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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: armand on October 02, 2011, 12:20:33 pm

Title: San Diego
Post by: armand on October 02, 2011, 12:20:33 pm
Taken last January, forgot to play with them for a while. I'm starting with these.
Title: Re: San Diego
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 02, 2011, 12:44:52 pm
Flying saucers invading San Diego? Rise of the (Coffee) Machines (a.k.a. Terminator 3)? :)

Actually, I like the design and color of the last one.
Title: Re: San Diego
Post by: armand on October 02, 2011, 12:59:07 pm
They are not representative of San Diego (at least not all), it's just they were shot there. And on my computer they are under San Diego so I just kept the same title  ;)
Here are a few shots that will fit
Title: Re: San Diego
Post by: eclectix on October 02, 2011, 09:57:43 pm
My favorites are #3 from the first post, and #3 from the second post.  Very nice work on these.
Title: Re: San Diego
Post by: popnfresh on October 03, 2011, 12:17:32 pm
This is an interesting set of photographs. I like #4 one the most. You might also consider making a B&W version of that one. Numbers 2 and 3 would have benefited from a shallow depth of field to isolate the foreground subject. The focus is too deep for those shots. Also, in #2 I think your angle was too low--the table isn't very interesting--and you cropped a little too tight at the top.
Title: Re: San Diego
Post by: armand on October 05, 2011, 09:29:40 pm
This is an interesting set of photographs. I like #4 one the most. You might also consider making a B&W version of that one. Numbers 2 and 3 would have benefited from a shallow depth of field to isolate the foreground subject. The focus is too deep for those shots. Also, in #2 I think your angle was too low--the table isn't very interesting--and you cropped a little too tight at the top.

Unfortunately the depth of field was more difficult to control on the third one as it was a small sensor (Canon S90, handheld).
On the second one I had to hold the camera on the table as the light was not that abundant, and the combination with a wide angle lens didn't allow me too much room to compose (or too shallow DOF)

Here is a bw version of it, plus few more experimental versions where I played only with the WB or the tint (in the last one)