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Here is part 2 of my lunchtime adventure.

I did find some people in the park, but didn't feel brave enough to take any photos, so I apologise if these shots are missing the human element in them.


Thanks,
Craig




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No. 2 and 5 are not that great, but I assume it is necessary to go this path for mastering composition skills.

Third is good one. Really good one. Just a bit mess behind. Maybe try to come back there and check different angles, different lightings. This object has a potencial. That is for sure.

Regarding to other shots, I can see your ideas and will to make a good composition. I recon very often problem sits with messy background not allowing subject to stand out.

Sorry if I am too critique, but as I value honest advice I hope others will appreciate that.

Regards,

K.Polak

All feedback is welcome, so it can never been to critical, I have so much to learn, and sometimes I'm not even sure if it's possibly a good shot or a bad shot. For instance I didn't really think much of the shot in the mirror, but when I looked close, it does have some appeal.

And again you liked the dials in shot two, it tells part of the story, when I went to investigate a "Darth Vader" type breathing noise. On close inspection there was a diver under the wharf, and this was part of his boat. Unfortuately it was a targe of opportunity, so it won't be there again Here is the full picture of what shot 3 is about.

You never know. If this boat stopped there one , might stop again. BTW I like full view of the boat. Try to cut top with deck on the left, but not too much. Leave horizontal, dark timber (possibly masking deck leftovers will apply) and you have got an interesting photo

Regards,

K.Polak

Feel free to crop it as you described (if you want too) , I don't mind people playing around with my photo's, especially if we can make it look better

Some nice shots there Craig... Lots of variety, lots of practice...

One of your subjects looked immediately familiar to me - I featured it in this thread a few months ago...

John,
Fantastic perspective and also great PP skills on the shadows, you certainly captured the interesting feel much better then I did. I've walked past previously without the camera sure that it could be good for some shots, and I was right. (Out of interest how many did you take, to get the "final one" so to speak ?)

Alpha_7,

That would be my version:



1. Cropping and then masking top-left decking.

2. Working with level and saturation to bring back some life.

3. Separating boats with mask and increasing bringness with curves than again quick saturation correction only for boat, basicly lifting up yellows.

4. Bringing up control board colour (blue glass reflection).

Also would be worth to try B&W.

Regards,

K.Polak

Wow, I'm suitably impressed. I will have to devote some time to working on PP, if in such a short period of time you can enchance a shot, thanks for sharing your artistic eye with me.

Alpha_7 wrote:John,
Fantastic perspective and also great PP skills on the shadows, you certainly captured the interesting feel much better then I did. I've walked past previously without the camera sure that it could be good for some shots, and I was right. (Out of interest how many did you take, to get the "final one" so to speak ?)

I can only find one other shot of the whalebones, but I might have deleted a couple more...
Here's a selection of shots that I took on the same day in the same area - hunt them down in your next lunchtime session and let us see your take on them...



I don't want to hijack your thread, so I'll keep them really small...

Leek,

You tricked my eyes with no. 5

Regards,

K.Polak

Well I am literally 100 metres away, so I can come up with something (when I can bring the camera in (only when my wife drives) ). Here is my other shot of the bones.