John McDougal Garden - across the road!

[Brightbear]

A few shots, let me know what you think.

[Brightbear]

for some reason I couldn't get more than one picture to load in the one post. (?)

[Heather]

easiest thing to do is load one picture, then click on reply to this topic at the top and add the next picture and keep going till youve added them all 

its because there is a restriction on file size on the images for each post. 

 

the only other way around it is to host your images on another site and put links to each image onto this site 

[NannyFerret]

Or use Photobucket and just post the link.

 

A nice bright shot and looks nicely exposed.

[bugmeister]

I was immediately caught by the chains framing and even echoing the gherkin and other buildings in the background. I don't know if it was deliberate but it made the image for me

[ChrisLumix]

I think it's a GOOD shot, rather than a great shot. It's hard to pin exactly why, but it may be that the subject requires quite a radical treatment, e.g. getting the camera right down low, or taking an ultra wideangle shot, or something similar. You're already halfway there I think - giving it a panoramic aspect which transforms the merely mundane into good.

[David]

This is a nice shot and it has a lot of interest, but I think the swing and the buildings are competing for attention, I find myself wanting to look at the buildings but my eyes keep focusing on the swing. Of course this is a purely personal and subjective view of it but I think maybe blur the foreground a bit so the framing is still there but the eye is drawn to the buildings. And quite opposite (for once lol) to Chris I think if you cropped it so that the trees were framing the shot it might work more too.

 

But that is a great location to live in, the gherkin building is one piece of architecture I would love to spend time on with a camera!

[fuzzyedges]

 And quite opposite (for once lol) to Chris I think if you cropped it so that the trees were framing the shot it might work more too.

 

 

I tried that and yes it does frame better but you loose the panaramic effect so its 6 of one half a dozen of the other

But I can see where you are coming from

[geodar]

I would have cropped to the trees, having a square shot but also I would have tried having the swing moving slightly, as if someone had just been using it and had jumped off. I think this would have add motion to a static shot.

geoff

[Korky]

The swing is placed a little too centrally for my taste, but I love the contrast between the quiet of the park and the city buildings.

 

Korky