What is wrong with the conditions you captured these photos in?
I really like photo # 2 - pictures # 5 & 6, to me the water don't look right...looks too smooth like it was softened a little too much...and photo # 1...to me (and I am not a professional, trust me), but for photo number one - personally, I think if I were shooting that photo, I would have made the sky have more of the photo due to the clouds and less of the water, unless you were trying to get a better photo of the water...that is just me seeing what I see... You know, I keep looking at photo # 1 and think that if you would have stood to the left in the water and captured the water pointing towards the hill/cliff what ever, I think that the flow of the lines with the sky and water would work, and that is why I really like photo # 2! Good job overall!
Thanks, that first pic was more about symmetry and the balance between the busy sky and less complicated sea and using the rock foreground interest and the incoming tide to lead the eye down that long beach, and the last 2 images where me experimenting with my new KASE K9 system and a 16 stop ND, that last picture took 30 mins before i saw it on the back of my camera :)
While the tide line is a leading line the nearest part on the left is also the lightest which draws and holds the eye. Consider burning the lights down here while dodging (lightening) and saturating slightly the horizon where you might want the eye to be drawn. just suggestions
Thanks Mr Reeman i see what you mean, maybe also that light part of sand taking up almost 1/3rd of the bottom left of the image slightly brightening that, i use a CC plugin called lumenzia used for luminosity masks, seems i need to mess around with this pic a bit more and see what happens thanks for the insight.
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Eddy, these are impressive, considering you only started 18 months ago, especially the first two images. If I can make one constructive criticism, it's that you're over processing your images; a mistake we've all made. It's particularly noticeable in images 3 & 4.
Thanks Joe, i was a commercial artist in all fairness so I have some idea of colour and composition and design, not exactly sure what you mean by over processing, my monitor and printer is calibrated with an X-Rite i1Photo Pro 2, but i have noticed some of my images on other uncalibrated devices or smartphones look wildly different to what i see and print, maybe thats it ? anyway thanks.
It's a very personal opinion Eddy, but some images look over sharpened, and a little too contrasty. That being said, I'd like to see the images on a bigger screen. I was referring to images 3 & 4, in particular. Your comment regarding how images look very different on different screens is a valid one. I'm viewing yours at about 4' x 5" on a MacBook Air.
thanks joe looked at your images you are really good man, i never sharpen images well very little
as it causes big problems and artifacts, I do focus stack though sometimes, i kind of see what you mean, but i have not very good eyes so nothing really looks sharp to me :)
What is wrong with the conditions you captured these photos in?
I really like photo # 2 - pictures # 5 & 6, to me the water don't look right...looks too smooth like it was softened a little too much...and photo # 1...to me (and I am not a professional, trust me), but for photo number one - personally, I think if I were shooting that photo, I would have made the sky have more of the photo due to the clouds and less of the water, unless you were trying to get a better photo of the water...that is just me seeing what I see... You know, I keep looking at photo # 1 and think that if you would have stood to the left in the water and captured the water pointing towards the hill/cliff what ever, I think that the flow of the lines with the sky and water would work, and that is why I really like photo # 2! Good job overall!
Thanks, that first pic was more about symmetry and the balance between the busy sky and less complicated sea and using the rock foreground interest and the incoming tide to lead the eye down that long beach, and the last 2 images where me experimenting with my new KASE K9 system and a 16 stop ND, that last picture took 30 mins before i saw it on the back of my camera :)
those are still good photos...by the way!
While the tide line is a leading line the nearest part on the left is also the lightest which draws and holds the eye. Consider burning the lights down here while dodging (lightening) and saturating slightly the horizon where you might want the eye to be drawn. just suggestions
Thanks Mr Reeman i see what you mean, maybe also that light part of sand taking up almost 1/3rd of the bottom left of the image slightly brightening that, i use a CC plugin called lumenzia used for luminosity masks, seems i need to mess around with this pic a bit more and see what happens thanks for the insight.
Eddy, these are impressive, considering you only started 18 months ago, especially the first two images. If I can make one constructive criticism, it's that you're over processing your images; a mistake we've all made. It's particularly noticeable in images 3 & 4.
Thanks Joe, i was a commercial artist in all fairness so I have some idea of colour and composition and design, not exactly sure what you mean by over processing, my monitor and printer is calibrated with an X-Rite i1Photo Pro 2, but i have noticed some of my images on other uncalibrated devices or smartphones look wildly different to what i see and print, maybe thats it ? anyway thanks.
It's a very personal opinion Eddy, but some images look over sharpened, and a little too contrasty. That being said, I'd like to see the images on a bigger screen. I was referring to images 3 & 4, in particular. Your comment regarding how images look very different on different screens is a valid one. I'm viewing yours at about 4' x 5" on a MacBook Air.
thanks joe looked at your images you are really good man, i never sharpen images well very little
as it causes big problems and artifacts, I do focus stack though sometimes, i kind of see what you mean, but i have not very good eyes so nothing really looks sharp to me :)
For 18 months experience outstanding work. Keep it up.