Halloween Closing In! My Trip Through The Graveyard~~~

TybradTybrad Registered Users Posts: 46 Big grins
edited October 17, 2012 in Other Cool Shots
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Thanks for looking! C&C encouraged!

Tyler

Comments

  • rpcrowerpcrowe Registered Users Posts: 733 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2012
    Nice group of shots... I really think that #11 is very creative!
  • roscowgoroscowgo Registered Users Posts: 127 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2012
    I've been wanting to get out and about to play in some of the old graveyards around here. Ty for reminding me. Great pics.
  • Wicked_DarkWicked_Dark Registered Users Posts: 1,138 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2012
    I love small cemeteries like this. Fun stuff going on here. The shots through the fence are terrific.
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  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited October 17, 2012
    Hi Tyler
    You've got some great potential here and I'd like to offer some impressions and suggestions (all my subjective opinion, of course):

    The setting is wonderful and I'm jealous because such a setting is very hard (if not impossible) to find in So. California. We are very "new" out here.

    In general, these compositions feel a bit rushed and incomplete - some cramped, and some as though part of the picture is missing. (I'm sure shooting in a old graveyard is a bit of a different experience!)
    For example, in #4, you may have meant to emphasize the dead leaves, but, by including the cut-off outline of the headstone, it looks "in-between" to me.
    And, #9 has a lot in it, but because the fore-ground elements overlap the mid-ground in a portrait orientation, it feels cramped.

    Fisheye and geometrically distorted images are actually quite difficult to do well - for anyone - the question is always whether the effect is a net positive and makes the image better.
    I think with these, you have a near-miss - especially in #8 - the looming trees lend a "mood", but the graveyard portion is over-powered and under-lit.

    Lighting is, of course, a key element - especially in a graveyard!
    Although it is somewhat flat, the lighting is pretty good and the overcast condition is probably better than (full) sun - hopefully you can go back and get other combinations of time-of-day and illumination.

    Watch your crops - the white stripe at the top-left of #7 is distracting.

    Definitely some good material for B&W conversions - keep working that process.

    Happy Halloween! Watch-out for Spooks!
    Eric ~ Smugmug
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