Photo try, Criticism needed

[Skyline]

This is my first good try in digital photography... Hope you'll like it.

I gave it a title : Ashes to death

http://skynet.duallink.ca/photo1.jpg

[Warman]

There is nothing in the shot to catch the attention, some sort of eyecather would compose the puicture a lot better. Also maybe making it a little more sharp.

[Skyline]

I have it more sharp but i dont think it look better. With some photo the more real they are the less good they are. Like on TV if you look at a movie it will be a bit less sharp then a serie that is done with an HD Cam.

[gsmx2]

Not sure what it is--leaves going down a sewer drain or something?

That aside: You've got a bit of a rock on the right side that's doing nothing and an out-of-focus rock at the bottom right corner that is also purposeless.

But I am not sure if you cropped them out the picture would improve substancially.

Keep on trying.

gsm x2

[ryuwulf]

I agree with the previous posts. what am i looking at? Even then im not intrigued to find out. Nothing stands out for me take notice or catch my interest.

[Skyline]

Not sure what it is--leaves going down a sewer drain or something?

That aside: You've got a bit of a rock on the right side that's doing nothing and an out-of-focus rock at the bottom right corner that is also purposeless.

But I am not sure if you cropped them out the picture would improve substancially.

Keep on trying.

gsm x2

Thats what i want people to think of :) I like to do the kind of picture that people are not sure what it is, makes people think of it.

[gsmx2]

Thats what i want people to think of :) I like to do the kind of picture that people are not sure what it is, makes people think of it.

Then you've succeeded.

gsm x2

[Skyline]

Thats what i want people to think of :) I like to do the kind of picture that people are not sure what it is, makes people think of it.

Then you've succeeded.

gsm x2

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[Kell]

Good start. A bit blurred to the right, but I guess those who have come before me have said it all (although I don't think any amount of sharpenning would really make it better by any fair amount).

So I'll shoot at the comic relief, and point... at the frame. Yes, the black frame, with the signature. Why go through all the trouble to take a picture, frame it, and then fail to center the signature vertically? Because you see, that's what caught my eye when I looked at it first. Maybe irrelevant yes, but I just had to say it. :)

Cheers.

[Skyline]

Good start. A bit blurred to the right, but I guess those who have come before me have said it all (although I don't think any amount of sharpenning would really make it better by any fair amount).

So I'll shoot at the comic relief, and point... at the frame. Yes, the black frame, with the signature. Why go through all the trouble to take a picture, frame it, and then fail to center the signature vertically? Because you see, that's what caught my eye when I looked at it first. Maybe irrelevant yes, but I just had to say it. :)

Cheers.

That frame took me about 2 second of work and i didnt want to center the signature.

by the way thanks for the comment this will help me for my future photos

[Kell]

Not sure if I made myself clear, but I meant centered vertically, e.g., the signature is too close to the upper edge of the bottom black strip. This is being picky, so feel free to ignore me though.

One other thing, being gray the color most easily associated with ashes, I can't help feeling curious about a greyscale version of this photo, did you try assembling one? If you did, could you please post it? You probably didn't really want it to be b/w, but if you did try that approach, I'd like to see it. :)

[Skyline]

Not sure if I made myself clear, but I meant centered vertically, e.g., the signature is too close to the upper edge of the bottom black strip. This is being picky, so feel free to ignore me though.

One other thing, being gray the color most easily associated with ashes, I can't help feeling curious about a greyscale version of this photo, did you try assembling one? If you did, could you please post it? You probably didn't really want it to be b/w, but if you did try that approach, I'd like to see it. :)

And my point was not to center it vertically :) but oh well here is what you requested, and i centered the signature vertically too :D

I sharpened the photo a bit (it was a bit too blury in B/W)Â*.

But i got to tell you that im a person who love abstract photos, even abstract paints. :)

Anyway here is the photo in B/W

http://skynet.duallink.ca/photobw.jpg

[ijohnson]

That greyscale post made it more clear to me.

Everything is too orange. Try adjsting until the ashes are white, after all that is their color. The way it is now, it is hard to tell what I am looking at because the colors are tricking my eye.

Maybe I will like it more then.