Graffiti.

[andymartin]

I took this at about 7 in the morning beside a river in the freezing cold.

[andymartin]

I would really appreciate some critique on this. I need it.

[n8]

I'd be interested to see it in color...unless it's black and white graffiti ;) It's pretty centered, perhaps a wider angle showing more of the scene would be good.

[Adamo]

I think it would benefit from some straightening and I would like to see the color version as well.

[Neous]

I think it would benefit from some straightening and I would like to see the color version as well.

+1
I want to see in color to understand how the tagger chose to improve the view of that wall/canvas

[armando_m]

Maybe rather than shooting straight on, if you can try reshooting this side ways. I would use the graffiti as something in the foreground and try to get some of the bridge in the background

and I also think this may seem more interesting in color

[Anbesol]

black point needs to be raised quite a bit, the converging lines are way too close to the top of the composition, overall composition seems too ordinary/square, black and white graffiti seems sort of counter-intuitive, could be sharper.

[dancer]

This isn't very exciting as a B&W to me and most graffiti involves such great color. I don't see why you would want to take it out. There should be some kind of element to the story that a mono would somehow enhance. This is composed well enough but not terribly interesting as it is.

[popeyethesailor]

A couple of comments on composition. First - picture isn't level. If you intended it to be at an angle, go bigger so that it doesn't just look like a mistake.

Second - consider getting down low so that the boardwalk provides depth and leading lines into the graffiti, makes the picture look less two dimensional

[GB1]

Agree with Popeye that getting lower would add a new perspective. The choice of B&W is interesting here because the graffiti is probably in color, so we miss that, but the B&W is different and makes you wonder what it would look like in color. However, has Charlie pointed out, it needs more black. It also doesn't look sharp enough to me: this could be a resizing issue, so make sure you sharpen up the image as much as you need after resizing. Finally, I do like the way it 'dead ends' on the wall, but somehow, it seems to be missing something. Not sure what ..

G