Welcome to the group Guarav, and I obviously you enjoy what you've found here: I just hope our comments don't upset you! My comments, and I only looked at the three showing on the link: Wah Taj - if you're going to make a building lean by titling the camera, you might as well go all the way! I am not sure about the tower at the right, it might have been preferable to include the base, to connect it with the wall in the foreground. The shot seems a little unsharp, perhaps out of focus, in the middle to top of the frame.
Shaky foundations - it's seldom possible to convince anyone that you did this on purpose, and I think that we've all taken shots just like it hand-held and thrown them away. It doesn't really do anything for me at all. Colours - I think I see what you were trying to do here, but it just doesn't work for at least three reasons: 1. That horizon! IMHO, it's either level or it's wrong. You might be able to justify it with a dynamic marine action shot, but not with one as static as this. 2. The tree. It's pretty ugly in form, and I would have changed my viewpoint to lose it altogether. If you couldn't do that, it might have been possible to use it as a frame at one side of the shot. 3. The exposure, or possibly the post-scanning adjustment, is just not deep enough. You're obviously trying to use the silhouettes in the foreground to contrast with the colours on the horizon, and on my monitor they are not dark enough. Was it scanned from the slide by you or by a laboratory? If a lab, it seems they were trying to bring the shot up to 'normal' daylight levels. Offered in a spirit of trying to be helpful... John Coyle Brisbane, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaurav Aggarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: comments and tips solicited > Hi everyone, > > I am a newbie who has got interested in photography quite recently. > I have been using a camera for more than 5 years now but it was mostly > to take group pictures of family and "touristy" snaps to show where > all I went and what all I did :-) > > http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=748579 > > I would really like to hear from you guys. I have been on the list for > a few months now. Don't think twice before sending negative, most > damnest of all remarks (ref: thread on please comments). I would > appreciate if you tell me how to improve the composition, technique, > get better exposure and in general, photographs that appeal to some. > I understand that "to each his own" but still, right now my pics > don't even appeal that much to me! > > Thanks a lot! > Gaurav > > PS: Thanks to Wendy from whom I bought my ME Super + 50mm f/1.7 recently. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." > -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 > >
