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4 years 7 months ago #658850 by devizeskayak
Hi Guys,
It's been a long time since I've picked up the camera!  Did a little study of the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Va on a Saturday afternoon..  Would love a critique on composition, emotion and feel of the photographs! 

Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D5500
Lens: 35.0 mm f/1.8
ISO: 2000
Aperture: f/1.8
Shutter speed: 1/200 sec
Captured: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:08pm


Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D5500
Lens: 35.0 mm f/1.8
ISO: 3200
Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter speed: 1/60 sec
Captured: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:21pm


Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D5500
Lens: 35.0 mm f/1.8
ISO: 800
Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter speed: 1/200 sec
Captured: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 17:30pm


Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D5500
Lens: 35.0 mm f/1.8
ISO: 3200
Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter speed: 1/100 sec
Captured: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 17:45pm


Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D5500
Lens: 35.0 mm f/1.8
ISO: 3200
Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter speed: 1/100 sec
Captured: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:06pm


Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D5500
Lens: 18.0-55.0 mm f/3.5-5.6
ISO: 3200
Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter speed: 1/125 sec
Captured: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 17:58pm
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4 years 7 months ago #658880 by Nikon Shooter
My comment goes toward the rendition of your images.

I like the DR expression and the constant quality of the
conversion of the set… very good! ;)
Light is free… capturing it is not!
Photo Comments
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4 years 7 months ago #658928 by Joshua Atkins
Nice range of tones here. Well-rendered! 
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4 years 7 months ago #659002 by devizeskayak
Thanks guys! I'm glad the rendering works :)

Main drive is to work on how to get better content!
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4 years 7 months ago #659005 by Nikon Shooter
If you mean "story telling", some comments:

#1 The better one for me… because of the eye contact.

#2 I fell the two persons are too far from the other, you
could have worked the image.

#3 Why is so much of the building in the shot, what is the
relation to the woman?

#4 Tighter could be the way to go and not cut the elbow.

#5 I can't read the story, the action. Where is the interest?
Light is free… capturing it is not!
Photo Comments
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4 years 7 months ago #659018 by devizeskayak

Nikon Shooter wrote: If you mean "story telling", some comments:

#1 The better one for me… because of the eye contact.

#2 I fell the two persons are too far from the other, you
could have worked the image.

#3 Why is so much of the building in the shot, what is the
relation to the woman?

#4 Tighter could be the way to go and not cut the elbow.

#5 I can't read the story, the action. Where is the interest?


Thank you! Yes, this is very helpful. I find i get "stuck in place" sometimes and just take one view of a scene and am "rooted" - have a hard time getting the courage to move and explore the image. I find photographing in public a really difficult anxious exercise and I'm trying to learn and grow in how to take candid pictures that are responsible and not creepy and have real emotion and story. I suppose it's as much trying to understand what it is I'm trying to say and I think the uncertainty of story or vision comes across.  Lot's to think about, and thank you for taking the time to analyze the images!
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4 years 6 months ago #659379 by Kelly Emery
I think the first shot is the most successful of all. The last shot is not far behind if you're trying to document a regular scene in the street, but there must indeed be a story in it. 
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4 years 6 months ago #661028 by Sara Miles
Nice rendered  here. The DR is good but the point of interests of the shots can still definitely improve. 
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4 years 6 months ago #661189 by effron
I like, the second is my favorite for some reason.....
Why so serious?
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4 years 6 months ago #661215 by Monica Martinez
This is not a bad set for me. The render is good indeed but true enough that the story-telling needs to be worked out. 
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