Cockatoo Island (Beginner Shoot)

[Ktsa5239]

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Hi everyone ! 

I've being taking photos for several years but never felt like a proper photographer, mainly because I never thought about my pictures. My photos were ordinary and it just looks like pictures that anyone could have taken with a phone. So recently I've read a book about compositions and exposures that inspired me to really think about my photos. I've set out today with a 50mm (normally I just use a 35mm and crop the thing I want...) and the challenge is not to crop anything but to think hard about the composition and exposure. Walking around cockatoo island which is an abandoned ship factory, I tried to find interesting objects, shadows and contrast. I find it really really difficult but for the first time I felt like a photographer walking back and fourth going up and low trying to find new perspectives. Here are the outcomes for today's work. Please let me know what you think. I would love to learn more. 

http://s1054.photobucket.com/user/Kobe_Tsang/library/Cockatoo Island

Thanks!

Kobe

[Ktsa5239]

If that link doesnt work, here is a link using Imgur

https://imgur.com/a/D1yuxgH

 

Edited November 17, 2019 by Ktsa5239

[stuny]

You've definitely graduated from the look of cell phone snaps.  Many of these are quite lovely, so keep going.  However, many of us will not expend the effort of clicking through to see photos without incentive to do so.  In the future I most strongly urge you place one or two images directly on the forum to lure us into clicking through.