Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you. Getting to like you...

[aureliaaurita]

Getting to know you,
Putting it my way,
But nicely,
You are precisely,
My cup of tea.

Thanks everyone for the camera help. The Ricoh GR IV and I have been busy getting acquainted.

I have discovered I'm a bit crap at composing unless I'm playing with Macro, which is, admittedly rather easier than finding a spot amongst a landscape.

I want to try out that multiple exposure mode but really...not sure what I'd combine, perhaps some giant spiders creeping over buildings :angel:

Anyway, my first attempts with the thing.

1. The view from my office window. I am trying to remember not to cut my photos in half with the horizon line, honest.

2. A raindrop. Riveting stuff I know.

3. More raindrops (it rains a lot)

4. A confused bumble in November?!

5. Flower

6. Friend

7. Friend

8. Another friend

9. Friend with leaf

10. And a spider to finish

Anyway, we're having fun. I've taken lots more but shan't bore you further, so thank you everyone - the GR is still on the wish list but there it shall remain until such a time as I can justify it.

 

[Fuchs]

Love your 'friend with leave' pic. thanks for posting it.

 

[NaChase]

I like the portraits the best. They're candid and playful and well framed to boot. Now all you need to do is superimpose that spider crawling up the side of the Empire State Building or something.

 

[aureliaaurita]

ah cheers, and there I was thinking I could only do creepy crawlies 😉

 

[jonasv]

I know (3) has been done a lot before, but I really love the colors in this one, to the extent that I wouldn't mind having it on my wall. Which is good. Love the warm orange and then the blocks of blue, green, red; as if you specifically set the colors up like that. Feels very calming!

6 & 7: nice candids. The blacks are a bit too black for my taste. Mind you, I think every B&W needs pure white and pure black in it, but these really seem to lose too much detail in the shadows, if you know what I mean?

8, love how the light falls on him. The light and texture is perfect. I wouldn't have left so much negative space to the left side, though. I think it would have been more balanced if you had framed it slightly more to the right? (as a general rule, negative space should be at the side at which the subject is looking. Like any rule, that can be broken for effect, of course…)

9, fun shot like others have said!


Hope you don't mind my critique, I'm only doing it because I think that for some first attempts, these are rather excellent already! Hope you enjoy it!

 

[aureliaaurita]

not at all Jonas, and thank you, all taken on board.

I completely agree about the portraits being a wee bit too high contrast - I shall try and restrain myself in future.