Madrid, first time in my life

[rudolf]

Hi,
I know there are many great photos of Madrid presented here, on this forum, anyway I want to share a small set of mine.
Not typical for me, as I do mainly in BW and square 🙂

I hope you'll enjoy - if you can comment it in any way, please do it. Recently on of my colleagues said I have to improve a lot my photographs (and didn't provide any details), so you know, maybe I'll get some feedback from you, guys.


_MSZ6411 by roderyk, on Flickr

Here is the whole set on flickr.

PS. BTW, the city is really great for walking and taking photos - even when you don't have much time (like me), and even if it's in the middle of January. 🙂

 

[umcelinho]

beautiful capture!

 

[rudolf]

Well, I wanted to say just "thanks", but the server didn't allow me to.
So: Thank you!
🙂

 

[easyrider]

Nice shooting! Not the usual tourist stuff. Captures the flavour.

 

[Haigh]

Thanks for these. I was in Madrid long ago and your pictures brought back some memories-good ones.

 

[35mmdelux]

Nice shots...

 

[lawnpotter]

Hi Rudolf. You asked for feed back so I can give you my fairly uneducated opinion. I wish some of your pictures were not taken with a wide lens, for example the lady and the moving train. I think the barber picture above is not bad, But I would like to see the walker in focus and maybe the barber shop people blured out. to me the walker is the central figure, what is he thinking ? where is he going? Does he want a haircut? others may disagree.

 

[lawnpotter]

Looking at the performer in the square picture, I didnt notice the dog before, but I notice him now and I kind of like the picture, but I wonder if a lot of the other information was nesesary in this picture.

 

[rudolf]

Thanks guys, I appreciate your voice!

The case of eliminating unnecessary information is something I'm still trying to improve. But - I really don't know why - I love this wide lens anyway, and almost every time I go shooting I take it mounted to my camera. 🙂

 

[bonatto]

You have some interesting photos in that set, some not so much. I think you can edit the set down to a tighter selection and make it a lot stronger. I like the wide shots and I like the very little bit of you showing up in some of them. I think this can be a specific series to pursue, where you put the reader actually in your shoes in a less traditional style of photography.

To me these are the best ones that work together:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roderyk/6831262897/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roderyk/6831261633/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roderyk/6831260831/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roderyk/6831261311/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roderyk/6831263197/

The last two could do with a little bit more warmth to fall in line visually with the other three.

Best!

Fred Bonatto

 

[rudolf]

Fred,
Frankly speaking I didn't arrange these photos - I just gathered them by tag on flickr.
But I like your suggestion, thanks a lot for that!
🙂