Hong Kong Homework: Lei Yue Mun, Hong Kong (Please Critique)

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Last Sunday we went to Lei Yue Mun for a walk here is what I got.

I am really pleased with the results. All pictures processed from RAW in Lightroom and no sharpening applied.

Please tell me what you think.

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More to follow.
 
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All photos can be seen HERE.

Please critique (apart from the fact that I put a lot of photos!!!!)

Cheers
Max
 
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Some really nice images overall with a nice mixture of perspectives. I particularly like the colours you are getting - the blues are very striking!
 
A nice series of pictures Max.

Some opinions :

i. I would crop quite a few of your pictures to emphasize the subjects,
ii. The blue of some pictures is a little too much for me, and
iii. Your girlfriend is very beautiful.

BTW, which lenses did you use ?

cheers
 
Dingo said:
A nice series of pictures Max.

Some opinions :

i. I would crop quite a few of your pictures to emphasize the subjects,
ii. The blue of some pictures is a little too much for me, and
iii. Your girlfriend is very beautiful.

BTW, which lenses did you use ?

cheers
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Dingo,

Thanks for the comments. You are right about the cropping but I usually never crop my pics, I kind of think cropping is cheating:eek:. I guess I shouldn't have posted the boring photos.

I tried to get a Velvia effect on the pictures so I guess that's why the blue is quite striking on some photos!

And obviously you are right about my girlfriend!!!!!!!:D

For the lenses, I used a combination of CV UltraWide Heliar 12/5.6, CV Nokton 35/1.2, CV Heliar Classic 50/2 and CV Heliar 75/2.5. You can check on my Flickr which lenses were used.

PS: I am going back to France for holidays, I will be back in HK after the 18th August, I hope the weather will have improved by then and that we will be able to have a proper meeting.

Cheers
Max
 
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Very nice indeed. I like the way you spot for small details

I am curious which wide angle were you using for the shot with a girl fishing by the shore?

Do you think more detail can be retained if you stop down by 1/2 or even 1 full stop?
 
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Very nice indeed. I like the way you spot for small details

I am curious which wide angle were you using for the shot with a girl fishing by the shore?

Do you think more detail can be retained if you stop down by 1/2 or even 1 full stop?
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Pan,

I just edited my last post. I used the CV UltraWide Heliar 12/5.6 for the wide shots.
I guess yes, I could have more details, but I think lots of details are lost during the downsizing process of the file. The RAW file has a lot more details.

The UltraWide Heliar is an amazing lens but pretty difficult to use!
 
Very nice eye. Good photos.

Were you on the Hong Kong side? I seem to remember that cannon from some dim memory.


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Good job, I like a high % of them. I would take out the B&W ones as they kind of break the colorful, dreamy and wandering atmosphere of the set (though I also like them). I am impressed by the performance of Nokton 35 1.2 with M8. Your pictures definitely add points to the M8 in my long hesitations whether to buy it or not :)
As for cropping, I feel it is a necessary skill set to make great pictures. Creative cropping can do a lot to pictures.
 
I think Chinese photographers as a rule have the best color sense and eye for detail of any I've seen. The results are usually gorgeous and the perceptions are startling.

I use Google translator to browse Asian websites. It's sometimes slow, but you find some interesting things. Chinese (and Japanese) photographers are some of the most avid users of arcane and vintage cameras and lenses, and they appreciate the nuances.

Here's a couple of examples. (links are slow due to Google translation and you have to look on the bottom and click through the threads. Just experiment, you will be rewarded with fascinating images and equipment reviews.)

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://forum.xitek.com/showthread.php%3Fthreadid%3D338683%26pagenumber%3D1&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsilverfast%2Bai%2Bmicrotek%2Bcrack%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?h...+crack&num=50&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&sa=G

Here's image gallery and sub-forums:

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?h...+crack&num=50&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&sa=G

Direct link to site, no translation:

http://photo.xitek.com


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I wonder the same thing. My wife is native Japanese, absolutely no graphic training or previous interest in art or design.

One day she decided she wanted to make a blog about her life in New York and post her pictures. She didn't know a thing about html, web design, or anything else, but she kept at it doggedly for 3 weeks.

She showed the blog to me when she had some of it done, and it was absolutely, completely Japanese, no question about it.

The colors, design elements, graphic placement all screamed "Japanese", it was as if the whole thing sprung out of her head fully conceived.

I have a half-Japanese graphic artist who was born and raised in LA. Doesn't speak Japanese, completely American. He's a graphics and Photoshop genius, he can make anything look perfect and can get the "look" of something I want if I ask him, but he cannot get the "Japanese" look in a graphics ad when we need one the way my wife did with no experience no matter how hard he tries.

Everything he does looks like the "Peter Max" version of a Japanese graphic. He just can't do it.

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