some of my new favourites

Taken with pentax k10. Cropped, sharpened and 'colourized' in Lightroom on a macbook 13".

I'm happy!

And so you should be...

Nice shots...

too right! I like very much the tree shot, really brilliant details.

I agree,

the tree shot is great.. lovely tones throughout..

Cheers

Liam

love the monochrome one - great tonal values - what was your workflow? , think the other one is a bit too colured i'm afraid.

I like them too, but I cant let it go without finding fault, well not really a fault but something I think will improve the tree image.

Try cloning out the figure on the left just above the dog, that light patch just in front of that figure, that white spot on the right of the tree trunk and that white spot in the lower right corner, and move the dog to the other side of the tree.

I know it sounds like nitpicking but just do it and see.

I shoot in raw, using .pef at the moment. Download from camera to hardisk. bin crap shots. Import rest into Lightroom, bin crap shots.

Crop, if needed, adjust contrast, exposure. sharpen. change to mono, adjust colour if needed. export to web.

thanks for the critique, but apart from maybe cloning out dust spots from the sky, I don't really want to remove bits of any of my images, it's just not the way think or want to work.

I liked this pic just because the man and dog were separated.

Very commendable sir!, the "This is what I saw so this is what I took" approach, "I dont want to cheat"
I used to think like that myself, still do to a degree, but now work on the principle that its the final image that counts.

I would draw the line at moving the tree for instance, or shifitng the buildings around, but elements that could have been "moved around" by waiting for the right moment are in my opinion "fair game"

Please note that I wasn't trying to tell you what your images should look like, just making a point of what you could watch out for in the future to (IMHO) improve on composition.

Just try the cloning suggestions and see the change, you dont have to keep it (you might have a point about the dog though )

I think this is one of the crucial and most successful parts of the picture! Background echoing the forground. You find it a lot in Cartier-Bresson's work

I've tried that with a few images in the past, i found it an interesting exercise to get a sunrise in focus and also a foreground gnarly post in focus. I'm sort of pleased with the final image but.... I think I feel I have 'cheated'. this is not a comment on other people's images, just not happy to do it with my own.

I'n not averse to changing colours about quite drastically though!

No worries.

More images here: http://www.ba-joseph.co.uk/gallery/

I like both images - always wanted one like that of the Seven Bridge but how do you get it without being run over :

Well, this was taken through the windscreen. My wife was driving. I was snapping away.

Um.... yeah... well spotted, deliberate use of Cartier- wosname's echo technique.... yeah!

Good aren't I?

I didn't even notice he/she was there! I was watching the man and dog out walking together-separately.

I really like the bridge shot. Very punchy.

And the man and his dog is OK, too. Keep in the chap on the left, I say.

Keep 'em coming.

G