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Earlier this month, my family spent a week in Washington fellowshipping with friends, attending a family conference, and sight-seeing (like all tourists do! 😉 ). I had brought my camera along to capture some unfamiliar scenery and I was pleasantly happy with the results! I’ve attached my favourite shots from the week…any thoughts/advise/etc.?
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Wow, Morgan, those are some nice pictures you got!
-Between the two sunset photos, I like the second one better. The first one is nice, but if it wasn’t for the sun, it doesn’t seem like it would really be an interesting shot. In the second one, the foreground and background kinda blend together so it’s initially a bit difficult to see what’s actually what, and it feels a bit cluttered. I don’t know if there’s something you could do in editing to separate them a bit…?
-I like the city photos, but my favorite is the last one – that’s such a neat angle! I think I’d try to edit out all those (rusty?) splotches on that whole building frame on the left side of the photo, and the little specks on the lower right area.Thanks so much, Lydia!
I appreciate your helpful comments! 🙂 You’re right about the second sunrise shot…I was moving the camera around for the correct sunburst exposure and didn’t notice the…ahem…metal fence in front of me. So that’s what you see in the middle and lower half of the photo – a metal fence. I really don’t know how I missed that at the time! I don’t think I have another angle without the metal fence in my archive either.
Thank you! The last two are my favourites as well! 😀 I’ve reattached the photo with some of the splotches removed. Does it look better now? When I took the shot, I was on a revolving glass floor 500 feet in the air up in the Space Needle; I’m not a heights person, so needless to say, my heart was down in my shoes while my feet were 500ft in the air! For some reason, I looked down, saw this angle, snapped a picture, and said to myself “Why in the world did you do that? That is the craziest thing you’ve ever shot? And it does look good at all.” On the camera screen it didn’t look the least bit appealing, but when I downloaded it to the computer…WOW! The gears started turning as I began to see possibility in the photo, and what do you know, it became one of my favourite shots for the entire week!
Thanks again for your comments, Lydia!!
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Wow I’m not a heights person either, so congrats for facing your fears! 😀
…Yes, it is looking better; if you really want to get detailed and make it absolutely pristine, I would try to edit out every single one of the speckles and splotches on the entire building frame on the left half of the photo, if that’s possible!
Haha, thank you! 😄
Well, that would probably take more time and patience then I currently have at my disposal, but I’ll add it to my list of things to slowly work on. Thanks again!
Hah I think I’d say the same if I was in your shoes, but figured, “hey I’ll just mention it anyways” 😀
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You’re right about the second sunrise shot…I was moving the camera around for the correct sunburst exposure and didn’t notice the…ahem…metal fence in front of me.
Actually, I had figured out that was a fence, but I found the trees in the foreground and the trees in the background (above the fence) to blend together as a whole to a certain degree, so that’s more what I was talking about in my original comment.
@morganwriter1gmail-com… I remember when I got visit the inside of the space needle! I was ten years old, and I brought my little point and shoot and took some photos, then later I traveled to the East Coast and got a lot of pictures of the Statue of Liberty… and then very painfully learned the hard way why we photographers regularly transfer photos on the computer instead of leaving them on the card (my card was formatted unexpectedly…).
Yeah, on the lines of your Space Needle picture, I think one of the things that makes it pop so much as an abstract is that you almost have a fibonacci type spiral thing going for you (like if I took a picture of a pine cone). On top of that, that roundness is contrasted abruptly and harshly with the big straight steel beams. The cars add a sense of scale and place and make the image interesting because it shows that you are in a skyscraper. I think one of the other things that makes your image interesting is that we all look straight up at skyscrapers. You show a view looking straight down from a skyscraper. That makes it unusual and thus interesting to look at!
Good job for an accidental pic! I’ll have to look for contrasting patterns to see if I can’t come up with something similar.I just love looking at y’alls pictures! I am transported to new places I’ve never been! I so wish I could critique them all, but I just didn’t have time last month, so I’ll just say if you’d like me to get into them, feel free to ask on the webinar tomorrow (https://www.lenspiration.com/photo-critique-with-lenspiration-oct-9/). For now, I just have to say that my favorite is that shot that everyone has been talking about, the one looking down. It just has a fantastic way of communicating a concrete message of “thrill” to the viewer….despite the absence of concrete under your feet. 🙂 I’ve gotta say I do love sunset pictures, though, and my comment on those is that I wonder if maybe they are underexposed; even the sky and water look so dark that they don’t hold my attention for long and I’m off to thinking about what the other pictures are in the slideshow. 🙂
@loganlamar, thanks for your comment here! You made a good point there about contrast and scale; I hadn’t thought about it that!
@jamesstaddon, I appreciate your comment! I think I did underexpose them a bit…I was going for a silhouette effect, but probably over did it. 😂 I also really did not notice the fence there right away. Can’t see how I missed that but oh well. 🙂Thank you all!
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