Is this photography or what?

Happy now?

 

Making use of the height of the buildings is an option. Instead of holding the camera at eye level and looking down slightly at the subject, it can be placed lower and tilted upward slightly to show the overshadowing nature of the buildings.

Having the person's face right in the center of the pic is usually avoided, unless it's for some special effect. It's a common beginner mistake. It cuts off the body. If you watch people on TV such as newscasters, the head is usually about a third of the way down from the top of the screen. It shows some of the rest of the body and gives balance.

Focusing on the person and making the background slightly blurred can give effect and make the background less distracting. It involves using a large lens aperture which makes the focal range short.

A pic could be taken from high on top of one of the buildings looking down at the wee little red lady bug slowly traversing the rough urban drab landscape by herself.

 

Come to think of it, i have taken better pics with my cellphone.

 

i like the way you think outside the box ace. you have a good eye for abstract photography

 

The pics look ok . I dont know why you chose a back alley to take them . I would think a store , park , the zoo , etc. would have been better . I an not sure if I would feel safe taking a girl in to a back ally any way . Remember Jodi Arias ? Ok that was at his house and he wasted to tell her good by .

 

P.S. There is a bus that for a few $ will take you to Gilla bend , Why , and Ajo AZ . I thought about posting pics from that trip hear , but had no idea if any one would be interested . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gila_Bend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why,_Arizona http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajo

 

i took them while walking around trying not to attract too much atttention, I know of the rule of thirds.

 

that's what I said, haven't even been in photoshop yet, there's enough resolution to crop

 

You can only really point and click with a Samsung Corby...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6jWDyH9RiM"]Samsung Corby S3650 - YouTube

 

I could just put up a tripod in the middle of the street and take badass pictures, but we were trying not to attract a lot of attention, I didn't want anyone to see I had a camera, I had to tell a group of people I was a photojournalist.

 

these people, but she looks better

 

Ah...Color Runners...

 

Haha, all the haters because there's a chick in your photos.

And ahh the baltimore arena. Many fun nights walking by and pissing on the side of that building.

 

^ha word

 

Everyone seems to like the chick, it's the photography that's the problem.

and duck face...is she really doing duck face in one of those pics?

 

Pretty lady and your photos are just fine.

 

yeah, I think the chick is pretty, she looks interesting, and she's pretty good at modeling and posing. I just have a problem with the composition. It just looks odd that he cut her feet off in every picture. I don't know enough about photography to critique the lighting and such, but I know how to properly balance and frame a shot. Cutting off her feet like that just throws the whole composition off.

 

thanks

the location some may not understand, but the urban grittiness is an element of it and is part of what makes it what it is....it is what it is (and it ain't what it ain't).

There was a sketchy lookin dude or two behind me not directly, they were just lurking back there..just homeless I think) so I was trying (yeah I know it didn't work) not to have the camera and shit be noticed so I was holdin it kinda down and close to me...the camera wasn't what they were gonna notice first tho ya see.

 

They're not bad. But blowing smoke up a guy's arse isn't going to make him a better photographer. There has been some good suggestions in this thread and they're all bang on.