Well, for my exam I could pick from a few questions and I have chosen landscapes I like landscapes, so thats probably why! lol! Anyway, I went out this rather lovely evening (in class time ) to Fairhaven Lake to get a few test shots. Here are a few of my results. I have 'enhanced' the RAW files a bit

I love this in greyscale, it looks the poodles panties!

random sunset

Daisies!!!

sunset

brought a bit of the saturation up in this one...

And then changed it to night time lol

Over the sea wall

more greyscale loveliness

The lake and a little island

More sunset

And yet more sunset!

Have to agree with you on the first shot it looks amazing in B&W

Love the one where you turned it into a night shot.

They all look good though.

Well done, love the B&W shots. If you love sunsets you should come to Clevedon and get the sunset over the Victoian pier. In my opinion this is what we should be seeing in this forum classy shots not out of focus phone pics of car in a street!

Thanks guys I could spend hours taking pics and then messing with them! Wait....I do!

This is a better sea wall one I think...

really like the grey scale pics, very nice

must get out and take some myself

Beautiful pics there, top job.

very nice pics...

Thankyou

Loz if you do requests how would you feel about doing the first shot cropped to 1440x900?

Just a rough size for a wallpaper if you wouldnt mind ;)

Very nice. You need to think of the rule of thirds a bit with some of them - some of the upright ones, for instance, have a lot of bland foreground, without a good focal point to draw your eye away from it. Could be better with some of the bottom cropped off...

Cracking pics Loz, I love the one with the daises.

Davy

Very nice. You need to think of the rule of thirds a bit with some of them - some of the upright ones, for instance, have a lot of bland foreground, without a good focal point to draw your eye away from it. Could be better with some of the bottom cropped off...

If I'm honest not alot of thought went into them really I need a good few test shoots before my actual final piece so it will be good to be able to criticise them. It was a good scive out of college on a nice day

The upright ones was a bit of an experiment too, I have a book of landscape photographers, and quite a few of them do it like this. I hadn't tried it before but I actually quite like them that way. I will hopefully get somewhere more exciting than 2 mins down the road for my proper ones though! lol!

Looking at them the beacon one gets the rule of thirds perfectly haha! I can't remember if that was intentional or not? Hehe! If I'm honest, I go out to photograph "beauty" in whatever way I personally see it, I don't go in for following rules alot .... you may have already noticed this

This is a better sea wall one I think...

Wow. Thats an awesome picture.

Loz if you do requests how would you feel about doing the first shot cropped to 1440x900?

Just a rough size for a wallpaper if you wouldnt mind ;)

lol. It is currently my wallpaper too! I will try resize it for you

OK, well I can resize it but I can't think of a method to actually post it without it being resized again lol

1440 by 900.. Click on thumbnail. In window that opens up, right-click, Select - Save Picture as

1440 by 900.. Click on thumbnail. In window that opens up, right-click, Select - Save Picture as

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.....and some good piccys there Loz

Oops - just meant to do an 'Edit'

If I'm honest not alot of thought went into them really I need a good few test shoots before my actual final piece so it will be good to be able to criticise them. It was a good scive out of college on a nice day

The upright ones was a bit of an experiment too, I have a book of landscape photographers, and quite a few of them do it like this. I hadn't tried it before but I actually quite like them that way. I will hopefully get somewhere more exciting than 2 mins down the road for my proper ones though! lol!

Looking at them the beacon one gets the rule of thirds perfectly haha! I can't remember if that was intentional or not? Hehe! If I'm honest, I go out to photograph "beauty" in whatever way I personally see it, I don't go in for following rules alot .... you may have already noticed this

I wasn't trying to suggest you should be hidebound by rules, Just that some of them could do with some thoughtful cropping, or different composition at shutter point.

The sea wall one UncleRic liked is good because it has a focal point (the sun - or two - the sun and the end of the wall, and they're nearly coincident) and a natural lead in (the wall). People subconsciously like these things

The daisy one would have been great with a fisheye lens! (it's still nice, btw)

Cheers me dears

and a natural lead in (the wall). People subconsciously like these things

Ah, now I did do that on purpose to bring you in to the shot

Yea, I don't have any fancy lenses :( Still just my 18-135, which does me fine 99% of the time....never got round to buying a new one yet....

Great Work Loz - Looking good (The Pictures)....

Excuse my numptieness - what is the difference between black and white and greyscale? :confused:

Nice piccies though...

Nice piccies Loz - shot on location at Fairhaven Lake ?

Excuse my numptieness - what is the difference between black and white and greyscale? :confused:

On film, nothing. "Black and white" film is actually greyscale.

In digital terms, greyscale has tones of grey, not just black, and white. True black and white would be 1 bit per pixel, either on or off. Greyscale is as many as you like, just like colour, giving you a range of tones. If you had 8 bits per pixel, for example, you'd have 256 shades of grey.

Grayscale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Look at the three pictures of the fence and the warning sign, half way down.