some of my pictures, I just want some feedback that doesn't come from my friends

[mauvais]

There's truth in them hills, you know! What I think he means is that light is the photo, and if you're having to seek help understanding or applying it then you're in big trouble. You've got to figure it out yourself - look through books and other people's work - otherwise you've cocked up the fundamentals.

in fact I'll go so far as to say alot on Urb don't do photography per se...they capture-images

Yeah, me included, and that's a hurdle to get over, if indeed you can.

 

[boskysquelch]

umm, well ok then

right then YOU...this is what YOU do

You get magazines, books, television programmes, films...you get instances in your own vision...you look around you conciously...you look at things about you subconciously...you write notes down...you draw little maps in you head...you draw sketches on pieces of paper..map the light..where it comes from..how it lands...where it trasvels to...throught what and when...you lie on you back in you favorite or found place of interesting light...you walk around in the day...look at the night...you cup you hands to your eyes and look at the World blinkiered...you listen to other describing light...you ask what the light was like when you hear of an events...to look one way and then the other to compare and contrast...and doing all this and living with your gift of sight you observe and learn how light works...where it comes from...how you think you may replicate it...how you are able to capture it with your choice of medium to show and share with others(yep_yep...memories ARE included on this one)...get two L-shaped pieces of card and consider the cropping of a scene...used your thumb and fingers to do the same...or jus one hand cupped like looking through a tube...look at light you don't like...look at light you HATE...look at light you adore and try and hold on to the very thought of it alone...put in any where in your World...find it where you need it...create from it when you don't want to...when you don't neeed to.

And stuuuuuffff

 

[looneykat12]

thanks

 

[looneykat12]

I just added a buch more pictures, so I'd like it if you would comment on the new ones also.

 

[alef]

The first photo (tight crop of a girl's face) is much more interesting than the others -- I'll trade a single portrait for a thousand still lifes of flowers any day.

The image of the cemetery with the hanging tree branches made me stop and look a tad longer. My suggestion here would be to focus on the pattern of the gravestones and try to cut out anything else, it's too cluttered and lacking in composition at the moment.

I rather like the unusual shot (presumably a self-portrait?) in the mirror of just your legs and arm. Though there's no lighting here and the colours are flat, so I'd be tempted to turn the picture b+w and play with the levels.

Mainly, though, I'd recommend you try to find a specific theme. Randomly grouping photos you like doesn't work. Specifically unite them into small collections and/or add some comments to give them more meaning and context.

 

[e19896]

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Are the ones i like very much..

 

[Auntie P]

I think you already have an eye for composition and there is a sense of a 'style' emerging in your images. True, some of them could do with a bit more contrast, clarity or cropping, but keep taking them. Take lots. Learn from your own work. And most of all, enjoy it.

 

[looneykat12]

thanks

 

[Descartes]

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I feel this has huge potential, the symettry, the equal spacing of the tomb stones gives lines in every direction. A lower view point and move away from the vegitation... the greenery only breaks up the lines and detracts from the clean image.

The camera placed on a tomb stone or looking along the side of the line. A polariser would create a gradient of the sky line and providing greater contrast between the white and blue.

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I feel the step should not be in the shot and moved over to the right to allow the path to appear from the left lower corner and move away to the left and giving more space on the right hand side. Creating a movement both into and away from the space on the right.

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A tighter crop around the red lamp.. the number of lamps detracts from the ominous feel thar could be achieved..... the block and red lamp, cut out the two right hand over heads and leave three lamps.. it then gives the impression that they are watching.. keep the triangle on the left as this draws the eye into the darkness of the lamp housing...

More later, but it is all subjective.