Project 52 by Nicola

[Nicola]

many thanks to all for your appreciations!

Malcolm and Rob are right, I do try to straighten the lines

thanks again
have a nice day
Nicola

[Nicola]

the same picture with distortion corrected



thanks!

[Rob Douglas]

That's it.

[Wendy Stanford]

Wonderful image, great DOF, composition excellent, makes a great B&W image

[jeechu1970]

Nice one again.....i like it

[Nicola]

ok,
it's week 4, but in the last 15 days I've not shot one single picture.....
so I was thinking to old pictures I captured and only stored in my HD. Doing so, I remembered a picture I tried to take having in mind the theme "travelling". After a quick research, I found it
I would like to have some feedback from you, it will be helpful for my goals here in project 52, since I'm not used shooting with a theme, and I've to grow about it.
many thanks!
ciao
Nicola

[Goldcoastgolfer]

I think it's an interesting photo but with all those brake lights it looks more like a journey that's stopped rather than a voyage. Is this the inside of a ferry?

Some interesting lines leading out to the exit - can you bring down the hotspot at all?

[Ryogenetic]

Gotta agree with Mal it is interesting, my first thought was not so much a voyage; but gladiators lined up at the door to the arena. Its the darkness, with the light hot spot being the way out perhaps a little claustrophobic? Or Perhaps I have seen one to many movies.

IMHO
Ryo

[Wendy Stanford]

It certainly shows a different perspective of cars lined up, I like the colours and the reflected colour of the taillights on the ground and roof, the light of the doorway is perhaps a little bright, as your eye is drawn to it immediatley, but I do like the diffuse lighting of the rest of the shot.

[Nicola]

I think it's an interesting photo but with all those brake lights it looks more like a journey that's stopped rather than a voyage. Is this the inside of a ferry?

Some interesting lines leading out to the exit - can you bring down the hotspot at all?

many thanks Malcolm!
your comment on stop lights is interesting, I didn't think about it in this way. I was in the ferry and it was the beginnig of my trip/holiday, so I felt myself as a F1 pilot when the start lights are going to become green... but now I can understand how a viewer can "read" the picture differently.
thanks for the feedback!

[Nicola]

Gotta agree with Mal it is interesting, my first thought was not so much a voyage; but gladiators lined up at the door to the arena. Its the darkness, with the light hot spot being the way out perhaps a little claustrophobic? Or Perhaps I have seen one to many movies.

IMHO
Ryo

thank you Ryo!
you are right, there is something similar to gladiators here! and it's similar to my feelings at that time!
as I said before to Malcolm, you showed me a different way to read the picture
thanks
ciao

[Nicola]

It certainly shows a different perspective of cars lined up, I like the colours and the reflected colour of the taillights on the ground and roof, the light of the doorway is perhaps a little bright, as your eye is drawn to it immediatley, but I do like the diffuse lighting of the rest of the shot.

thank you, Wendy!
I wanted the reflection on lens and the burned light in the picture: the light is the goal for all the drivers, "to escape" and "turn on" the travel. but as your comment suggested me, perhaps it should be smaller and farer away: I might shot from a more distant point, to have a longer line of car and a smaller light.
thanks again
cheers
Nicola

[Nat]

umpf..
I'm really busy this new year... And I'll be busy for a while....
I can't follow this community as I wish, and sorry if I haven't posted comments at the good jobs I've quickly seen in these days...

anyway I must find the time for my project 52
it is my second picture. Nothing to rave about, but at least i woke up early the last 6th of january to shot at sun rise!
thanks
Nicola

reprocessed according to Donlad's advices (thanks Donald!)

reprocessed according to Donlad's advices (thanks Donald!)

You have some wonderful photography so far, but this one is my favorite...I wish I could stand there and see that rough surf! Just beautiful!!

[Nicola]

something happened.... forced me to go out and shot!
so I'm here with fresh pics for my project 52
yesterday the snow falled down in my city, and it's a rare phenomena along this coast (even if we have many ski villages at 2 hours by car)
metering the light in these conditions have been quite hard for me.. never shot in the snow in the early morning...
here acouple taken in the same location of CW02 pic
thanks for viewing and comments!
ciao
Nicola

[Geoff F]

Yes, snow can be tricky to achieve a natural look, and I don't get much practice here on the UK south west coast.

But these have worked well, particularly the second photo.

[Goldcoastgolfer]

I never get a chance to take photos of snow due to where I live but looks like you've captured it perfectly. I like the second photo - I think the composition and the lines work well. With the first photo I find that some lines lead me out of the image to the top left corner while others lead me to the building on the right.

[Nicola]

thanks Geoff, Thanks Mal!
Mal, you are right, the line of the moulding at bottom left drive the eyes out of the frame excluding the building in the right... not good composition

[Nicola]

ok, I'm here once again
this week I practiced a bit of indoor photography: I tried to create a "natural looking" light with my 2month-old flash while photographing to one of my nieces, 18 month old. because of the subject, I tried to create a light similar to the "soft" light of a window with white curtain, positioned on her left.
I bounced the flash to the wall on my right, a bit behind me. Manual mode with FEC +1, by memory.

this is the result
any comments and criticisms?
thanks!
ciao
Nicola

[Donald]

I tried to create a "natural looking" light ........ I tried to create a light similar to the "soft" light of a window with white curtain, positioned on her left.

I think you have achieved your objective to a very high standard. The image looks as if it has been shot with only natural light provided by very large windows with light streaming through them.

That is a very professional use of flash. This demonstrates a high degree of skill and I compliment you for that.

[Goldcoastgolfer]

I think you've used your flash perfectly and succeeded in what you were attempting to achieve with the lighting. My only comments would be around the framing of your niece. The conventional wisdom being that you don't crop the lower legs it might be worthwhile to see how the photo looks cropped a little bit higher. I might be inclined to try and clone the bottle on the left out as well. A beautifully natural expression though