Holiday photos C&C please

[blueofspirit]

Recently did a couple trips around Asia and took some photos along the way. C&C welcome

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5 - my first real attempt at manual focus since the camera AF kept on focusing on the banana leaf behind the spider and web

 

[matfoster]

sky on #4 is awesome.

 

[blueofspirit]

sky on #4 is awesome.

Thanks. What about the other ones?

 

[Prometheus]

I like #4, except the container in the bottom right and the unevenly bright lights on the right draw my attention away from the rest of the photo. A 10:8 crop would look great, with everything cropped off the right side instead of a center crop.

 

[matfoster]

#2 is ok - tricky to control the highlights with those flowers,
#3 is interesting, but i can't distinguish what is in the water with the man. bit dark on my screen.
#1 the composition is poor. the railings in the background.
#5 the spider's too far away, the big palm plant in the background is distracting.

 

[blueofspirit]

#3 is interesting, but i can't distinguish what is in the water with the man. bit dark on my screen.

It's a child in the water. I metered off the sky so that the sky would be bright and everything else would be silhouetted. Would there be a better way to do this?

#1 the composition is poor. the railings in the background.

Agree - would you say the rest of the photo was interesting? I liked the colors and wanted to get the front few with bokeh in the back.. I could probably go back there and reshoot this one

#5 the spider's too far away, the big palm plant in the background is distracting.

Center crop on the spider? The web was off the side of a path at a weird angle and I couldn't physically get any closer. My 24-70 lens wouldn't go any closer either

Would you say it would have been better to get the whole web in focus too? Right now only the right hand side is in focus because of the angle - just for future reference.

 

[blueofspirit]

#3 is interesting, but i can't distinguish what is in the water with the man. bit dark on my screen.

It's a child in the water. I metered off the sky so that the sky would be bright and everything else would be silhouetted. Would there be a better way to do this?

#1 the composition is poor. the railings in the background.

Agree - am still working on thinking composing..would you say the rest of the photo was interesting? I liked the colors and wanted to get the front few with bokeh in the back.. I could probably go back there and reshoot this one

#5 the spider's too far away, the big palm plant in the background is distracting.

Center crop on the spider? The web was off the side of a path at a weird angle and I couldn't physically get any closer. My 24-70 lens wouldn't go any closer either

Would you say it would have been better to get the whole web in focus too? Right now only the right hand side is in focus because of the angle - just for future reference.