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Please critique my B+W images
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I would appreciate it if a s many of you who can give me as much feedback on how I'm processing my B+W images ( this last lot as linked)
As you can see from the link I have been trying different approaches and I'd like to know which work best?
I know you probably can't link back to my individual images for reference but general comments would be much appreciated
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Re: Please critique my B+W images
Hi Simon,
I will check outb your site later on today (I am in wotrk at the mo so havn't got much time) and give you some honest/constructive feedback.
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Re: Please critique my B+W images
Dear Simon, that's an awfully big question to answer. There are images on your site I certainly like but there are just too many to give a serious reaction. Why don't you just post a few here on the forum now and then ? By getting into detail on one or two images you might find out a lot of things that can help you with the others ?
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Re: Please critique my B+W images
O thanks Leon , I will, it will take a while though because I have to make copies of those images then transfer them to a not-copy-protected gallery, then get the links etc.
I will do thid but also I don't really know where to start myself
Anyway I'll get round to it after my visit to Scotland tomorrow (i.e. in a bout a week)
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Hi Simon,
Firstly my first impression of the site. I think your banner (which is a really nice image) is a bit of a problem - it is quite a strong colour and this detracts from the B&W images that you are trying to showcase.
There is an awful lot of stuff on there. I get what you are trying to achieve but I am not sure it is the right approach. I gave up trawling through everything because I got as bit bored. I felt like I was looking through the entire download from your memory card trying to pick the nice one for you. This was reinforced by the info you have put on the site as well. I think you would be better off reviewing your self and then posting the ones you thought were good (and there are quite a few on there with real potential - MG_2942, MG_2904, MG_2898 - plus more I am sure).
I hope you don't think I am being too critical (I am trying to be helpful but honest) but I did feel that I had to click through quite a few average images before I came to ones that I thought were good and held my interest. If I hadn't got the link off your post here I probably would have given up earlier and missed out on seeing the ones with potential.
In essence my advice would be to be a lot more self critical and only post the images you love when you have edited them. If there are images that you are unsure about then post them into the forum. You will get the honest appraisal you want here.
Hopefully we will see some on here soon.
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Re: Please critique my B+W images
Hugh is right...for your showcase you need to put up your best images - use the forum to get critique to help in your decision...as I have recently been reading ' if it doesn't excite you why do you think it will excite me?'
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Re: Please critique my B+W images
Thanks Hugh and Crimbo
Point taken about the banner - hmm - but I gave my best B+W banner material to this forum!  lol!
I totally hear what you are both saying about my site and I'm entirely in agreement with you both, but unless I upload them all I can;t post links of them to this forum (_Martin - tim e to get a proper vbullitin setup?;-))
That aside it is excatly what i know I need to do but have a real problem critiquing my own B+W and so don't know which to exclude and which to include
Sometimes I kinda know what I was trying to do and am just not sure whether I have succeeded or not
I already trimmed those shots in that gallery down from nearly 700 -yup a bonanza shooting weekend!
Mind you a fir few of the shots were bracketed - I am still trying to understand the histogram on that camera and how that rlates to the final product. So Im not sure even that I have the best exposure on some of them
As you can see I tried quite few shooting direcly into the sun hoping to get the effect Martin gets i.e. the starsun when shooting at f22, but it doesn't work once the sun has started to set AFAICS
My problem has always been that I am a bit *dyslexic* when it comes to B+W
I have NO problem at all knowing whether a colur shot ois on the money or not, whetrher classic or artyfarty, but B+W is another matter
Not being funny but I get really disheartened about shooting B+W as I'm still very much in the dark as yto what Im looking for andwhat IM trying to achieve ) again colour no problems), so not knowing what IM trying to achieve makes it really hard for me to critique my shots i.e. I get confused when looking at them as to what works and what doesn't
thanks again for your comments I will try to trim them down
In fact I think I will move them to a 'hidden' gallery
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Re: Please critique my B+W images
Hi Simon
with regard to linking to images...if funding allows rather than use a photo sharing site try and find an ISP that allows you some disk space attached to your domain name - I use www.shetland.co.uk for obvious reasons. This way you can upload images that are not seen by anyone until you set the link in the forum.
As for our technique of bracketing...good idea to get the best exposure. I have a tendency to ignore the histogram - we didn't have it on the old film cameras - and tend to use the cameras metering and experience. Occasionally I will go full manual and remember the zone system and work from that. Remember most histograms are from the green channel of the jpeg thumbnail so are only a guide.
As for the 'dyslexia' with monochrome - don't worry, most of us have it. Many shots are thrown away including many pre visualised and made shots with bracketing and HDR. Martin is one of those lucky people that has latched in to seeing in B+W.
As for finding your style then I would argue that is what the monthly themes are for (listen up every one else as well  ) You take an idea, research it either from images you know in your head or from looking at others images, work out a plan of how to execute the image you want (try several times till you get it right) and then hopefully you will have learnt something and also you will have learnt how you want to portray images...several styles should hopefully develop.
Do not give up!
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