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Vacation Pictures - Would appreciate critiquing
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You all probably saw my post in OT about our trip to France but Id like to post a few photos her for critique. I ended up snapping over 2,000 pics and uploaded 355 to a Flickr album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/95474106@N02/sets/72157652768361414
Here are a number of my favorites. I was shooting in manual mode for almost every item uploaded. I believe the info is shown on the Flickr page.
Nikon D7000 with Nikkor AF-S 18-140mm
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 France 2015 by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
I know this is somewhat a duplicate post but Im really interested in improving and know we've got some super talented photogs in here. Looking forward to what you all have to say. Please check the link for additional pictures. I left out quite a few other good ones.
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Duc
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(Post Master Supreme)
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06/30/15 02:08 PM
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Re: Vacation Pictures - Would appreciate critiquing
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i like some more than others but the best thing that I can say is to stay with it and keep shooting. Look at some people's pictures that are shooting the same types of things that you are (architecture, scenery) and study how they shoot and post edit.
for me, I studied nate's work along with chef's work (along with one other company ) to find out how I wanted my photos to appear to the viewer. I'm still somewhat off from a solid style but that's to be expected
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chef
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(Post Master Supreme)
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07/01/15 11:13 PM
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Re: Vacation Pictures - Would appreciate critiquing
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Man that's a great set of vacation photos! A few there that I'd tweak to straighten out, or fix some skewing, The first I'd play with rotating a little clockwise, but you might lose too much. Then the one looking down the hall I'd skew a touch, along with the one after it of the guy in front of the tall yellow doors, same thing. The castle with the roses in front and the out of focus castle, the black and white castle above it with the straight on shot and the dirt path leading to it, the painter, straighten that a bit. The very last shot I'd open up the shadows a bit. Nice tone on the sky, if you can open up that bottom to get a little more detail it'd be nice. There's some great use of leading lines and composition, framing is good. You've got a good eye for the little scenes you encounter. Looks like a great trip!
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Re: Vacation Pictures - Would appreciate critiquing
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Also - do you guys do anything special when creating a B&W photo? For some reason, I really enjoy the B&W chateau pics and those are straight from the camera just desaturated and slightly upped the contrast.
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chef
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(Post Master Supreme)
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07/02/15 10:51 AM
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Re: Vacation Pictures - Would appreciate critiquing
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I use Nik Silver Efex, but you can get similarly great results with a Black and White adjustment layer or the Channel Mixer http://www.lightstalking.com/how-to-use-...d-white-images/
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Re: Vacation Pictures - Would appreciate critiquing
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How does that give different results than simply desaturating a picture?
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chef
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(Post Master Supreme)
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07/02/15 12:44 PM
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Re: Vacation Pictures - Would appreciate critiquing
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You're controlling how the image turns out. Desaturating is a rather poor way of doing a black and white, as it tends to be rather flat. The digital black and whites you see that knock your socks off are likely never going to be just desaturated. Rather then just letting colors turn into percentages of light to dark, you're controlling the importance of what is light and dark, where the contrast lies. It's like all editing, it's your personal taste and artistic preference, but especially with black and white since we don't see it naturally, you're calling back an emotion, how you felt when you saw it, and how you want your viewers to feel. It's not really a technical explanation of why it's better, but hopefully it makes some sense.
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Re: Vacation Pictures - Would appreciate critiquing
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Ok, downloaded Lightroom and got to work doing some B&W tutorials and how to use Lightroom. Thoughts?
 DSC_2178.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_1717.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_1895.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_1155.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_1865.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_1641.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_1863.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
And my edited color photos:
 DSC_2190.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_0457.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_2069.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_2068.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_0423.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_0459.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_1356.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_1429.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_1457.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_2090.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
 DSC_2132.jpg by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr
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