critique request (edited 18 May 04) updated pic

[lonnycaughron]

comments/suggestions would be appreciated. just trying to get better at photography.

http://www.pbase.com/image/29059989.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/29060000.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/29059994.jpg

thanks

lonny

[vvizard]

I really like your first shot. The second is clearly skewed, and should probably be corrected in a photo-editor.

[LightHunter]

the 2nd should be perfectly symmetrical. Postprocessing in PS or going back and redo the shoot.

[lonnycaughron]

i finally had time to straighten the pic from the original file. Is this better.

http://www.pbase.com/image/29132838.jpg

thanks lonny

[LightHunter]

YES but I would crop the top to have less green. This would draw the look through the fountain and not towards the top of the image.


i finally had time to straighten the pic from the original file. Is this better.
thanks lonny

[msol]

Hi Lonny,

Here are my amateur thoughts on some of your pictures. I hope it makes sense.

I like the subject of #1. But I am afraid the background trees (that you see throught the statue's "arc") interfere too much with the statue. Since thee is a pool on the right, what would have happened if you would have stepped a couple of meters to your forward-left? Would you then have had a clear blueish background? Also you might have gone a little closer and just slightly towards the pool. That would probably have shifted the trees out of the view? To improve the current pic, crop of the bottom and left to remove the circle-"things" (don't know the name) and the tree and flowers on the left.

For #2 (the straigthened one is definitely better) I would apply a lot of sharpening. I think that would make it really stand out. You might also consider to crop of the bottom green part (not sure whether it is an improvement).