Rain and Leaves: Photography

[Maloof?]

Just a couple of shots from today.

[IMG]http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/146/d/4/My_Window_by_MalooF.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/146/3/6/It__s_Raining__A_Little_Bit_by_MalooF.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/146/e/8/This_Nature_by_MalooF.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/146/4/9/Another_Window_by_MalooF.jpg[/IMG]

C&C most welcome.

[FieseKante]

I haven't expected much from the title but indeed those shots are pretty good (except for the 2nd).

[Maloof?]

Any comments on what I could improve on? Compositionally/tonally?

[abigserve]

The 2nd and 3rd shots aren't taken from interesting angles, the other two are nice though.

[Dude Meister]

I think the 2nd shot could be improved by a slightly better angle, maybe if you'd taken the shot at a very low angle, and just of the puddle and pavement behind it. The third, maybe if you didn't have those 2 parked cars at the bottom would be better. They're kind of in the foreground, and distract from what you were actually focusing on.

I think shots 1 and 4 are amazing.

[Tyvak]

Great job. If the first one was larger I would use it as my desktop background.

[Fetret]

I love the first and the last one too. At first I thought the last one was a puddle on a cracked road, and I was wondering if that was intentional or not?

[Maloof?]

[QUOTE=Tyvak;22194529]Great job. If the first one was larger I would use it as my desktop background.[/QUOTE]

How big do you want it?

[Tea]

Very big, like, as big as my arms spread wide.

[Maloof?]

[QUOTE=Dude Meister;22191989]I think the 2nd shot could be improved by a slightly better angle, maybe if you'd taken the shot at a very low angle, and just of the puddle and pavement behind it. The third, maybe if you didn't have those 2 parked cars at the bottom would be better. They're kind of in the foreground, and distract from what you were actually focusing on.

I think shots 1 and 4 are amazing.[/QUOTE]

I agree with what you said about the second shot - that was more or less just to show my lecturer that I knew how to use fast shutter speeds. I've had the car-comment a couple of times about that third. I'm going to spend some time re-cropping it today and see how it turns out. In Lightroom I darkened that lower section to reduce the contrast and reduce it's visual importance. The room was pretty bright though so I didn't really get a clear idea of how light and commanding the area still was.

Thanks for the feedback =]

[editline]11:10AM[/editline]

[QUOTE=abigserve;22191893]The 2nd and 3rd shots aren't taken from interesting angles, the other two are nice though.[/QUOTE]
Thanks =]

[editline]11:11AM[/editline]

[QUOTE=Fetret;22195628]I love the first and the last one too. At first I thought the last one was a puddle on a cracked road, and I was wondering if that was intentional or not?[/QUOTE]

It wasn't, but looking at it yesterday evening I realised how it was, at first, difficult to see exactly [I]what[/I] it was. I kind of like that opening ambiguity.

[editline]11:23AM[/editline]

[QUOTE=Tea;22202710]Very big, like, as big as my arms spread wide.[/QUOTE]

I hope your arms are 3000px long because the image is.

[url]http://maloof.deviantart.com/art/The-Window-Wallpaper-165534661[/url]

I uploaded the full version simply because it's a bit of a ridiculous idea resizing the image for every possible screen res.

[Tugger]

I only like the first photo. None of the others are interesting in my opinion. T
The third photo is nice to look at though.