I had a rare free day today and decided to go out early and take some photos. It was raining and overcast so I decided to head to this historic cemetery that I saw while running errands one day. Unfortunately, I didn't really love the way any of these came out, and even worse, I really don't know what I could have done better. Please critique. I would love to hear your thoughts...
REALLY critical? I would maybe have isolated one or two gravestones at low level and tried to capture ANY contrast in the sky. Maybe a change of perspective may have added drama, or you could have used the diffused light to get close ups of some engraving. Its tricky to critique without seeing the whole picture - HOWEVER its all subjective, im sure other photographers would have had their way. I think B&W for cemetery work is the perfect approach.
i love the black and white, adds a lot of atmosphere.
like craig said i would have isolated one or 2,maybe the row of 3 or got low down in front of the front one and made that the main focus with the others in the background, there's quite a lot of empty space in the bottom left
I love the tilted gravestone in the front. As Craig and Sally suggested, focus and angle will make a great difference to a shot. I think you hv to decide which subject you want the viewers to focus on. I would choose the tilted one as my main subject and shoot from a very low angle to create some dramatic and creepy feelings. Anyway, I'm no expert. Just love to hear provide constructive suggestions here. Thank you for sharing!!
i love the black and white...i think the only think that i would have done differently is taken the shot with the front gravestone in the far right corner of my camera and maybe added some shadows...but i think you did a grand job.. the other thing you could have done is gotten real close on the writing on those back three
I`m seldom satisfied with any of my pic. so I always take a lot of it with differant points of views and angles , sometimes blow up or cut out and at least one or two will do . How more I do it the more I learn of it and don`t need to do so and know in advance how it will looks like
@mcdougall@cpmitchell@sallycheese@pepitaliang@robinwarner@pyrrhula Thank you all so much for your honest feedback. I really appreciate it. It looks like the overwhelming opinion is poor composition. Now that you point that out, I completely get it. I will have to take a trip back and try again. Thanks!
@cpmitchell Very true. I am an engineer by trade, so I tend to think in terms of right or wrong. I guess the thing with this photo was I was really underwhelmed, so I was looking for feedback to make it better. Thanks for putting it in perspective. :)
May 18th, 2011
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like craig said i would have isolated one or 2,maybe the row of 3 or got low down in front of the front one and made that the main focus with the others in the background, there's quite a lot of empty space in the bottom left