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 SirJinx
    
Location: Los Angeles Area
Gender: Male
 |  | Critique a Couple of Cemetery/Mausoleum Shots
< on 7/5/2008 9:53 PM >
|  | | | Give it to me straight. Am I sucking on composition, lighting? Which of these suck and which are pretty okay? Using a Panasonic Lumix Camera DMC-FZ18(not quite a DSLR, not quite a point and shoot).
1. Strange Gravestone
2. Mausoleum
3. Inner Crypt
4. Jewish Crypt
5. Corridor of Peace
6. The Only Angel in the Cemetery
7. The Blessed Mother
8. A 4 Way Gravestone
Thanks in advance. Please do let me know what I'm doing right and doing wrong. I am determined to get this right at some point.
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msgsudz
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Gender: Male
Msgsudz has an overactive bowel and shits like a Clydesdale.
| |  | Re: Critique a Couple of Cemetery/Mausoleum Shots
<Reply # 1 on 7/5/2008 11:05 PM >
| | | | my first critique would be to straighten your lines as many of these shots are crooked. your composition is improving, but you need to work on your framing of the shots, so you're not cutting off pieces of things that need to be in the shot, and including things that shouldn't be. just look critically at your shots and decide what is and isn't working in it. especially if you're going for a symmetrical composition.
your strongest shots to me here are #'s 4 and 7. you've got some great lighting and reflections going on in the Jewish Mausoleum, but you're crooked lines detract from the shot. take your time and check your framing of the shot, the lines as they recede into the distance, in this case the end of the hallway of the mausoleum.
The Blessed Mother is a decent shot as well, with the beautiful and vibrant background contrasting nicely with the softness and melancholy of the statue...but again you need to watch your framing of the shot where perhaps you could have composed the shot crouching down and shooting up towards the statue with the stained glass behind it.
just suggestions, not sure if they help or not. the main thing is to crop carefully and watched for crookedness of your lines.
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SirJinx
Location: Los Angeles Area
Gender: Male
| | Re: Critique a Couple of Cemetery/Mausoleum Shots
<Reply # 2 on 7/6/2008 4:38 AM >
| | | | Gracias dude.
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Martino
Location: Almere - NL
Gender: Male
2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
| | | Re: Critique a Couple of Cemetery/Mausoleum Shots
<Reply # 3 on 7/6/2008 9:01 AM >
| | | | first of all - it's not about doing it right or wrong. Here's my opinion wich i hope helps you along the way.
msgsudz is right about the crooked lines and framing. i'm not gonna say anything about that.
specific critique on these pic's:
#1 is bit overexposed in the background.
#2 nice shot! I would like to see a little more sky above the highest tree in the shot.
#3 would be better if it was symmetrical
#4 this is a very strong one!
#5 i like this a lot too - but it seems a bit fuzzy.
#6 I don't like the statue (or the shoe of the statue) being cut off at the bottom. Especially when the subject is not in the middle you should make sure it's visible without distractions.
#7 good shot! maybe one step behind if possible? to give the statue more space and a more prominent place in the shot.
#8 work on the framing of this one. not my favourite.
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SirJinx
Location: Los Angeles Area
Gender: Male
| | Re: Critique a Couple of Cemetery/Mausoleum Shots
<Reply # 4 on 7/6/2008 10:09 PM >
| | | | Awesome, thanks for the critique man.
I have a question for you regarding pic number 1. It was an EXTREMELY sunny day on that day. I kept feeling like most of the external shots were going to get washed out with sunlight. I actually have dozens of graveyard shots, all washed out.
Other than going at an earlier or later time in the day, is there any way to battle background washout like that? Or is just late afternoon shooting the way to go?
Thanks again.
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Imbroglio
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
| | | Re: Critique a Couple of Cemetery/Mausoleum Shots
<Reply # 5 on 7/8/2008 4:56 PM >
| | | | Posted by SirJinx
Awesome, thanks for the critique man.
I have a question for you regarding pic number 1. It was an EXTREMELY sunny day on that day. I kept feeling like most of the external shots were going to get washed out with sunlight. I actually have dozens of graveyard shots, all washed out.
Other than going at an earlier or later time in the day, is there any way to battle background washout like that? Or is just late afternoon shooting the way to go?
Thanks again.
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Based on the shadow angles, it looks like a polarizing filter might have helped out there.
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Martino
Location: Almere - NL
Gender: Male
2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
| | | Re: Critique a Couple of Cemetery/Mausoleum Shots
<Reply # 6 on 7/10/2008 3:13 PM >
| | | | Posted by SirJinx
Awesome, thanks for the critique man.
I have a question for you regarding pic number 1. It was an EXTREMELY sunny day on that day. I kept feeling like most of the external shots were going to get washed out with sunlight. I actually have dozens of graveyard shots, all washed out.
Other than going at an earlier or later time in the day, is there any way to battle background washout like that? Or is just late afternoon shooting the way to go?
Thanks again.
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your welcome!
Imbroglio is right - polarizing filter. But i have no experience with that.
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willskith
 
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: Critique a Couple of Cemetery/Mausoleum Shots
<Reply # 7 on 7/10/2008 9:27 PM >
| | | | Your composition has gotten way better. The first few are pretty good. You could have made 2 even better by panning to the right more when you took it so more of the mausoleum was in the shot
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