Afternoon in Central Park

maegandougherty

Today after work I walked to Central Park and spent an hour there just walking around, listening, watching and shooting. There really is nothing like it! Here are a few of my pictures. Comments and constructive criticism are welcome. I'm trying to learn! :thumb













The rest are here. Thanks for looking!

W.W. Webster

maegandougherty wrote:

Here are a few of my pictures. Comments and constructive criticism are welcome.

Number 4's a killer!

gluwater

Maegan I like the first two the best. The colors in the first are pleasing to me and I really like the composition and DOF on the second. Overall I think the shots are a bit soft and the last one looks OOF to me. The first shot I think would look better if the building was off center and a tighter crop. Try cropping out some of the top and the left to have the building in the upper left. The second shot could use some selective sharpening on the flower and a little of the stem, don't sharpen the entire shot or you will just be adding unneeded noise. I took a look in your gallery and liked the shot with the lamp post in it. Since there isn't to much color in it to start with it I think you should try a B&W conversion, I think it would look good like that. Hope this helps, it's only one mans opinion though.

Angelo

gluwater wrote:

Maegan I like the first two the best. The colors in the first are pleasing to me and I really like the composition and DOF on the second. Overall I think the shots are a bit soft and the last one looks OOF to me. The first shot I think would look better if the building was off center and a tighter crop. Try cropping out some of the top and the left to have the building in the upper left. The second shot could use some selective sharpening on the flower and a little of the stem, don't sharpen the entire shot or you will just be adding unneeded noise. I took a look in your gallery and liked the shot with the lamp post in it. Since there isn't to much color in it to start with it I think you should try a B&W conversion, I think it would look good like that. Hope this helps, it's only one mans opinion though.

mr peas

all the photos except the first one came out really blurry on my monitor. maybe your exposure lenght were too long or you just didnt keep the camera as steady as you could have.

im no pro, but i think as long as you keep on shooting, the more you'll learn. so keep shooting!

maegandougherty

Thanks for the replies. Will definitely try those ideas when I get home from work today. And maybe I'll go back to the park today to try again!

maegandougherty

I made some changes to #1 and made the lamp post shot B&W. I like #1, but the lamp post shot doesn't really do anything for me.

I will have to read up on selective sharpening!

gluwater

I agree with you Maegan on the new images. I like what you did with the colors in the shot with the building. Now all you have to do to that shot is replace the sky :uhoh. If you want to learn how to do that check out the reading group on Katrin Eismanns book [thread=29443]Photoshop Masking and Compositing[/thread]. Or if you have any questions I could walk you through it. For a good tutorial on selective sharpening Rohirrim has a link in his sig that takes you to a gallery of his. It is right here. Check it out.

maegandougherty

Thanks, Nick. I read up on selective sharpening during my bus ride to work and will try it out when I get home. I don't really understand layers yet, so I need to figure that out. I brought my camera today, so stay tuned for Central Park in the Afternoon Take II!

DJ-S1

maegandougherty wrote:

I brought my camera today, so stay tuned for Central Park in the Afternoon Take II!

Fitting, since today is Frederick Law Olmsted's birthday. Enjoy your walk through his park.

maegandougherty

DJ-S1 wrote:

Fitting, since today is Frederick Law Olmsted's birthday. Enjoy your walk through his park.

Interesting! I just checked the CP website to see if there is anything special going on, but it doesn't look like it.