First Post: B+W Graffiti and Landscape

Here are several shots I've taken with my Sony w120, I'm quite impressed with its quality for the price. I've grown quite fond of monotone photography as of late and will be purchasing a DSLR in the next couple weeks C+C very much appreciated.

I think the indoor grafitti shots are great. Fantastic use of available lighting, interesting angles, and the darkness of the images adds to the atmosphere a lot.

However, I don't think the success of the dark printing carries over into the outdoor shots. The street scene in particular is way too dark for my tastes. Same goes for the bridge scene - you're clipping lots of blacks and losing lots of fine detail.

The first 3 are the success stories of this collection imo.

I know you don't have Image Editing OK enabled, so I hope you don't mind if I ran the bridge shot through Photoshop really quickly to give you an idea of the detail I feel is lacking in the image.

If you are not cool with me messing with your originals, then just say so and I will remove the image from my post.

Just for reference, I think the bridge shot would be more successful if rendered something closer to this

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I could've sworn I marked Image Editing OK. But it is so no worries. I do like the amount of detail that you brought forward in it, it gives the picture a lot more. I think I'm gonna mess around with the street scene a little more today see if I can work out some more detail and a larger gradient of shades.

The graffiti shots were outdoors underneath a Deck of a restaraunt on the beach, I found the lighting down there to be a great natural light and very intriguing with it coming through the slats like that.

The graffiti would have been a lot stronger with out the off level tilt. They are detailed well and dont need any "help". I think it may be worth the re shoot, but let the subject tell its own story.