have lost some detail from the log texture there. Presumably you had to shoot into the light. Closing down a couple of stops and using fill-flash to bring the main subject back may be worth trying.

 

Suggestion: The colour palette is muted. Try changing the scan to black and white and see how it works like that.

I think it would benefit from experimenting with crops at the top and bottom. The sky is featureless and the immediate foreground is a bit untidy. Try HDTV and panoramic crops.

There seems to be some flare or light strike in the left half of the shot. Is there anything you could do about that in Photoshop?

A very characterful Japanese scene. The foreground is a bit messy and adds nothing. Try cropping closer to the tree roots on the bottom. You might also try a panoramic crop (that is, crop down to the middle 1/3rd of the shot, and concentrate on the lanterns.)

A good record shot. Nothing special in terms of composition but the sky has some features and the little people help show off the size of the temple. You will remember that visit for years when you look at this again.

I think there is too much nothing. For me it would have worked better if you put the gate closer to the middle of the picture. (Rule of 3rds - it's nearly heresy to mention it.)

 

This kind of shot could work well if you got behind the gate, looking through it into the mist.

Good use of the fog to create an almost abstract image. I am not sure about the title, though. Is the photo supposed to be humourous? I think it works better as an image in its own right.

Yes I agree, including the roof led to a big area of white, over-exposure.

 

This was my first roll experimenting with the use of an Orange filter for IR film. Experience showed that the Orange filter often leads to over-exposure because so much visible light is let through as well as the IR.

 

The results would probably have been better with a Red filter but that would have required a tripod, which you are not allowed to use in some situations. I have some other Orange filtered shots which I should post for comparison.

Thank you for your kind praise.

 

It's small because I'm not very good (systematic) at scanning and uploading my pictures. One day if I get the time, or better equipment, I may be able to scan things better.

I increase the brightness in Photoshop because the picture looks better to me that way. I don't know that it is correct.

 

The problem with editing pictures on screen is that the results are very dependent on other factors such as the screen gamma setting and ambient lighting. I certainly do not try to control these professionally.

 

To be honest, my main motive in posting pictures is to get comments on the composition. I don't believe the cheapo scanner and my low digital manipulation skills do justice to the original photo's qualities in other respects.

I like this because of the strong colours. You might try the shot in vertical (portrait) format to include more of the second lily, and reduce the amount of background.

 

Another thing to try is reducing the depth of field to blur the background more. Unfortunately that also makes it harder to get the flowers in full focus, but it would be worth trying to see the effect.

The angle is fine. The shot is eye-cathcing as a thumbnail. Personally I don't find the background distracting because it is a fairly neutral colour and pattern compared to the subject.

It works well cropped to square format.

I like the splash of colour of the flag against the dark cloud.

 

The tower is leaning slightly and that detracts from the image. Try a crop and rotate to make the tower vertical.

There is something about it I like.

 

Try cropping about half of the foreground off. There is nothing interesting in it, and you can get the boy onto the intersection of the thirds.

I think a vertical framing would emphasise the height of the goat up the mountain. I feel there is too much area to the left. Nevertheless it is a very nice shot.

I like it very much.

 

At first sight of the thumbnail version, I thought it was a montage showing an asteroid moving through a field of stars. This drew my eye.

 

Then I looked at the larger version. The paler streaks moving from bottom left to top right help a great deal to add interest to the image and the ice texture is lovely.

 

I think this subject deserves several shots.

 

If you took it at a different angle, perhaps you would get more sparkle of light reflecting off the ice particles.

 

You might also try to have the rock in the upper left 3rd of the shot, and give the pale streaks more image area.

 

Of course you need to wait for next winter.