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these are just a few, don't want to litter the post right away, but I have plenty more to post if wanted. Thanks in advance for your time

you dont really need THAT much contrast

>>2954821
the shadows are too dark to see anything, the highlights are too bright to see anything

>>2954822
the contrast works quite well in this one theres nothing really wrong with it

>>2954823
this is composed well and has interesting subject matter, but the focus is too much off, and its at a slight angle which is off putting (and you have no excuse for that really since youre shooting at 1/15 s at 55 mm youre surely using a tripod)

>>2954821
overprocessed, blurry, lanterns in the background are fucked. Uninteresting composition. Cropped a little too close at the top and bottom.

>>2954822
Ease up on the clarity slider, man. Also, you fucked up the highlights in the kid's face. Boring composition, boring photo.

>>2954823
Composition is alright, subject could stand out more. Image could be sharper.

They're okay photos, but nothing really good. Work on your composition, take a lot more photos, and work on your post processing skills. Try to start with only corrections, not stylistic changes. And if you do, do it subtly.

Try to get it right when you take the photo, and don't try to polish turds.

>>2954821
>>2954822
both needs tighter cropping.
I suggest making the first one a portrait oriented photo cropping away the black parts on both sides as they don't contribute at all to the subject.
the second one you can crop in closer for a much cleaner photo as putting the red fire hydrant on the edge of the frame is very distracting.
also as the other anons have mentioned ease up on the post processing, too much saturation is rarely ever flattering for street shots IMO.

btw Hoian is such a photogenic city huh, I have a very similar shot to the one in the OP from earlier this year, might even be the same lady lol

Also, post more images, OP.

Cheers so far for the criticism. I am at work right now so I will post more and my responses when I get home.

>>2954825
Thanks for the feedback. I agree, I am extremely heavy on the contrast in a lot of my photos... I just need to find the right balance... as for the third photo i wasn't using a tripod, shooting handheld haha

>>2954827
Yeah, i never really use my camera as much as i should but thanks for advice. But as for the second photo, i only used clarity slider to +14 so the contrast must have come from photoshop curves adjustment

>>2954830
I'd agree with the whole post processing thing... I never know when to stop... i just get carried away. But thanks for the advice. Your name is hanoian, your based in Hanoi i assume?

and yeah hoi an is full of great photo opportunities, but shame there are so many damn tourists around all the time

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>>2954885
>I never know when to stop... i just get carried away.
-Try to formulate goals before you start processing and stick to them. Don't just play around with the sliders when you don't have a clear vision where you want to take the photo before you start. In most cases, your photos won't need much editing.
-Look at the photo and histogram. Think about what needs to be done to improve the photo. Say, "make it warmer", or "needs more exposure".
-Make your improvements and stop. Come back the next day and compare the original and your edited version. Ask yourself if it really got better and check where problems are.
-Look back at old photos after a few months and investigate where you overdid it.

So:
1. Know towards what to work BEFORE you start editing.
2. Review your edits with some distance (i.e. time) to judge them more objectively

>>2954889
>>2954888
>>2954887
They aren't all that good, but they show some hints of composition, as one can imagine what you were going for. With some work, you will develop a good eye for Composition. They're just missing that one perfect opportunity of something interesting. To put it more rudely: they don't have a subject and/or are mediocre.
Often, that one great street photo is just a lot of waiting, or passing by the same spot again and again; or, you just have to be lucky being in the right spot at the right time.
But it's a start, and If you keep on photographing you'll catch some good moments in the future.

However, you really need to work on your post processing.

>>2954887
You really destroyed the skin tones with too much contrast. The color in the top left looks kind of fucked too. At the same time it's a bit distracting. The dark area under it is too dark, same for the middle one.
Other than that it feels a bit static in the way the two posts separate the image. The subject of the image (the two women with the fire) doesn't stand out enough. Maybe you should have gotten closer.

>>2954888
Not sure what to say about this one. Nothing stands out too much to criticize, nor does it have anything particular to praise.

>>2954889
I think your color balance/temperature/curve editing is too much. Other than that, you have a line of the hand holds leading the eye towards the center, but you have nothing interesting at the end. The guy with the headphones doesn't stand out enough, or rather he's not interesting enough.
You lose too much detail in the dark areas. Especially the head of the guy in the foreground is really disturbing the photo.

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>>2954887
Here, these are the areas which got hit especially hard by too much contrast.
Try to look out for this when you increase contrast in your photos.

>>2954915
I completely agree with it all, I feel that almost none, if any at all, of my photos have anything interesting to say. Not any interesting subjects and compositions are very amateur, but i am developing some understanding which is good

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has anyone got anything nice to say? Not complaining about the criticism, but need to feel at least some encouragement before i give up haha

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>>2954922
As I said in >>2954915, you're definitely on a good path already. You look for and see something that could be interesting, look for a composition and try to frame it. Your photos aren't bad, they're just not great yet.
It will just take a lot more photographing to get great.

If I were you, I'd do three things:
>Strengthen your grasp on composition
Look at a lot of great, classic photos and study their composition (just google "street photography composition"). Read up on composition. Think about all the different ways you can compose an image (lines, abstract shapes, dark&light, etc) and consider how you can make the eye flow naturally to an interesting point. It can only help your skills when you try out other genres of photography (architecture, landscape, etc).

>work on your processing
see the posts above

and most importantly:
>take a lot of photos and look at a lot of photos

>>2954925
Thanks man, i don't think i need to work on post processing so much as i need to just chill the fuck out with it haha. But yeah, i don't study enough photos, i've collected a reasonable sized gallery of classics but i haven't studied them. I want to cover my walls in small print outs to really look at them

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how about this?

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>>2954885
>hoi an is full of great photo opportunities, but shame there are so many damn tourists around all the time

Use them. It's a tourist town so tourists are a part of it's story. If you want to avoid tourists go someplace where there aren't any

>>2954931
you cut off the feet. WHYYYY

>>2955165

t. footfag.

>>2954821
>>2954887
I like it.

>>2954822
>>2954823
These are ehh.

>>2954889
>>2954935
>>2954936
>>2954931
This is trash. No.

>>2954934
I think James Nachtwey took some pictures of this community before. Take a look at them.

The little patches of vibrant color in the dull gray scene are nice. You seem to know what you're doing technically, and you did a good job picturewise too. You should feel good. Keep practicing and read lots of books, and you'll get a lot better.

>>2954885
yes, Hanoi born and raised! you seem to be in Hanoi also, am I right or were the photos just from a trip?

also your most of your photos seem to be more on the underexposed side, a lot of contrast too so you lose details for example like in >>2954934 it's pretty hard for the eye to settle on a certain spot in the photo, although the composition at first glance is interesting

>>2955198
Yeah i've been here for 2 years, bought my camera here so my only pictures are from Vietnam haha. Judging from the feedback i need to tone it down on the contrast haha

>>2955165
I agree, the feet would have made it whole, but there was a concrete step obstructing them so i had to leave it out

>>2955179
any constructive criticism other than "no"? "No" doesn't exactly help me improve much