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I will edit in a detailed responce to BTP in a moment but - and I have a headache and acrashing computer at the moment - so let me be blunt - next time use the report button rather than backseat moderate - and then leave it at that! end this discussion now its getting away from the OP and his thread and gives a very poor view of the site and its members if the first post of a person here turns into some massive debate/rant/argument/spam.
Right now that is out of the way (please computer don't crash again!). Welcome to the site BTP! I do hope that you stick around and let us get to know you better and also let you know us better (we don't bite that often )
As for your work you have a very processed look to your images - in shots like the first its a style and feel that I don't really take to much especaily as I just feel that whilst the pose is interesting the high editing has given them a very strange look to their skin (the face looks ill and almost as if there are bloodspatters over that and one hand).
I do like your second shot though and the subtle curves in it - even to getting the shadows of the bolts in the front to follow the curves - its a good soft use of lighting and overall I do like it!
Third shot just does not click for me - at first I thought it was a duff shot madeup to look better though with you display above of lighting control I wonder more if it is what you did intend and its just that I don't like the end result - I just feel that so much detail and expression from the animal is being lost in the blackness.
Fourth shot feels very overprocessed to me and I get the feelng that you have edited a single shot and got a blown out sky - and thus you have edited the sky to a monotone cloud colour which shows no details (if you see just under the gutter on the left there is sky gap where the original sky is showing through and the bright reflections on the building in the background betray an originally brighter sky. Personally I feel that this shot would have worked better if you had been able to take two exposures - one for the sky and one for the foreground and then combined them into a single shot - that or gone back later in either the dawn or evening when the light would naturally have been softer and thus easier to expose for.
Fifth and sixth shots I think work well with your chosen editing methods and I do like them. They have a darkness to them but its not too dominating (a bit of a risk with the vignetting in the first as it can make the shot feel just that bit too dark - but the framing of it works I think). In the sixth I would crop out the left hand side and that other bike comming into view - its not needed and its a distraction otherwise = but to keep the composition as you have it this will mean removing from the right hand side an equal amount as well - otherwise the zoom in effect (either edited or shot as) will be lost I fee.
Right now that is out of the way (please computer don't crash again!). Welcome to the site BTP! I do hope that you stick around and let us get to know you better and also let you know us better (we don't bite that often )
As for your work you have a very processed look to your images - in shots like the first its a style and feel that I don't really take to much especaily as I just feel that whilst the pose is interesting the high editing has given them a very strange look to their skin (the face looks ill and almost as if there are bloodspatters over that and one hand).
I do like your second shot though and the subtle curves in it - even to getting the shadows of the bolts in the front to follow the curves - its a good soft use of lighting and overall I do like it!
Third shot just does not click for me - at first I thought it was a duff shot madeup to look better though with you display above of lighting control I wonder more if it is what you did intend and its just that I don't like the end result - I just feel that so much detail and expression from the animal is being lost in the blackness.
Fourth shot feels very overprocessed to me and I get the feelng that you have edited a single shot and got a blown out sky - and thus you have edited the sky to a monotone cloud colour which shows no details (if you see just under the gutter on the left there is sky gap where the original sky is showing through and the bright reflections on the building in the background betray an originally brighter sky. Personally I feel that this shot would have worked better if you had been able to take two exposures - one for the sky and one for the foreground and then combined them into a single shot - that or gone back later in either the dawn or evening when the light would naturally have been softer and thus easier to expose for.
Fifth and sixth shots I think work well with your chosen editing methods and I do like them. They have a darkness to them but its not too dominating (a bit of a risk with the vignetting in the first as it can make the shot feel just that bit too dark - but the framing of it works I think). In the sixth I would crop out the left hand side and that other bike comming into view - its not needed and its a distraction otherwise = but to keep the composition as you have it this will mean removing from the right hand side an equal amount as well - otherwise the zoom in effect (either edited or shot as) will be lost I fee.
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