Highway Abstracts

[PlantedTao]

Please critique and comment on these three photos.
Ilford 400 B&W, Yellow #8 Filter.

Thanks for the help.

[OldSchool]

Hey Tao,
Nice shots of a hard subject (hard for me).

In the first one, have you tried cropping out the right structure. I think it would provide a nice juxtaposition. You may have to do a little sky cloning above the tree.

I like the last one and think it would present better if the legs were vertical. Might be something you could do in PS.

BR,
Tim

[dadas115]

I think these are really neat. I think black and white really strengthens these pictures a lot. The lines are very nice and the contrast is very bold. I think the first one is my favorite but I wonder what it would be like without that object on the right. On the last shot I think I might want to see more light areas as I think the picture might be a bit too dominated by dark areas for me.

Greg

[jar_e]

I think these are really neat. I think black and white really strengthens these pictures a lot. The lines are very nice and the contrast is very bold. I think the first one is my favorite but I wonder what it would be like without that object on the right. On the last shot I think I might want to see more light areas as I think the picture might be a bit too dominated by dark areas for me.

Greg

Greg,

Couldn't agree more. The first shot would look great if you cropped it on the right edge of the tree. Other than that nice b/w work.

Nice,

Jared

[Dzerzhinski46]

Dear Tao,

You have a very nice set here. The one I like the most is the bottom right one (the freeway curve closer up, hope that makes sense ). I like the big curve cutting through the frame. The picture is also nice in that it doesn't say "freeway" at all. You did a good job of directing attention away from what it is, to what it seems to be. It is actually quite beautiful now that I look at it. A very good job.

Dzerzhinski

[PlantedTao]

Thank you all for the positive comments. Photo #1 and #3 were my favorite pictures from this roll of film.
Jared, Greg and Tim - I will try the crop as you have suggested, but I'll have a hard time getting rid of that pillar. ;) I really like it as something graphic to balance the photo and I also like it because it is a portion of highway that is a dead end.
I glad every one like the contrast on that picture, I was worried it would be too much.
Dzerzhinski- I glad you like that photo...I was wondering which would be more pleasing the 2nd or 3rd photo. Thanks for helping me decide

Thanks for all the help! Cheers.