Critique York, A Winter trip

[SFTPhotography]

Station Clock



Old house


Evening light on Cliffords Tower



Fire in the Sky

 

[dinners]

Something a little different from you Steve.

A god set but I really like number 1 - interesting plus good contrast and range of tones

 

[huffy]

I do like No 1, a gritty look to the image which works and also No 4 with the orange light inside the tower matching the Sunset in the background.

 

[Ulfric M Douglas]

I like "Fire in the sky", beautiful, great angle, great light. I even like the blocky shadows to frame the scene.

"Clifford's tower" has (to my eyes) awful colours, dull grass which seems skewed too blue, ugly cyan sky, maybe improving those regions will let the ruddy sunlight on the stonework shine through. How about a bit less blue in the grass, more in the sky?

The first two look like thoughtless snaps, maybe there's more to them than meets the eye at first glance? Maybe the clock one when printed large will bring out the man looking up as a central focus. Maybe crop the black blob from the very top. Maybe crop leftmost geezer.

"Old house" : weakest one for me by far.

 

[SFTPhotography]

I'll see what I did with Clifford's tower, processing wise. It was an odd day light wise, not seen light hit that tower like that before

Thanks so far for commenting

 

[Ulfric M Douglas]

With interesting pink light hitting the tower, maybe auto-white-balance did something funny.
(I don't know what files or settings you're using, see.)
Can you post a couple of crops from the "Clock"?

 

[gumbo-67]

Really really like these...

 

[SFTPhotography]

With interesting pink light hitting the tower, maybe auto-white-balance did something funny.
(I don't know what files or settings you're using, see.)
Can you post a couple of crops from the "Clock"?

I had it set to the cloudy WB. Is your monitor ok as the lights not pink, more a warm orange. All of these were taken on the same cloud WB

I'm away from the computer, I'll play with crops and post back.

 

[Dryce]

#1 really stands out.

The monochrome works.

The station and it's roof can be a bit of a cliche - this is different. It looks like there's an opportunity to be had depending on luck with the passing foot traffic.