Fun day at Valley Forge (C&C please)

[TooSwelly]

So, three pictures. Did about 3 minutes each on the post processing of em. Tips, comment, criticism all welcome.

#1 Still using the stock lens on my t3i. Not to bad, but obviously not the greatest. Tried to crop it best I could

#2 Thought this one was a cool photo, I know it's a snapshot at most, but it just looked different.

#3 Out of the numerous photos I took today, this one by far is my personal favorite.

Oh and while I may have you here. How is the canon Nifty Fifty? I here so much about it that I figured a hundred and twenty dollars can't be wrong for that lens.

 

[marmots]

#1 is pretty good, thought the shadows could be brought up, and the corner shouldn't have been clipped off
the tree at the top is a little distracting, but over all its not bad
what i think would have been nice is getting further back, and having the path lead to the house
#2 i agree with what you said
#3 very flat, looks like you tried to use brightness, instead of exposure, or whatever your software allows, and it kills the image

 

[TooSwelly]

#1 is pretty good, thought the shadows could be brought up, and the corner shouldn't have been clipped off
the tree at the top is a little distracting, but over all its not bad
what i think would have been nice is getting further back, and having the path lead to the house
#2 i agree with what you said
#3 very flat, looks like you tried to use brightness, instead of exposure, or whatever your software allows, and it kills the image

I do see what you mean. Are you directly talking about the grass at the bottom? Now that I look at it more. I feel as if I should just crop the bottom out aswell.

 

[marmots]

a quick touch up

the grass was too far gone to fix

 

[TooSwelly]

Does look much better. Thanks!

 

[TooSwelly]

No more?! Pity self bump

 

[markv20]

#1 why did you crop off the upper left of the building? Image looks like it was cropped too tight. High grass in the foreground is distracting.

#2 Like you said, its just a snapshot.

#3 Bright white background is distracting. It looks like something went wrong when you edited the image, im not sure what you did.

 

[marmots]

. It looks like something went wrong when you edited the image, im not sure what you did.

yeah... it was too far gone, but i gave it a shot