Critique Welcomed Raining London

[Jim Kuo]

(Cropped a little on the top as per Pete's suggestion)

And finally a little sunshine in the afternoon...

Naruto! (A Japanese manga character whom I quite like)

Thanks for looking.

Jim

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Like the first a lot - very moody.

 

[Paul Lange]

I know that feeling, it's been raining all week. Absolutely hammered it down yesterday when I was driving home from work as well. I do like that first one Jim, as Rob said it's very moody.

 

[Jim Kuo]

Thanks Rob and Paul

 

[Darren Turner]

yup they work for me, at first i thought the first to be a little dark........but i guess its adds to the atmosphere and moodyness of the shot.

Keep up these street photography around London............i for 1 defo enjoy looking at them

In fact i feel a visit coming VERY soon

Daz

 

[Lesley Jones]

I too love the first one. Well done!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Jim - lovely atmosphere and great observation in #1

Hope you don't mid, but the subject and the weather, just cried out for a B&W version

What do you think?

 

[Jim Kuo]

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

Thanks Chris for the example of the B/W conversion. I think it's great to see examples that illustrate alternative interpretation of the same scene from other photographers.

Seeing the world though this particular glass panel, it naturally produced a muted and slight blurry effect which I wouldn't imagine of creating. So I was pleasantly surprised, and the photo was left pretty much as it was, except cropping and distortion correction.

 

[Brian Moore]

Agree with Chris on the BW. Also, very good shot, Jim!

 

[Pete Askew]

Very nice Jim and I'd stay with the colour version myself. I'd be tempted to crop out the black at the top though. Like some of Brian's shots, this reminds me of the work of Saul Leiter. There's a retrospective of his work on tour at the moment - not sure when it is coming to London though.

 

[Jim Kuo]

Thanks Pete, it's a good point about the crop, now I've looked at it again, I wonder why I didn't crop the top black border out in the first

 

[Pete Askew]

PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK

 

[Hamish Gill]

That first is an absolute beauty Jim!