SOME C and C please, Tips encouraged

[PhotoCalifornia]

So i am a noob to photography and only hope to be as good as you guys. Please give me some tips to move up some in my skills



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[WesternGuy]

If you want folks to C&C on your images, then I would suggest that you number them. That way, a reviewer will be able to remember which one they are critiquing, rather than having to flip back and forth to make sure they have the right image. Thanks.

WesternGuy

 

[eric1971]

I'm no expert, but here is what I see:

1. Not sure what I am looking at. I think the subject could be interesting if approached from a different angle. Looks out of focus.

2. You cropped off the top corner of the building. Either show the entire top or crop it further. Might look better from a different angle and/or as a b & w conversion.

3. Looks like a vacation snap-shot at the beach. Ocean is blown out and the foreground is underexposed.

 

[pgriz]

Snapshots you share with family and friends. They use the image to bring back the memories of the shared event. The pictorial quality is generally not important.

Images you share with strangers, have to give your audience a reason for looking. We can only react to what we see in the image, and therefore it is up to the photographer to put all the details that the audience is supposed to notice in the image. Images are a bit like short stories - there is a beginning (the initial place the eye focuses on in the image - usually the brightest or sharpest part of the image), a middle (the "meat" of the image to which the photographer guides the viewer by using a variety of tools), and the end (which is the point where the viewer exits the image).

That said, #1 shows an interesting pattern, but the lack of sharpness, and the areas of over-exposure, severely diminish the impact.
#2 This is a strong shot with leading lines, but it suffers from over-exposure on the right, poor positioning of the lines in the frame (the top should be straight, not angled), and the overall sharpness of the image is not crisp. Good idea, needs more work on the execution.
#3 Shooting into the sun can be very difficult, and you need to decide what part of the image is more important - is it the sun shining on the water or is it the people in the foreground? If the former, it is grossly over-exposed, and if the latter, there is no clear point of focus or point of interest for us, and it is underexposed, as eric1971 already noted.

 

[Frequency]

Second and third images have great potentials in them...

I made the second image a bit more symmetric

In the third image i removed the blown out parts to make it a strip of activity

Hope you don't mind







Regards

 

[PhotoCalifornia]

Thank you everyone for the tips. to Frequency thank you for the edits they look much better

 

[PhotoCalifornia]

Oh btw 1 is a old fire escape, 2 i took while riding a trolly