noob with a couple for c&c

[cajunbandmom]

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I have tried to resize these not sure why it is not taking when I put it here.
Thanks for looking and any help would be great...

 

[AnaBo]

Aside from number 4 being a bit dark compared to the others, they are pretty cohesive contrast wise.
Number 2 has an almost glow, is it a filter or just the quality of light?..

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Your B&W's need more oomph. Maybe puch the contrast a little.

#2 grabs me more than the others, but the composition is a little odd.
I think on this I would take more off the left side.

 

[cajunbandmom]

number 2 had the gaussian filter on it. Thanks for the comments and the crop Bitter

 

[sleist]

I agree with Bitter regarding his comment on the B&W not having enough punch and I like his edit - still too soft of course ...

I also think that they all seem to be lacking with respect to composition - as if they were the result of being cropped out of a larger scene, with your choice of subject location in the shot being limited as a result.

I would have kept #3 in color, punched up the contrast, and applied some unsharp mask. That might have made #3 my favorite - particularly if the blue of the sky was deepened enough in contrast to the white of the statue. Something like this maybe:

 

[cajunbandmom]

Like this?

 

[sleist]

I like it better than the B&W version. It's not that I don't like B&W (although most of my posts today seem to say otherwise ), it's just that the shots seem fuzzy.