My pics. old and new

jonneymendoza

jonneymendoza

jonneymendoza

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It's hard to compare when there's such a range of genres IMO. I.e. it's hard to compare a landscape with a portrait from a development perspective...

The 1st and 5th seems to show improvement though. The 1st is good subject, but shadows and stuff are annoying. The latter, lighting and leading lines seems to have worked better.

kd
 
Feel like the last one has a bit too much contrast, whites are over exposed which loses the detail from the clouds and especially the main focus point of the cathedral, it has a nice composition though.
 
1 - I'd personally crop out the entire bottom of that photo as its massively underexposed with no shadow detail present at all. Keeps pulling my eyes down to it, when they should be fixed on the poster of the guy, which I assume is the focal point? Processing however looks fine

2 - I'd crop the right hand side so it matches the left and if you can, try and include the jacket on the floor as well that has been cropped in half. Watch how much constrast you apply to your images as well mate as your whites appear to be close to clipping

3 - Nice pop on this photo, but again be wary of that contrast slider as the whites again are about to clip. Also I find the composition a tad "marmite" on this one as the pigeon is looking the opposite way to how the thirds compo should have been. A closer crop with a rule of thirds that includes more on the LEFT than right would improve this photo to a great standard imo.

4 - Image not available supposedly, can't critique

5 - Great composition and I love the reflection, but there is WAY too much contrast being used on this image to the point where you are destroying the low and mid tones whilst clipping the highlights in an effort to boost colour. If you really can't level out the colour on this one, I'd do a low contrast B&W conversion on it and see how that looks. Otherwise though, great image.


Overall, I'd like to see you start using more natural processing mate as I feel that it might make you back off that contrast slider a tad. Shoot in neutral RAW and do minimal processing on some shots and see how you feel. The subject matter should speak volumes about the photo, not how bright and vibrant the colours are.
 
No worries mate. If you need anything else having a second set of eyes to look over, just give me a shout.
 
Had an epic photo walk yesterday around london.

From liverpool street to borough market.

Then after stuffing myself with lots of food and drink, i walked all the way to big ben through southbank and catched the underground to Hyde park corner where i chilled and relaxed and laid down for about an hour in hyde park(HTC One X phone battery died after only 5+hours. hardly used it. going to buy a S4 soon.).

Took more shots there and then quickly went to oxford street to buy missus something in selfridges. i looked at some camera gear their particularly the billingham bags and then after i took a bus down to china town and had dinner there with the missus :) It was now around 10pm so we decided to head home.

All and all it was an epic day. i was carrying my 5d3 with a 16-35, 70-200 and my 600 EX flash and it did not kill my shoulders at all thanks to this bag

http://fstopgear.com/product/mountain/loka#.UeJ1ao3Oto8

That bag is brilliant and keeps your camera gear secure and comfy all day.

I will post some pics to show u a bit on how great the AF really is on this camera as half of my shots where taken when i wasnt looking through the viewfinder at all and i was gobsmacked that most of them came IN-FOCUS!
 
#5 looks absolutely fine for me. Yes it's a little bit blown but you're not losing any significant detail so who cares.

It looks like you took it at standing height. I would have probably crouched to take that shot, and maybe tilt back a tiny bit to get less of the drab pavement and more of the sky/glass and to exaggerate the lines.
 
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