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Linda, Rajat. Thanks for stopping by.

Regards Tony

Ok, The trucks in the background may be a distraction but this is a street shot and as such cannot always be staged to perfection. To crop the top half of the shot off may I feel lose the context of which the shot was taken. You have captured a moment in time admirably.

Regards. Tony

A little PS fun and my beloved grandaughter. Thanks for looking.

Regards Tony

I like it a lot, the title on the photo is great, he is a 'Geezer' alright, a real 'Top Johnnie'!! The Dof is good making the 'Geezer' really stand out against the background. The Bollard to the right of the geezer could be cloned out but then again is that not what one would expect to see in a street shot? Exposure I think is spot on, a stop faster and you may have caught more detail in the shirt but probably would have lost the contrast, it might have been too flat. Great Street Shot.

Regards Tony.

This is a great capture, wonderful colours and superbly sharp. I also like the indifference of attitude between the woman and the boy.

Regards

Tony

This church dates from the saxon times. Struggling to get the colours

right . Any veiws???

Many thanks for the comments. Rajat, I don't know where the bluish cast comes from. I did saturate the sky slightly but hat was done in a different layer so should not have affected the rest of the shot. I had not noticed it untill I saw your tweak. I have several shots of this church. I will upload one which better shows the roof.

Regards

Tony

I like it!! Was she aware of you taking the shot?

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Tony

Great shot !!! The guy in the yellow shirt also plays a part in this image. The framing of the guys in the foreground is cool .Well done!!!

Regards Tony

This is a different treatment of a shot I posted before.The crop is the

suggestion of Rajat Poddar a PN member which I think makes for a

better composition.

Any thoughts or comments? Regards Tony

Thanks for stopping by and taking time to comment. I quite like the crop you have added here, it certainly acentuates the fact that the church is the subject matter and not the bushes or the Lych gate in the foreground. This was shot at 12mm which is the reason for the perspective distortion. Unfortunately my PS skills don't extend to perspective correction at the moment. I did have a tutorial on this somewhere and I need to look it up. I was disappointed with the DOF here. I focussed on the gate area with an aperture of f20. At 12mm I hoped that would give me a good DOF to render the church sharp but it wasn't to be. Saturation? I am never certain how much to push the saturation. I sometimes like the desaturated approach as can be seen on other shots in my portfolio. I might try it with this shot. I am going to go back and shoot this again from a higher veiw point. The surrounding country side is flat around the church so I am planning to shoot with the tripod on the roof of my car. This should give a better veiw of the grass and the grave stones which can hardly be seen here.

Thanks again for your comments.

Regards

Tony

Any thoughts on this shot? Best veiwed larger.

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Tony

Peter,Dan and Jim.

Many thanks for taking the time out to comment on this shot. It was quite busy around the village green and pond on this day and this shot was grabbed during the few seconds that people and vehicles were momentarily out of shot.

Again ,Many Thanks.

Regards

Tony

Superb !

Regards Tony

I see you have a host of 3/3 ratings for this shot yet none of those brave souls have come forward to offer advice as to why they consider this worthy of such ratings. Well here are my thoughts right or wrong I hope they help.

The tilt on the horizon does not work for me here. I believe this would look much more pleasing if the horizon was horizontal. There are parts of the sky where the detail is lost due to the matrix or centre weighted metering. An ND grad filter might have helped here or expose for the sky and adjust in PS. The colors in the forground are bland as there is no contrast probably due to the lighting conditions at the time of day you shot this.The cure... shoot this scene at sunrise, compose with straight horizon and using the thirds principal. Post process as you see fit and you should come up with a good shot.

I hope this helps

Regards Tony

Love it!!!

I like the blue of the sky complementing the blue of the camper. the saturation is just right.The lines of the street and beech suggest the direction for the camper to travel. A great shot of an iconic vehicle. well done.

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Tony

I like this shot a lot.

Regards

Tony

Many thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment on my shot. Far from being 'pissed' I am happy to receive your honest and frank critism. You are right about the timing. I was out with my wife and while she was looking around the antique centre nearby, i took a strole with the camera. Time was about mid day hence the strong light from the south. This scene was shot from a bridge which is at the head of the navigable part of the River Crouch. To the right of this mill( out of shot ) are the lock gates where the tidal section of the river meets the fresh water part. As you state it was low tide so no water.Essentially this shot for me was about a photo shop excercise. The title 'skeetex' refers to a huge banner which is stretched across the lower part of the mill ruining the scene. I cloned this out,took ages.Also The sky was shot in Northampton about 200 miles away and I experimented with saturation, toning and contrast.I dont know how to do it or I would upload the original shot here. Ratings? Well John, see my bio. Its great to get high ratings for a temporary fix. Low ratings are a bit of a downer but the feeling soon passes. The essence of the basis for improving my photo skills has to be the constructive critism from my friends and peers here on PN. By you taking the time to stop by and comment has confirmed to me that there is in this shot some worth and potential. It has forced me to realise that I need to get my butt out of bed and re shoot this early morning when the light will be from over my shoulder and with much more contrast.Also time this with high water which i will need to plan on the calender.John,none of this would have occured to me without you taking the time out to comment on this shot and I thank you again for this. A string of 6-6s and I would have gone away quite falsely a happy but more importantly a none the wiser man.When I eventually shoot this again I will take the time to email you the shot and hopefully you may see an improvement.

John again, many thanks.

Regards

Tony

Its a pleasure to comment on your first critique submission. Believe me there are better qualified peope on PN than me but here are my thoughts. I like a lot the angle of the shot. I woud have cropped tight to the first high pile lh side and cropped about half of the sky . It will be interesting to see what others think. A great shot all the same.I have tried to upload an example but don't seem to be able.

Best Regards

Tony