Advice on new photography
 

i have a photography project final that i have to do on a 6 image series. i chose to take pictures of buildings downtown and im pretty sure im done. i found my favorites and i still have some extras. i can do whatever i want in photoshop and im going to have to crop a few of them. can anyone give me any advice on what to do to them in photoshop to make them look better or any other advice? this is worth a lot of my grade so i want to do my best job possible. thanks and heres the link:

http://www.d-12.com/buildings/

Hey, thats Detroit

and you got the D12 domain, funny shit.

Try shooting night time shots at lots of different exposures. I do and then bound to get one right.

You have over exposed some of them. Don't be afraid to have the buildings dark, it's the play of the lights that make a good "City Nightime" shot.

Cool pics! :) You must be spiderman!

yeah thats detroit, i just got back from downtown (nothing like doing a 5 week project the day before its due)

and yes i have a d12 domain, i work for them.

yeah either that or i went to the top floors of some parking garages.

And you pick the nice safe area around the cop shop and the casino. hehehe Should have went up Jefferson a few more blocks and did some guerilla ghetto recon photography.

where can i find these? i'm pretty photoshop illeterate besides resizing pics, etc. i'm using photoshop 7.0.

Saturation = Control U
Contrast = Image - Adjust - Brightness/Contrast
Unsharpmask = Filters - Sharpen.

thanks for the advice paul. if anyone else has more advice im all ears.

Those shots are great in color, even more interesting in B&W.

Buildings and landscapes are perfect for high contrast black and white imagery. They become very expressive when you remove the color.

And portraits in black and white really convey so much more depth and personality to a picture. Here are two I shot that turned out perfect that way.

http://www.internetmanagementservices.com/bap3.jpg

http://www.internetmanagementservice...arlboroman.jpg

I love night shots! Here's an idea:

Set the F-stop so that you can shoot a 30 second exposure. Put the camera on a tripod, obviously. For 20 seconds of the exposure go stand in the photo. You'll look like a ghost in the actual image. Here's an example of my girlfriend and I standing in front of the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco at night (as ghosts):
http://dirty4free.com/night/MarkHopkins.jpg

Here's another example:

http://dirty4free.com/night/Cathedral.jpg

A few more night shots:

http://dirty4free.com/night/Ferrari.jpg

http://dirty4free.com/night/Tunnel.jpg

Lastly, an image taken around noon but looks taken at night:

http://dirty4free.com/night/Bella-0444.jpg

excellent pics DonovanPhillips... That ghost feature is amazing... gonna try thatone!

wow nice shots. i dont think my camera goes past 4 seconds. i took all those pics at 4 seconds because i needed it to get enough light into the picture.

image > rotate canvas > 90 CCW

:Graucho

just kidding they look great man - best of luck!

:thumbsup