Hello! what do you think about those pictures?

Question

The links:

http://www.alsapresse.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=toprated&cat=10062

http://www.alsapresse.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=topn&cat=10062&pos=5

http://www.alsapresse.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=topn&cat=10062&pos=19

http://www.alsapresse.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=topn&cat=10062&pos=30

Please excuse me if i make mistakes, i don't speak english very well

Answer 1

Group 1
The couple is good.
I might have gone with a little less depth of field and a tad more foreground. It looks to me like it was taken very close and feels posed.

The hotel:
I like the angle and overall effect.
I think it would have been more interesting if the sky was darker or the buildings to the right of the hotel had more detail. Instead, one is too light, and the other too dark. This would have been a good place to put Ansel Adams' Zone system to use and gotten more tonal range.
You might try printing it on lower contrast paper.

The Bird.
It's overexposed. The highlights on the bird are blown out so that there's no detail -especially in the upper body. Perhaps you could have fixed this in the printing - somewhat.
The worst part however is that the bird's eyes are out of focus.
Eyes (and noses where applicable) should always be in focus so that we can look the subject in the eyes.
Had the eyes been in focus instead of the feet, I might have overlooked the over-exposure.

All three had dust or hair on the negatives when printed.
It's most obvious in the hotel near the words chalked on the side, as we are drawn to that or the hotel sign as the subject.
Also fairly evident in the woman's dark hair.
Barely evident in the bird print.

Group 2
The flower photo.
The part that is in focus appears to have nothing special about it - versus the part that's out of focus. I would have liked to see whatever was on the right and white or silver colored which appears different and is almost in focus. I feel that there is way too much of the unfocused plant present. Especially given the uninteresting bit that is in focus.

Au coeur de la Brume (The posts)
I really like this one! There is only one hair on it.
For this subject, I think you might have done better with a film other than HP5. It's contrast range is on the low side, and in this print, there's nary a true blacks to be found. I find it a bit grainy for my tastes. If it were a moving subject and you had to use HP5 (probably pushed here) - such as on the bird - that would be one thing, but it looks like you had time to set up a tripod - switch to a finer grain film, and have a sandwich also.

The trees in the snow.
I like this also, it's interesting.
he receding rows of trees give it depth and focus, and the foreground plants help keep the viewers eyes centered. Without that, they would be staring up at the leaves and it would be too top-heavy.
However, I wish that the trees - since they comprise the bulk of the background and provide the narrowing in the distance effect in this photo - were in focus. The are not far enough out of focus to be a background blur, and I think that they provide an important element in the picture and this should be in focus.
This would be a fine small print.

The large fancy building ( Beauté intemporelle)
This would be my favorite so far.
The angle is great, as is the contrast, and exposure goes - I could even handle the grain - in a small print.
I wonder slightly if this building has a top or a bottom? But that's OK.

Ephémère Un instant volé Legs and shoes
Well, there's no dust or hairs on this one. The exposure and focus are good. Other than that, it is boring and I would have not given it a second look - had you not asked.

Group 4 (I skipped ahead)

The voitlander closeup. This one is boring also - unless your name is "Voit" and you're trying to forget you were once a "Lander"? I'm guessing, since voit is the only thing in focus.
If you were a big Voitlander fan, it might be a little interesting, although you might want the whole camera...
The only purpose I can think of for a photo like this is to show how close you can focus with a 1mm depth of field.
However, this has the contrast range that was lacking in the others. The grain is still very large, and as the object of a macro photo is Usually to show the details, it looks like a like a very roughly-hew camera.

Well, that's all the time I'm going to spend on this.

You either really, really like grain or that was your assignment.
Grain has been done by everyone - and deliberately for the last 75 or so. You should save it for those occasions when it serves a purpose.

OK. I looked again...

Group 3
The watch Le temps qui passe
See the voitlander, although the grain is less noticible in this shot. - even the upper-most part is not quite in focus.
This also has low tonal range, but I'm not sure what you were attempting to to say with this photograph, so the tonal range does not effect this particular photo.

That glass thing. Joyeux noel!
Good tonal range. Interesting red tint surround.
Very good except for slight blur from either camera motion or object motion make it impossible to tell for certain what the black bottles say or how the one on the left is decorated.
Was this perhaps a color shot that was changed to black & white? The grain is much better.
However, given the motion blur, this is the time you should have used HP5 at ISO 3200 to perhaps get you to a faster shutter speed.

The red christmas ornament.
A very good shot!!
The snow on top of the ornament is the icing on the cake for this photograph.

Answer 2

They seem at least technically proficient, but they're oddly impersonal and disconnected. I don't know if that's what you're going for. Sometimes it looks as if you are trying to be Henri Cartier-Bresson, but other times not; your style is a bit inconsistent.

Do you like that Ilford Delta 3200 I saw in some of your photos? I love that stuff.

Answer 3

Like them all but not the bird, but thats just because Im not a bird person.
Tres bien. x

Answer 4

pretty interesting and nice to the eye

Answer 5

eww try Google it. and turn off the safe search LOL

Answer 6

beautiful pictures.. what camera do you own?? i'm totally jelous! haha


and your english is fine!