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[simo110]

Hello everybody!
I've got some photos I've been saving on my laptop, and now I wanna share em with you.

PS: all of them were taken with a point & shoot camera

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This is the famous Grotte d'Hercule in North Morocco, I know I didn't get it all in frame, that's too bad, but It looks good though


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[simo110]

30 views but no single comment..??
Come oon..u gotta be kidding me

 

[rateeg]

yea we're kidding.

 

[simo110]

Really?! why is that?? =P
This is not funny at all

 

[Robin Usagani]

the only one tha hat an interesting subject is #3 but the photo is horrible. Blown water, tilted horizon, white sky. You either need to zoom in to your subject, or do HDR. Turning on the flash may help a little too.

 

[bazooka]

Your first two pics are over 100MB.... it took me about 20 seconds to load the page and I'm on a really freaking fast corporate connection.

#3 is somewhat interesting, with the funky natural framing, but it's overexposed, blowing out white in the water... I've never actually seen that. The sky is pure white. The subject (the guys on the rocks) are quite small and aren't doing anything interesting.

The other images lack subject. They're just cluttered landscapes with no clear purpose. What are you trying to communicate? Have you given these pictures C&C? I'd be interested in seeing how you critique them.

 

[arcooke]

I'll bite, but it's going to hurt.

For the most part, they all look like regular snapshots.. definitely nothing jumping out at me.

#1 is simply uninteresting
#2 is overexposed, the sky is blown, and I'm not seeing anything of particular interest here either. Had the colors been more vibrant and blue skies visible, that might be a different story.
#3 There are a LOT of problems with this. The sky and water are blown, there's no detail visible in the rocks, it's tilted. On a technical level, it's a disaster.
#4 is the same as #1, nothing particularly interesting about it, just looks like an average every day family vacation snapshot.

Despite all the problems with #3, there IS something about it that I like, and I can't put my finger on it. When I see it, it almost looks like it was taken in the 1960s or something. Not sure why.

 

[CapM]

They all look like out of focus pictures from a point and shoot camera. Sorry - just keeping it real.

 

[simo110]

the only one tha hat an interesting subject is #3 but the photo is horrible. Blown water, tilted horizon, white sky. You either need to zoom in to your subject, or do HDR. Turning on the flash may help a little too.

Thank you, but the subject in #3 is not the Guys as you may think, I wanted to make a silhouette of the edges of that cave. Because there is too much light coming from the outside and very dark in the inside

Here is an example of how I wanted it to be, (without the crowd of course):

 

[arcooke]

I just now noticed that you said you took these with a point and shoot. That does, to a point, excuse some of the problems with your photos (blown skies/exposure issues) since you probably don't have much control over the settings. There's still a lot you can do with a point and shoot though.

 

[reznap]

Well.. they're nice scenes. Nice locations. Kinda tough crowd to be asking for critique on point and shoot photos (I've tried before).

All considered, I think #1 and #3 are nice. #1 I'd like to see more background. The area in the distance seems to go on forever... more of that and less foreground would have made for a better shot in my opinion.

Don't get discouraged simo, and a lot of views and no comments doesn't really mean much. People browse here often who don't even have accounts - counts as a view.

 

[simo110]

Well.. they're nice scenes. Nice locations. Kinda tough crowd to be asking for critique on point and shoot photos (I've tried before).

All considered, I think #1 and #3 are nice. #1 I'd like to see more background. The area in the distance seems to go on forever... more of that and less foreground would have made for a better shot in my opinion.

Don't get discouraged simo, and a lot of views and no comments doesn't really mean much. People browse here often who don't even have accounts - counts as a view.

Thank you so much =)
I feel better now

 

[GeorgieGirl]

Ohhhh, go go back to #3 and be able to take it all over again! I see what you were going for and like what you did with the thumbnail.

 

[nonamexx]

It's easy to get an overexposure when you're shooting from the darkness and into the bright areas. The cave shot was probably really tough to get right without a different metering mode and compensation for exposure. I think your attempt is great.

I like the locations but you could have done a lot better with these if you had set up the shots a little more carefully.

#1 is good, but just misses something. I think it has potential with a different framing.

#2 not so good. Least interesting of the lot.

#4 is the best of the lot I think. You could sharpen it a bit though.

 

[Bram]

Cool idea, definately not out of reach. Cool set, looks like a great place for some cool HDR. I would try #1, #2 looks alright nothing really stand out. #3 is bada$$, and then #4 also has potential. #1 should be an HDR.