Two shots; new glass... would really appreciate C&C

Hi! I got to get out and play with some new glass this weekend. Please give me your thoughts!

#1: "lonely" - shot at Coney Island over the weekend. I was trying to capture a feeling of "not much going on here." Minimal editing: slight sharpening, curves, and lowered saturation.

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Nice creative work. Horizon is #1 is a neither slanted enough to make a statement and look deliberate, nor straight enough to look straight. Also wonder if composing with a person standing just in front of the building would have made it generally easier to discern them and the picture less consciously effort. For some reason, I keep imagining an arm reaching up to touch or rest on the foreground drum/bin, but please ignore me/that.

#2 works well - particularly like the additional space (well past Rule of Thirds placement) on the right... one case where breaking the rules feels right. Appropriately bleak and lonely for such a miserable pastime ;-P.

Cheers, Tony

I don't usually like shots like no. 2 but this one works and got me to look more than once. Good work!

tonydee, thanks for the comments. I see what you mean about the horizon-- it's especially apparent looking at the garbage can. I don't quite understand what you mean about the person standing in front of the building (FWIW it's a gazebo). Do you mean you think it might have been better without the person there? I thought about that, but cropping out the person seemed to hurt the composition. Maybe if he weren't there at all...

Funny on #2. He doesn't smoke, and stole mine for a picture. I agree it's a miserable habit

Re composition, was meaning that if you'd moved a little bit more around to the right, then it could cover the right third of the gazebo's "front" and create a gap (for sky) between the person and the gazebo. The way it is now I feel the person and gazebo are kind of competing for resolution in the viewer's mind, largely due to them overlapping. Hope that's clearer. Feel free to disagree/ignore though. Cheers, Tony

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Re composition, was meaning that if you'd moved a little bit more around to the right, then it could cover the right third of the gazebo's "front" and create a gap (for sky) between the person and the gazebo. The way it is now I feel the person and gazebo are kind of competing for resolution in the viewer's mind, largely due to them overlapping. Hope that's clearer. Feel free to disagree/ignore though. Cheers, Tony

Ah, yes I see what you mean! Thanks

The 2nd shot is really nice. Inspiring. Perhaps the 1st shot is misaligned.. looks like the trash can is leaning left slightly. easy to fix just rotate arbritary. I do like the effects on the 2nd. is it hard to do? i know you explained how to do it.. maybe you can elaborate a little more? awesome!

Here's the edit straightening #1 above. I did it arbitrarily, using rulers, instead of lens correction so I could keep the original in 16-bit TIFF format.

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I do like number #2, not a fan of number1.

Nice shots, I think #1 is very good..also like the B/W.