critique please?

obscure.individual · Jul 23, 2012

hello thar, i just joined this forum and i need real photographers to give me their opinions and critiques of what i think are my best B&W/colorsplash shots. here they are:

i used my iPad 3 to take and edit all of those shots, just so ya know.

KenC · Jul 24, 2012

Some pretty good stuff in there, but way too many to comment on all. I'll just pick one I like, the second one. The contrast on the leaf was handled well and it stands out from the background. I normally don't like this kind of severe vignette, but it seems to work here. I might try to back off on the vignette just a bit and crop some of the almost black area on the bottom. The last one would be my second choice.

obscure.individual · Jul 24, 2012

KenC said:
Some pretty good stuff in there, but way too many to comment on all. I'll just pick one I like, the second one. The contrast on the leaf was handled well and it stands out from the background. I normally don't like this kind of severe vignette, but it seems to work here. I might try to back off on the vignette just a bit and crop some of the almost black area on the bottom. The last one would be my second choice.

thank you! i actually made that vignette using a bunch of gradients that i positioned around the leaf so that it would stand out a lot. the last one was actually a photo that i took during the day, when it wasn't raining and the lighthouse wasn't on. just wondering, could you tell that the rain and spotlight are fake?

KenC · Jul 24, 2012

No, although I didn't enlarge it. The sky looks a little too dark, but my work monitor doesn't handle shadow detail well, so I'm not sure about it.

obscure.individual · Jul 24, 2012

KenC said:
No, although I didn't enlarge it. The sky looks a little too dark, but my work monitor doesn't handle shadow detail well, so I'm not sure about it.

well i tried to make it look as if the photo was taken at night, so of course it's dark.