Kinderdijk

erinkay · Feb 26, 2014

Hello all.

I am new to the photo forum and excited to join in! I was in the Netherlands recently & got some photos of windmills in the most beautiful pre-sunset light. I feel like I often am unsure of what edits I should make in photoshop to improve my pictures. I'd love opinions on what editing you would do & also just on the photographs themselves, as I am still an amateur. But these are a few of my favorite shots from the bunch.

Thanks for your critiques!

Judobreaker · Feb 26, 2014

Wewt! Kinderdijk!
That's like 5km from my house!

erinkay · Feb 27, 2014

Critiques? Anyone?

timor · Feb 27, 2014

Judobreaker said:
Wewt! Kinderdijk!
That's like 5km from my house!

Ha ! Where are your photos of that windmills ? :lol:

timor · Feb 27, 2014

erinkay said:
Critiques? Anyone?

#2 is my pick. I like pictures with some magic in it. Magic is here, however composition maybe arguable.
#1 Nice landscape, level the horizon and it will be fine.
#3 I don't feel the same you feel in that view.
#4 Not bad, I just don't like the house roof sticking from the bottom edge. It doesn't help at all. But I know, it was there.

EOV · Feb 28, 2014

#3 is pretty and nice but I wouldn't know what it was without the context if the other shots. Number 2 is also my pick.

Judobreaker · Feb 28, 2014

timor said:
Judobreaker said:

Wewt! Kinderdijk!
That's like 5km from my house!

Click to expand...

Ha ! Where are your photos of that windmills ?

Here: Reinier van Antwerpen - Kinderdijk, testing out the Sigma 12-24 f/4.5-5.6 EX DG

This was at the start of this month.

I'll probably go again soon for a test-run with my new fisheye. ^^

timor · Feb 28, 2014

Judobreaker said:
timor said:

Judobreaker said:

Wewt! Kinderdijk!
That's like 5km from my house!

Click to expand...

Ha ! Where are your photos of that windmills ?

Click to expand...

Here: Reinier van Antwerpen - Kinderdijk, testing out the Sigma 12-24 f/4.5-5.6 EX DG

This was at the start of this month.
I'll probably go again soon for a test-run with my new fisheye. ^^

Nice, but I am waiting for the fisheye action. That will be more interesting.

Judobreaker · Feb 28, 2014

I think so yes. ^^
If the weather clears up a bit I might go this sunday.

71M · Feb 28, 2014

Erin,
IMG_3414: I like that picture, you can cool the strong highlight of the back lit scene there using a 'Levels' slider-type tool if you have one in your photo editing software. Reducing the 'output' value of the highlights from 255 down to, say, about 235 might improve the look of that for you.

IMG_3394 could maybe use a slight boost in colour saturation; it really depends on how you want it to look, the colour saturation looks quite natural to me, as shown here.

Judobreaker · Mar 5, 2014

timor said:
Judobreaker said:

timor said:

Ha ! Where are your photos of that windmills ?

Click to expand...

Here: Reinier van Antwerpen - Kinderdijk, testing out the Sigma 12-24 f/4.5-5.6 EX DG

This was at the start of this month.
I'll probably go again soon for a test-run with my new fisheye. ^^

Click to expand...

Nice, but I am waiting for the fisheye action. That will be more interesting.

Here you go: http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/landscape-cityscape/353742-kinderdijk.html

timor · Mar 5, 2014

Thanks for link.
Nice, clean pictures, but too "official" for me. I though, that with such a short lens you will get real close and pull some spectacular space bending effects from that glass. #2 and 6 are close to it.