Critique Welcomed Street/architectural.

[alfie Wright]

I'm wondering if these are more architectural than street images? A couple more from the new part of Kings Cross Station on my recent trip down to the London Festival Of Photography, which was a great day out! Anyway ...



The Bridge... by alfie2902, on Flickr




Under The Bridge... by alfie2902, on Flickr

 

[Rob MacKillop]

The future looks amazing! What? That's now?!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Very cool - like the leading line from the corner in #1

Will have to check this new building out when I'm in Blighty

 

[Mike Webb]

Neither one does it for me. The B&W conversions are very good, very smooth and full range. But the composition in each case seems a bit too complex. I can't work out how to express it properly - you've got curves and they lead the eye nicely but where does the eye actually get to. It's frustrating as I should be liking them a lot more, I know I should.

In the second one is there are an image within an image bottom left corner just keeping the two gents and sadly losing the big sweeping curves to the left?

Mike

 

[Hamish Gill]

You certainly seem to be nailing the b&w conversions ... The tonality is really nice, not to flat and not hard!
Excuse me if I'm a bit behind, but are you still using LR2?
The only issue in the pp is the greying to the white bottom right in the second, looks a little flat I think...

In terms of compo, I sort of agree with Mike
the issue with the first is the eye is lead to a half person and the right hand foreground could do with a person ...
The second feels a touch heavy to the right hand side ... It maybe needs more made of the reflective surface to give it more reason to be so prominent

Thats not to say I would have done any better ... I can definitely see what you were going for! Leading lines are often more tricky than they initially seem in these sorts of places I think!

 

[alfie Wright]

Thanks for the kind comments & the more constructive ones!

That's what I like about here, the constructive crit, can be learned from. Flickr & the other sharing sites I queit enjoy, but they seem an exercise in back slapping, which is very nice, but you don't really learn anything from others comments!

I think I got the images that I deserved, In that I was enjoying the building that much that I didn't really know what to try & capture & I think that shows in the images! I ended up just enjoying the shape & the way the light enters the building & then tried to compose the shots with to many ideas going through my head & ending up with a bit of a mismash. I do like the images for the shapes & lines, perhaps in an abstract way, but I see why the images don't quiet work aswell as perhaps they could of with more thought.

Yes, Hamish still LR2. I'm still learning lots & mostly still only adjust globally rather than much local adjustment.

Thanks for the input. It's a lovely building IMO, so I'll probably go back & try again at some point!

 

[Brian Moore]

I like 'em, although I can see what Hamish means about the 1st one needing a foreground person. Also the half person should be whole (or else non-existant). But it looks like a hard place to decide what to shoot!