Photo Critiqing Thread

[nwoods]

Timely photo. Looks like the bird missed crash landing in the food bowl by..."just that much".

[Jack5885]

Alright, I do not consider myself a good photographer, but here are the ones I've taken recently that I like the most. All are taken with a point and shoot Canon Powershot A530.

4 Peaks Road outside of Phoenix, AZ.



This photo is from Portugal. I was on a boat so it was difficult to get a stable photo.


Fountain at my school


View of Mt Wilson, CO. Near Telluride


A tree at my school:

Please tell me how to improve them!

[048642]

Jack5885,

I really like the fountain image, nicely done.


Sent from somewhere on Earth.

[Clark White]

I wen't out in the rain wanting to play around with some more artful photography to capture the feeling of the heavy rains we had here in town, but I'm not 100% happy or certain what I should have done differently?

I can't decide which one I like more, or if I need to do something differently? They are cropped down a fair bit because I had to shoot wide since I had to run around the car in 10sec I had with the self timer (camera was in the car for rain protection). Edit differently? Maybe a more moody color rather then B&W?




Ustadza says she loves this one, but it doesn't speak to me...what are your opinions?


And the same goes for this one; I like it but somehow it isn't speaking to me?


Thanks for any input!!!
Clark

[nwoods]

Clark, just as an experiment, can you clone out the little guy figure on the tank? It's totally drawing my eye, and shouldn't.

[Clark White]

Clark, just as an experiment, can you clone out the little guy figure on the tank? It's totally drawing my eye, and shouldn't.

I tried with the LR4 spot removal, but it isn't cutting it. I could do it in PS, but I currently don't have PS though hopefully I'll have it in the next few days again. I can see what you mean about it drawing your eye though, I keep looking at it rather then the photograph as a whole...rather ironic since he's the reason I decided to take that picture in the first place, go figure!

Clark

[nwoods]

Ustadza says she loves this one, but it doesn't speak to me...what are your opinions?


Thanks for any input!!!
Clark

Clark, I like this shot. I think the larger you can display it, the better it reads. When I first read this thread update, it was on my iphone, now I'm on my 27" monitor, and wish you had posted a larger size to your Smug account so that I could see it in X3 size :-)

To make it pop more, I think some manipulation could be really cool. I would show the branches in the foreground in color, and mask out the background in black and white. I am incredibly busy right now this week, but if you send me the originals, or post them up on Smug, I'd bet others would be willing to play with these last two images as discussed and see what can be done with them.

[Clark White]

I decided to go back and give a color version of these two a try. I think I like them better, but I'm not totally sold on the quality of color I ended up with?




For this one I took nwoods advice and tried to make everything B&W except the foreground branches...quite a tedious process with the limited masking ability in LR! I do like it though, I'll have to really bug my room mate about getting PS tonight so I can use it's better masking.


Clark

P.S. The copies of these last three in my smugmug are much larger, but these are the largest sizes I can link.

[nwoods]

P.S. The copies of these last three in my smugmug are much larger, but these are the largest sizes I can link.

Its easy to link larger versions, and ExPo's forum layout supports X2 size just fine. In Chrome or Firefox, right click on the image from Smug, and choose "Copy Image URL", then just paste it in ExPo between two [img] tags. The last digits of the URL represent the display size Smug will provide to your linked image. clarkwhite.smugmug.com/photos/i-prn5wcT/0/X2/i-prn5wcT-X2.jpg Your options are as follows:

S - Small
M - Medium
L - Large (what you've been using by default)
XL - Extra Large
X2 - Quite large
X3 - Gloriously Large
O - Original size that you upload to Smug

[Clark White]

Sweet! Learn something new every day! I had been going to sharing and get a link, which doesn't go that large. Thanks!

Clark