More of JoeTokyo's work

[Gr00v3]

I have an assignment due tomorrow where the theme is, "water."

It can be of anything, and interpreted anyway i want. Here are the Five i plan to turn in.

#1

It's like a beer ad. but for water. i know it sucks, but i like the idea

#2

Taken the day before D1 at D1.

#3

A Fountain at the LA Library

#4

Same Fountain, I just can't decide which angle I like better.

#5

Taken at LA's famous Olvera Street. The kid was so cute, he couldn't reach the fountain so his father came to help him. I asked before hand if I could shoot the kid as he sipped the water, and the father said alright. Turns out I got a better shot from it.

Comments and Critiques welcome and greatly needed.

-JoeTokyo

[hamann318is]

The first and last picture are cool as hell. I dig it.

[The Fast One!]

first, second and last.

nice

[Ray Smoodiver]

You get an A

[Rob]

what, no "I couldnt afford braces" pics this time?

[aaron_silva]

I think the first one would be better if the background wasnt so busy.

Aaron

[Digitalwave]

Great work buddy. 2 and 5 are the strongest to me.

[Jand3rson]

Great work buddy. 2 and 5 are the strongest to me.

I'm with TJ. #2 and #5.

[Ben Carufel]

Joe;

Good stuff, but I would still encourage you to work on your backgrounds. Obviously it's not always easy to do, but the difference between a good and a great photograph of the same subject can sometimes be as simple as an uncluttered background.

I think the lighting on the first fountain shot makes it much more interesting. The angle is also better; there's no question that it's at a skewed angle. In the second fountain shot, the neck is obviously leaning and that throws off the squareness that the vertical frame would have otherwise lent to the image.

Good color in the drinking fountain shot. Background is cluttered, though.

As far as the beer shot, I think you're relying way too heavily on the fisheye lens to give the shot interest. Besides cleaning up the background, the very first thing that popped to mind was to have the guys holding clear glass beer steins filled with water...or maybe guys laying around looking drunk on "the morning after" with a ton of empty water bottles all over instead of beer cans.

Just my $0.02.