How Good is my Photo..?? Discussion.. Any tips, Criticisms or Ideas Please..!!

Good picture Woo. Monochrome has given it that 'edge' which would have been lost with colour.

 

I have a cheap digital camera but find that I can vastly improve the end result by editing in photobucket, i.e. this process really compensates for the initial limitations. I tend to like a lot of colour so use the "saturation" facility a lot!

 

Everyone has their own taste Rosebay. I never alter a picture for any reason, I prefer to see them in there natural state and if I'm not happy with the quality it gets deleted. What would we do without digital cameras? When you think of how many we delete now and how much a roll of film cost us many years ago, you didn't dare waste a shot!

 

What is it about graveyards that attract me so much?

 

Well framed/composed photo. If you are anything like myself, then the reason I get
drawn to graveyards (or at least did so in my teens) is that they serve as a reminder of
our mortality and get us thinking about life's big questions.

Did you ever see the film "Harold & Maude" (featuring 2 people with this fascination).
It's cult viewing and the humour may be too dark for most people's tastes.

 

Another from 'Get down and dirty'

 

Not seen "Harold & Maude" but as I,m into researching our family history the attraction may be there. Plus, my love of photos.

 

@capney the first thing I noticed in your graveyard picture was the sloping church. The first thing I look for in photo's particularly my own is a level horizon, unfortunately it's something that bugs me. Not a criticism but a question......it's difficult when portraying something close (like your gravestone) whether the background horizon, or in this case the church should be the item levelled, what's your opinion please?

 

Perfect answer.

 

thank you Capney and Armandii for some interesting comments and useful info.
Jenny

 

That's an interesting reply Armandii, thank you. I've just gone back to study Capney's picture again. What's also interesting is that if the church wasn't in the background I'd be inclined to think nothing of it, even with the base of the trees in shot. They are a natural form and I would accept them if they leaned but something man made is different, I suppose because it's built upright (originally anyway) the eye expects to see it level.

 

Sheal, it never occurred to me that it was sloping. It was not the thing I focussed on at all.
For me it was
1) the flowers
2) the head stone, which I tried to read
Jenny
I get a bit paranoid about sea horizons though...

 

Lets have a chat about this picture. Monochrome flowers and of course a church. It,s a shame the crispness of the picture has been removed by the photobucket.