Rydels Photo Dump II

[rydel]

Hi guys,

I only just found out about this forum, thanks purplerose.
anyway, here's a link to my photo dump on conceptart.org to start off with. Any feed back, please post it here instead, cheers.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=114823

EDIT: Decided to chuck my stuff onto photo bucket

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/sam.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/valley-alley002.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/Valley-Alley001.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/low-tide.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/low-tide002.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/phoneguy.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/ff5-2.jpg

[rydel]

Here's a realy grainy portrait I shot last night for a friend. I couldn't get anything good out of my flash so I all I could do was bump up the ISO to 1600 and hope for the best.

[Nike]

Grainy or not - I like it - nice light.

I just took a look at the thread yu've linked to. Nice stuff, I totally love that huge mountains-panorama.

[Gentile]

I like the portrait.
The cats kind of blending in with the guy...but it looks kind of cool haha.

[purplerose]

Nice one. I didn't even see the cat until I read Miyuki's (Gentile) comment, lol... I feel blind now. :(

I think the highlights could be increased a little.

[rydel]

Hi guys,

me again. Here's one I shot today at lunch. Just some old dude sitting near us as we were eating.

[purplerose]

That one's pretty nice. :)

[Ment]

Nice one. I didn't even see the cat until I read Miyuki's (Gentile) comment, lol... I feel blind now. :(



I had exactely the same ;)

I like your last portrait, nice dof. The man looks like he is enjoying his meal.

[rydel]

here's a couple of shots i did over the week.
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/bunny001.jpg
Bunny
(this was taken at the brisbane supanova pop culture convention. she obviously caught sight of my lining her up for the shot)

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/singstar.jpg
SingStar
(This girl was realy getting into the songs at the singstar booth at the con)

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/liz001.jpg
LizCat
minus the ears

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/jez001.jpg
Jez
(here's one of my colleagues from work. he's got the cold dead eyes of a killer)

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/roddy001.jpg
Roddy
(another work colleague)

[purplerose]

SingStar and Jez are really great.

[rydel]

I went to a brisbane strobist group meeting the other day and here is one of the results.

sorry, i'll put it back up soon

[rydel]

Hi guys,

haven't posted in a looong time, that could be because I haven't taken any photos in a looong time. I took the day off work the other day and just wondered around town (Brisbane, Australia) and did a couple of shots. like with all my work, these have been photoshoped a little.

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/BRISBANEBUILDING003.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/BRISBANEBUILDING002.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/BRISBANEBUILDING001.jpg

[mollyduker]

1st picture of the last post:
Personally, I am not a big fan of the upper half, I think that it is too washed out compared to the bottom half that, in my opinion, is the much more interesting part. I would have cropped off the top half but am debating whether or not I think a little bit of the fence at the very top would help or hurt the composition. Secondly, I am not a big fan of the trash on the left hand side and would bring that border in. But I really like the bike and shadow.
Second picture:
I like the lighting on the building in the back alot, but I think they eye is not drawn any particular place, and as such a geometric picture, I think it suffers from a lack of center. I want to focus on the long line with the cross hashing on the back building but there is too much other stuff going on.
Third picture:
I really like the sky, but I find the lamp post to be too dominating.

Overall, I like your work, especially many of your portraits.
-Mollyduker

[rydel]

Thanks Mollyduker

I do tend to want to put too much into my images, probably stems from my concept work. I tried your sugestion and I do think it's improved the picture tenfold, but now the big dark shadow on top right is buggin me. Ah well, what can you do (I might have a go at reconstructing that dark spot with some photoshop magic, then again I might not).

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb92/rydelrydel/Bike002.jpg

[mollyduker]

You might try just dodging it a little in photoshop and see if that helps?