A vision of life by Ment

[Ment]

Hello, since this is my first post, let me introduce myself. I'm a 18 year old student in the Netherlands with a passion for photography.
Since I don't have large budget, I use a Fuji S6500fd aka S6000fd.

Please feel free to criticize

1. Going up


2. Labyrinthe


3. Little girls

[WoodstocK]

liked the first one most
don´t really have any crits right know... il try better next time

i think the second one, the first curve to the right (walking down way) it´s not "bleeding" and all the others are... so maybe u could try to crop them all inside the frame or all bleeding the frame just to try a more "proportional" thing...
something like what i did but i don´t like the results... maybe a re-shot do better...

[purplerose]

Pretty nice tones and composition in the first one.

[Ment]

@woodstock, thanks for the comment
Can you explain what you mean with bleeding?

@purplerose, thanks for your reply

I will add more photo's soon.

[Ment]

4. exotic

[Nike]

I like the first one a lot, too. Very nice atmosphere

With the last one, I'm not quite sure. I like the composition and I like the "feeling". It looks a bit like wind is playing with a few of the leaves.
It seems a bit overexposed, some branches are so white that they're melting into the background a bit too much - maybe that's matter of taste.

[Ment]

Thanks

I know the last one is quite overexposed, next time I will try to preserve more details.

[Ment]

A small update with 2 photo's from my archive:


5. snowy painting


6. Tree

[Ment]

Another update, I tried to capture the sunlight in this photo.

Crits are welcome als always

7. Beam me up Scotty

[purplerose]

Nice tones in that one.

Keep playing around with your compositions though.

Composition exercise for ya: Whenever you take a photo, try to take at least 3 photos of it with varying compositions and angles. Should help you a bit.

[samsite999]

your first and second photos are great. the composure and tone are great on them. your 3rd one is a little blurd and i think you were possably trying to hard to take a photo here. it just doesnt work
4 exotic has nothing for me. the tone is ok. i just done feel anything here.
5 another great photo. i would have proabbly gone for more of a aggressive crop here and taken out a lot of the wasted space at the bottom.
6 there is to much going on here. no composure. What am i supposed to be looking at?
7 i can see what you were attempting to do here. you did what you inteded but as a photo it just doesnt work

all the best... ME!!

Sam Oliver

[Ment]

Both thanks very much for your comments, they are really useful

@purplerose: I'm trying to mind compositions better each time I take a photo, I will sure try it next time

[Ment]

This time an update with some architectural photo's I collected the last months.

8. Inside out


9. Left as it is


10. Lines

[Ment]

2 days ago I went to town, here are some photo's I made there.

9. I want to ride my bycicle, I want to ride my bike (as long as you got the song from Queen in your head )


10. Travelling to ancient times


11. A little fighter


12. Drowning


13. See inside


And keep the crits coming

[VenomVindicta]

Holy crap some of these are immense!

Especially #5, i absolutely LOVE that one

Keep going, theres alot of potential here.(:

[Ment]

Thanks for the reply Venom, I will sure keep going

[Ment]

The weather was lovely, and when the weather is lovely....
Anyway here are 2 experiments from today.

14. Alien scape


15. Mc. Loud

[Ment]

Here is my weekly update, this time featuring nature.

16. Lonely


17. Composition of lines


18. Flowering


Crits are more than welcome as always, thanks in advance for using some of your time to look at my photo's

[Nike]

I love the colors in alien scape. That picture has a nice feel

I think in the last batch, all are lacking contrast a bit. 16 has nice colors, in 17, maybe it would be more interesting if the ladder would stand out more (wider open aperture)? from the background? But maybe only a little more contrast helps most.
Nice idea

Keep them coming!

[Ment]

@Nike, thanks for you comments, they are really helpful

I made my own IR filter, so here are some experiments from the local park.
Crits are very welcome here, I'm still getting used to this form of photography, it's quite difficult

19. Dreamscape


20. Blue and shiny


21. Snowwhite

[daedicurus]

i like the experimentation in your new ones IR filters are usually shot in B&W and its nice to see some coloured shots, (how did you make your own?)

[Ment]

Originally Posted by daedicurus

i like the experimentation in your new ones IR filters are usually shot in B&W and its nice to see some coloured shots, (how did you make your own?)

For me the color added to the atmosphere

You take two pieces of developped but not exposed dia film and glue them together. When you hold them in front of your lens, you get IR photo's.
Mr. Mu had a topic dedicated to IR filters and how to make them in the old forum, here you can find much information
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=95584

[purplerose]

21 and 19 have really nice moods. Good work . I'm gonna try out that DIY filter technique.

[Ment]

I experimented again with my IR filter, this time a little closer to home

22. Weeds


23. Sta(i)rs


24. Fantasy

[carolupus]

I really like 23. nice composition and that melancholic feel to it..

[purplerose]

I like 23 too, it's very surreal. I'm so psyched to try the IR filter technique though.

[thorshammer]

Some of these photos are great! I really love #'s 2, 10, 12, 19, and 23. #'s 19 and 23 have such a unique atmospshere to them that they really feel as if you are in another world.

Great Work!

[Ment]

Thanks all for your replies I'm uploading some other IR photo's soon, I really love this kind of photograpy.

[Ment]

It took some time, but here is another IR experiment. I hope you like it

25. A road to heaven

[carolupus]

wow!
yes, I like it. beautiful colours! that IR filter stuff looks very interesting to me