A few outdoors shots

My self critique:

Generally not the most interesting subjects :) I was out on a walk day around Ironbridge and the Long Mynd, enjoy taking the camera with me and taking the odd photo. Wasn't set out to take specific shots, so this set is more experience for me than an amazing set :)

1. I like the contrast between the shadow waves in the ground and the light blades of grass. The tree in the background added a bit to the composition and I like this in B&W.

2. Wide angle shot and a bit of experimenting with film style / vintage look. I quite like the effect and the shot has a strange mood to it, almost surgical feel. The composition isn't great though, the crop on the right feels a bit awkward.

3. Just a pretty picture, I liked the swirly path and the background. Wish I had done this with a tripod and a smaller aperture to get more detail in. A bit boring though.

4. Just an experiment with B&W, I like the lights on the ground, the wide angle perspective on the clouds but it needs an amazing building/feature in it :)

5. Like the sharpness and the bridge as the focal point. Although I was happy with the PP, it just has a "seen it before" + clarity feel to it. It came out pretty sharp though and I like the colour of the canal vs. everything else.

6. Quite like how this came out. I think it's fairly well composed and framed with the tree. Quite happy with this one, like the contrast and the feel (pretty picture + spooky mood).


There are some more here if you fancy a gawk :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajyoung/sets/72157634126922919/
 
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I like the film effect on no.2 and no.5 is my favourite from them all but I would have got rid of the blue as I don't like it on the walls and windows in the top corners.

Like this:

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Hope you don't mind me having a quick play with your image :)
 
I like this set.
The thing that stood out at me when I saw number 1 was the gradiated effect. It looks like you've used a radial gradiated filter in lightroom, if so I think it's too strong (although the halo around the tree is interesting, imo it gets much too dark toward the edges).
I like the film style processing of number 5
 
vail3r said:
I like the film effect on no.2 and no.5 is my favourite from them all but I would have got rid of the blue as I don't like it on the walls and windows in the top corners.

Like this:

Hope you don't mind me having a quick play with your image :)
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Not at all, funny you should say that as I just added this hue to the photo before I uploaded it on the last review in Lightroom! :) I still kinda like it though :)
 
Zogger said:
I like this set.
The thing that stood out at me when I saw number 1 was the gradiated effect. It looks like you've used a radial gradiated filter in lightroom, if so I think it's too strong (although the halo around the tree is interesting, imo it gets much too dark toward the edges).
I like the film style processing of number 5
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Thanks!

Going to have a play with the graduated filter(s there are a couple ;) I like the glow on the tree, objective was to focus on it, but might be a bit 'unatural'.
 
Genoma said:
My self critique:

2. Wide angle shot and a bit of experimenting with film style / vintage look. I quite like the effect and the shot has a strange mood to it, almost surgical feel. The composition isn't great though, the crop on the right feels a bit awkward.
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This is the processing that a lot of people are using at the moment, and personally I think it ruins photos. I REALLY don't like it. I've no idea why it's become such a fad in the last year, but everywhere you look people are using it, from weddings to product photography. To me it feels like people are trying to hide something in the image by doing it. In this particular photo, personally I think the content of the photo is helped by tonality rather than washing it out as you've done. It also feels a bit crooked to me. With regards to the processing again, as a set it sticks out like a sore thumb due to being massively different.

I know it's a personal thing and I seem to be in a minority, but I really wish people wouldn't use that processing technique :D
 
Yes I can see what you mean about the tonality. I think the attraction is that it has a smooth quality that is present in real film shots but it's not something I would apply to every shot.. In this case overall I think it's a decent choice for this image.
 
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I'm not sure if I've still got any photos of this technique around, but my dad used to use a technique in the darkroom where he ran an acid rinse (or something, it was 30 years ago!) and I remember him talking to a fellow photographer and they mentioned the effect distressed the image. I think that's what's stuck in my mind. It's a photo in pain :D
 
ElDude, I agree that these have been abused, mostly I'm trying to learn different styles, we recently had a party in which I did a few like this and in B&W which suited the vintage theme of it. I think the abuse is largely attributed to instagram!

It was taken at 10mm, probably why it looks a bit odd :)
 
No, the image I like. For me personally, when there are a lot of textured surfaces in an image, I like to see tonality in it, whether it be black and white or colour.

As I say, I'm almost certainly in the minority when it comes to that processing style, but it just doesn't sit right with me. Why spend all that money on equipment, only to process it back to a style that could be done with an old 1970s rangefinder with a light leak :D

I'll have to have a look for the photos I'm thinking of to show you what I mean. Not sure we still have them after my parents divorced 20 years ago, but I've recently found about 900+ photos of all sorts of things, so I'll at least be scanning a mountain of them at the end of February when I'm off work for a fortnight :D
 
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