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UER Forum > Archived UE Photo Critiques > Looking For Tips (Viewed 438 times) Jonsered  Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong Gender: Male Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........  |  |  |  Looking For Tips < on 10/16/2007 6:39 PM >   Just started playing with black & white after many years off. Hoping to get some tips on the whole thing. All comments are appreciated. click to view I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread. zmuh11  Location: St. Louis Gender: Male  |  Re: Looking For Tips <Reply # 1 on 10/16/2007 6:55 PM >   Well I think you can probably stand to turn your contrast up a little bit to maybe squeeze some more detail out of the MOTEL sign. The image as a whole just isn't interesting. It's very flat and my eye can just roam around the image with no real sense of direction or composition. I like the clouds in the background at least. Keep shooting. msgsudz  Location: Peterborough, Ontario Gender: Male Msgsudz has an overactive bowel and shits like a Clydesdale.  |  |  Re: Looking For Tips <Reply # 2 on 10/17/2007 2:47 AM >   hope you don't mind, but this is what i would've done with the photo... first i would crop out most of the surroundings and focus the photo more on the decaying motel sign, as well as just adjusting the contrast and white balance a bit. "She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro!" - Zapp Brannigan Jonsered  Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong Gender: Male Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........  |  |  |  Re: Looking For Tips <Reply # 3 on 10/17/2007 2:43 PM >   Posted by msgsudz hope you don't mind, but this is what i would've done with the photo... first i would crop out most of the surroundings and focus the photo more on the decaying motel sign, as well as just adjusting the contrast and white balance a bit. I don't mind a bit. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the assist! I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread. msgsudz  Location: Peterborough, Ontario Gender: Male Msgsudz has an overactive bowel and shits like a Clydesdale.  |  |  Re: Looking For Tips <Reply # 4 on 10/17/2007 3:28 PM >   Posted by Jonsered I don't mind a bit. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the assist! not a problem. "She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro!" - Zapp Brannigan hydrotherapy  Clever Girl Location: Circle of Least Confusion RPS is inside all of us  |  |  Re: Looking For Tips <Reply # 5 on 10/18/2007 12:47 PM >   I can't help much as far as the technical aspects of B&W goes but as far as the composition of the image... Everything seems a bit too symmetrical. Your horizon is almost perfectly centered, the motel sign is the slightest bit off-center, that arrow on the left side of the image (cropped) is dragged your eye away from your focal point, and while you have some interesting dynamic going between the angle of the powerlines/roof in contrast with the opposite diagonal of the sidewalk... it all sort of flattens out. My cropping suggestion, if you can't go back and reshoot (preferably from a little lower to the ground, maybe?) Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. Jonsered  Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong Gender: Male Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........  |  |  |  Re: Looking For Tips <Reply # 6 on 10/18/2007 2:42 PM >   Posted by hydrotherapy I can't help much as far as the technical aspects of B&W goes but as far as the composition of the image... Everything seems a bit too symmetrical. Your horizon is almost perfectly centered, the motel sign is the slightest bit off-center, that arrow on the left side of the image (cropped) is dragged your eye away from your focal point, and while you have some interesting dynamic going between the angle of the powerlines/roof in contrast with the opposite diagonal of the sidewalk... it all sort of flattens out. My cropping suggestion, if you can't go back and reshoot (preferably from a little lower to the ground, maybe?) Thanks Hydro! That is part of my problem here. I'm not a photographer by nature. I'm naturally drawn toward everything being perfectly centered and evenly spaced. Is there a basic rule of framing, like there is a rule in music about the circle of fifths? Is there a book you might suggest that covers this topic, or a website? Thanks! I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread. antyhero  Location: Louisville, KY Gender: Male  |  Re: Looking For Tips <Reply # 7 on 10/18/2007 2:43 PM >   The rule of thirds is a good starting point. Here's a brief explanation. http://photoinf.co...ule_of_thirds.html [last edit 10/18/2007 2:48 PM by antyhero - edited 1 times] I changed my mind so much I can't even trust it. My mind changed me so much I can't even trust myself. Modest Mouse Jonsered  Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong Gender: Male Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........  |  |  |  Re: Looking For Tips <Reply # 8 on 10/18/2007 2:52 PM >   Posted by antyhero The rule of thirds is a good starting point. Here's a brief explanation. http://photoinf.co...ule_of_thirds.html Aha! Should be interesting to try. Thanks to all for your help! I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread. Furious D  Location: Northern Ontario Gender: Male The Night Time is the Right Time  |  Re: Looking For Tips <Reply # 9 on 10/25/2007 1:35 AM >   I think you've been helped pretty well! If only those stupid power lines weren't above it, cause it would look incredible if you were looking upwards at it. "The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Fame is a by-product of doing something else. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit." -Banksy The work of FuriousD: https://www.flickr...photos/opdendries/ UER Forum > Archived UE Photo Critiques > Looking For Tips (Viewed 438 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. 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