Skate park

[Nijip]

This is my first photo posted so be nice. Image of local skate park with some great concrete shapes.

[Iguanasan]

Love the tones in this B&W. Nice work Nijip. Welcome to the forum. I hope you are enjoy your stay.

[tomorrowstreasures]

The only thing i can see that may need a wee bit of adjustment is the top prop looking thing... maybe a bit of lightening it up
i like the sculptural aspect of it too!

[Barefoot]

Very well done. This shows a degree of creativity and I like it a lot.

[merman]

nice shot! i love the contrast and the vignetting, the only real problem i have with this shot is the corner of the manual box at the bottom of the picture, it looks to be at a weird angle and IMO is very distracting. But i don't want to see it go, maybe if it was shot at a lower angle, and centered the corner,the lines might work a little better and you could get a dof that would create eye flow to all those lovely shapes in the background. i feel it would improve this shot greatly.
but still not a bad shot by any means! Its perfect to have a skater overcrook that rainbow rail! (sorry i am assuming you shoot skate, if you don't that was all gibberish!lol)
good job and welcome to the site!

[Nijip]

Thanks for the advice folks. I'll try some dodging and burning... which i learnt from a previous podcast and see if i can improve it.

[Marko]

I like this shot. Great shapes and graphic quality.
A couple of things struck me right away.
- Parts of the image are a bit dark and would benefit from levels/curves play and dodging.
- Because the image is so graphic I think I'd like to see even more sharpness throughout. This may have been best chosen by the smallest aperture possible.
- I'm not sure the bottom half of the photo is as strong as the top half; my eye seems to linger at the top half
- The shot is slightly crooked.

It's still a strong image but I think some more PP play could make it even stronger.
Hope that helps - Marko