Hiya Matt,
First of all Happy New Year to you and may this year be as productive as your 2011.
Secondly, huge congrats on completing your 365 last year, you produced some amazing photos and best of all was the learning experience you gained from same which was evident in your photos and a true inspiration.
I'm apologise it has taken me a week to get round to visiting your new 366, it has been a hectic week. But I decided tonight that I have to put some time aside for Matt
Right looking at the past few days of the new project ....
Day 1: Great lead in line with the path, like the motion of the clouds, however the sepia effect seems a tad OTT and the image is a bit soft (probably due to the pp). However, I great idea to kick start your new project
Day 2: Hmmmmm
.... not sure about this one, I guess you were going for the 'miniature' effect, but I'm not convinced of same .... perhaps because the background looks a bit too 'plastic' to me. BTW is that a Subaru bottom left?
Day 3: WOW! This is absolutely amazing ..... and the quality of photography I expect from you now. The colours are awesome, the composition and lead in lines great, I like the bit of light flare and rays. Only slight niggle is there is a tad too much sky, so a slight crop of about an inch or so may benefit.
Day 4: Iron Brew is one of my fav drinks .... I'm not quite sure you have got the selective colour of orange right :shrug: and as for composition, I would have preferred slightly more dark space to the right and a tad off the top.
Day 5: Wow! I need my DG's to look at this ..... it is very bright and for me slightly +OE, especially on the whites. However, you have captured the detail of the glass well and I love the orange colour.
Day 6: Matt I am sorry to say ..... this for me is not one of your best photos (especially as you like it so much). It is not ticking the boxes for me :shrug: The verticals are slightly off alignment, the cross processing I don't think suits this image (and it may have been better portrayed in b&w, or perhaps a very delicate sepia tone). For me it looks a tad over cooked with pp, the sky doesn't seem real, the building has lost a lot of its detail and the bits of red around the headstones are quite distracting. I think this one is definitely a work in progress and a possible re-shoot.
I realise some folk may read this and think .... what the **** is this woman on ..... but you know me and I know you and over the last year I have followed your progress and learned a lot from you.
I say it as I see it, so don't take offence to the c&c ..... after all I am learning too.
Look forward to meeting up with you soon and following your project.
Good luck my friend.
Cheers
Dx
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