Goodbye Old Theatres: One Down

[Don Schaeffer]

[polarbeardiggers]

I like the second shot,but when you go from the first to the second it seems tilted,the building in the background is tilted to the right along with the light pole in the front,i think if you used the side walk as a reference point you could have straighten it ,but thats what distracts my eyes from the shot, and not sure what your target was here,title for old building, yet my eyes take me to the sign and the walking pedestrian running out of sidewalk. I must this shot is very busy, compared to the first one that seems to lack.

[Don Schaeffer]

gotcha. Thanks Digger

[EOSThree]

Hi Don, glad to see you are enjoying your new camera. In the first shot, I would like to see something identifying the subject as a theater. An old marquee?, an old poster? some old handbills...

I have noticed in a lot of your shots with your new rig you are having some trouble with the horizon. Your second shot exhibits this. You are at an angle to the sidewalk, therefore it will not be level, but the lamp post should be, and the building behind it should be. Use your focus points horizontally and vertically to line up on lines that you know should be level. Look around at the whole frame before you press the shutter for clues of where the horizon is.

Finally, I miss some of the abstract post processing that you used with your old camera. It seemed garish and strange to me at first, but as you persisted with it, that look became a definite style. I started liking the photos as art more that slices of life. Not saying that you should do this with the Nikon, but you definitely had a unique style with your Kodak.

[Don Schaeffer]

Tanks EOS. I'm working on it.

[yairh20]

The first one is ok, although it lacks any thing that identifies it as an old theatre.
and the second one, IMHO, looks like a regular snapshot.

[Don Schaeffer]

Thanks for looking, Yairh