The photography assignment #1 - GALLERY

[drakkie]

Just a kind of gallery of what the members took in the past two weeks around the following theme:

- Twins -


Cotterik

Alice through the looking glass

The Lowry Theatre, Salford.



The distance twin towers.

The Lowry Bridge, Salford.




70cuda88

Fraternal Twins
June 30th
Kodak C533



Italianspirit

Ferrari 599 GTB Fioranos
June 30th 2007
Toronto, Canada
Canon Powershot S3 IS



Rijoh

Half a dozen
June 27th 2007
Somewhere in Germany
Canon PowerShot A520



Drakkie
Fuji Finepix S5600
Papegaaienbek looking into the EuropaHaven





Any comments and critique is welcome in this thread, as long as you keep it nice.

[digitalcraft]

Drakkie, a little photoshop touchup would make those pictures really pop. I enjoy the subject matter a lot.

[Suka]

I'm a big fan of colour so Cotteriks pictures really appeal to me.
I feel that if, Drakkie, you i were to do something to your photo to bring out the reds and blues a bit more that they would (to me) look a bit better.
I am not the greatest photographer myself so i find it hard to suggest anything about the other photos.

[NSXType-R]

Those pictures are nicely done.

[Rockefella]

Although Cotterik's photos have a very dreamlike/heavily edited look, I like them a lot. The vivid color and hard contrast set it off from a normal picture.

70Cuda's is pretty cool, bringing the historical reference in play, but something's weird about the photoshopped background to mimic a studio surround. I like the concept.

ItalianSpirit has the run-of-the-mill Automotive Photo Comp pic, catering to the theme of twins. It's a good pic, of two pretty black Ferraris.

Rijoh's is similar to ItalianSpirit's with the automotive theme, but has an edded element with 6, rather than 2 clones in one pic. The one car facing the other way is cool too.

Drakkie's has a nice 'communist era' feel to it, looks very surreal.

They're all good shots.

[SPHFerrari]

Really lovin the HDR cotterik, you keep getting better at it. Both are also great shots without the added bonus of a spectacular HDR treatment.

Drakkie, are you doing any PP? They have a bit of a sepia, old look to them, but I find it only half way there. I think you should experiment with low saturation and monotone treatments to really bang out that effect. Also, number two seems a little bit slanted to the right, try straightening it a bit.

[70cuda88]

haha, those nintendoes are really old, and dirty. So i cleaned them up with a bit of Photoshop Magic.

[Ingolstadt]

Now we can hear people started talking about photography rather than sceneries ....

Excellent shots cotterik .... screw the watermarks thou...

[The_Canuck]

Cotterik, I think on the second photo a smaller watermark down by the pavement would be nicer...just to show of the sky more...

[Cotterik]

yeah, i have moved it since. Its just for safety on the net.

[drakkie]

Originally Posted by digitalcraft

Drakkie, a little photoshop touchup would make those pictures really pop. I enjoy the subject matter a lot.

Originally Posted by Suka

I feel that if, Drakkie, you i were to do something to your photo to bring out the reds and blues a bit more that they would (to me) look a bit better.
I am not the greatest photographer myself so i find it hard to suggest anything about the other photos.

Originally Posted by Rockefella

Drakkie's has a nice 'communist era' feel to it, looks very surreal.

They're all good shots.

Originally Posted by SPHFerrari

Drakkie, are you doing any PP? They have a bit of a sepia, old look to them, but I find it only half way there. I think you should experiment with low saturation and monotone treatments to really bang out that effect. Also, number two seems a little bit slanted to the right, try straightening it a bit.

Thanks for all the excellent comments guys. I try to reach the old-ish communist feeling on most of my port pictures. I quite like that and it is quite unique, among all the 100's of other port photographers. I did PP these, they were RAW-Edited.

I will definately try some things on them you suggested here. Cheers !