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Dont worry I am not subjecting you all to a series shot through my Tokina 10-17mm fisheye, however I did use my Nikon J1 and its 10mm f/2.8 Pancake. These images are SOOC.

I was aiming for a centered shot, but missed in the tripod placement...and the lens wouldnt have been wide enough


Im not sure what to make of this, I love the pagoda...it is really an if only moment (off camera flash to provide rim light on the RHS)


Shadows and lines......


Someone is going to tell me to clone out the sign in the background.....

cameron that first shot is sensational mate. i quite like the fact that that its not wide enuf or centred. there is something appropriate that the incomplete circles reduce into the main subject.

I like the pagoda shot Cam. I do find the neon sign to the right a bit distracting though.

and you need to clone out that sign in the last

Cameron

#1 is a cracker. Don't be concerned about not getting it centred. While centred is nice you often loose the sense of depth. With this placement you've got the look of the centred image, but with added depth. I think this is better than a perfectly symmetrical centred shot would have been.

Shadows and Lines is the standout shot IMO in this series. The strength of the real along with the strength of the ethereal (the shadow) adds tremendous impact to what could have been a real nothing shot.

That first is very nice Cam and I agree with above - the non symmetric view is good in this case.

I'm a bit ambivalent about the second - I like it sort of... it may be growing on me

Most of the composition of the third is very good as well - I don't think it is fully there yet tho...

and I won't even mention the l...

Thanks guys...I will have to get cracking with that clone tool.

I do really like the non-symmetrical nature of #1... serendipity at its best

Good to see some shots from you cam.

For me, I would have ditched the first or cropped, symmetry is key for me in 95% of cases, this could well just be the engineer me though.

I do like the second, although a bit tighter would have made for a image with more impact for me. There are reallly only two key elements to that image, I say accentuate and focus on them only.

aim54x wrote:Someone is going to tell me to clone out the sign in the background.....

nah.. clone that flower out, stands out like...

Cameron, my vote on the first is for the asymmetric view as is.

For the second, I would like to see something a little different and a crop from just above the top of her red skirt/just below the bright light on the left and retain the bottom of the image. I imagine the red on red in an abstract form would give a different feel.

biggerry wrote:Good to see some shots from you cam.

For me, I would have ditched the first or cropped, symmetry is key for me in 95% of cases, this could well just be the engineer me though.

Gerry my first reaction was *bummer* and was about to hit delete but then stopped......I guess the right brain won that one.

aim54x wrote:Someone is going to tell me to clone out the sign in the background.....

nah.. clone that flower out, stands out like...

Reschsmooth wrote:Cameron, my vote on the first is for the asymmetric view as is.

For the second, I would like to see something a little different and a crop from just above the top of her red skirt/just below the bright light on the left and retain the bottom of the image. I imagine the red on red in an abstract form would give a different feel.

I will have a play with the crop options, but a quick hand mask tells me I will have to work out how much to shave off the bottom.....maybe it was a D800 moment those 36MP would be awesome for such extreme cropping