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critiques and comments time again?

from a recent(good friday) trip out along the awhitu peninsula to the manukau heads(auckland, New zealand for those out of the loop)

turns out the actual heads were the least photogenic part, but thats mainly cos i didnt get good enough shots to justify making a pano... so heres the rest and as usual, lemm'e know what yall think.

1. kohekohe presbyterian church circa 1886
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same as above

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same as above

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just further along the rd looking back the way we came.
was taken after i took a cool shot looking down a valley, sucks though, its real hard to replicate vertigo in a photo...

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>> Anonymous
1. don't put the main thing in your photo in teh centre

2. learn to look at things

3. when in doubt, use the rule of thirds, it may be predictable, but it will look better than your shots.

4. black and white does not automatically make art

thats about it, try loads of stuff and work out what looks good
>> I||ICIT !!mknjFN/v/49
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looking out west from a lookout park, the pano i tried here i had to take at 17 and so its badly distorted and PTgui trial couldnt do a very good job of it. luckily this catches most of the view.

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>> I||ICIT !!mknjFN/v/49
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>>148032
yea i had a few shots following rules etc, but colour didnt work with it, and rule of 3rds didnt work with the church, i wanted to keep it simple and plain, obviously like the church.

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>> I||ICIT !!mknjFN/v/49
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just a cool run down barn, similar to the church again, brown on green didnt work and keeping it in the centre just seemed to suit it better.

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>> Anonymous
well you couldnt have madet he church look much more boring IMHO, just dont put it in the centre FFS

some of those shots are OK, but you have a lot of learning to do.
>> I||ICIT !!mknjFN/v/49
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was trying to get a shot of my car against the sun and it didnt work.
again, dull brown on dried grass green....

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2nd to last.

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>> I||ICIT !!mknjFN/v/49
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last proper one.

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>> I||ICIT !!mknjFN/v/49
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so do you honestly prefer the colour and cropped to near 1/3rds version?

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>> Vincent !!8LCSE0Zp1mL
>>148048
Lol definitely yes
>> Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM
>>148026

I love this one, fuck the rules.

I like the fence in the foreground and the background which surrounds... it really cements the structure into the centre of the composition as well as the world it's in.

The clean and crisp DoF is a job well done.

Send us a bigger version of the OP so i can use it as a wall paper :)

>>148026

My fav shot out of the bunch
>> Anonymous
>>148026

This is your best shot of the bunch, looks much bettr than the colour 3rd one too. It still does have composition problems but theres something about the shot that makes it attractive. Taking a bunch of steps back and flipping to portrait would have allowed you to still throw it in the middle, but allow yu to have some negative space on the bottom or top.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>148027
>>148045
I really, really like these two.

The others are kinda meh. Not terrible, but not really particularly compelling either.
>> Anonymous
>>148041
>>148032

you fellas gotta learn that rules were meant to be broken.
>> Depressed Cheesecake !wFh1Fw9wBU
>>148026
Good composition, but clone stamp the sensor dust out and perhaps set up the contrast.

>>148027
Also good. Only thing is maybe lighten the sky a little.

>>148028
Background is a little busy for a BW minimalistic picture.

>>148030
Not much going on here and the focus of the picture (road) is leading out of the picture, which is not good.

>>148033
Blown out and underexposed. Would make a nice (subtle) HDR shot if you took a few exposures.

>>148035
Would look best cut above the horizon in landscape orientation.
>> Anonymous
i like the shots. seems like there is some stuff on your lens in the upper right corner.
>> I||ICIT !!mknjFN/v/49
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sorry for the late replies and thanks for the critiques.

AC, heres a copy of you, sorry but not willing to give out a full res, so ill give ya a 2k pixel version.

also, yea those marks are bad sensor dust, and the ones on the first shot are after the clone stamp/dust removal in DPP lol, not so flash, gotta get round to cleaning the sensor after all, one of these days.

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>>148369
>>Would look best cut above the horizon in landscape orientation.

yea, i tried that but theres a car and a bach hard left of that tree, you can just catch the nose of the car in the lower left side?

>>148137
hivemind anyone ;)

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>> I||ICIT !!mknjFN/v/49
shit, dunno whats happened but for some reason im getting some nutty shit when i try see the exif for my pics....
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>148749
That is not a copy of me. That is a small building. I know I'm not in the best shape, but I still don't think I look like a small building...