These are a couple of pics I have taken of the last couple of days. Critique them all but also which do you think looks better between #7 and #8. Also which of #10 - #12 do you thinks looks better.

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Only pictures 4,5,6 have any kind of merit to critique. Anything else just looks like you were playing around with your camera.

And my only critique is I think 6 coul dhave some better composition...getting the table more on the lower left 3rd of the frame.

 

#3 was my fav...

And between 7 and 8, I like 8 better because you put some kind of filter on it.. looks like a mild sepia. #7 looks like, a crooked picture of a college sign with a picnic table off in the distance. #8 looks like, an artsy crooked picture of a college sign with a picnic table off in the distance. If the picture was straight (with the sign straight) I think the quality of that picture would go up a good deal. I still don't know what it would be used for, perhaps an abstract piece.

And, everything else except for 3, 4, 5 and 6 do look like test shots. But 3 is my fav.

 

Errr....

 

3) Could be something if you crop out roughly 80-90% of the empty sky at the top. Even so, the light is too flat to make it really speacial. Late golden hour light would probably make the surface texture really pop. Assuming the object was facing the right direction.

4) Best of the bunch. Like it a lot. Great color contrast. Almost wish there was a bit more of the surface in the UL corner showing.

5) Good idea but the sky is just too bland to make it interesting for me. Polarizer to get rid of light fixture reflections.

6) IMO, not enough tonal variation to make an interesting B&W. As Sarlacc said, picinic table is bullseye'd. If it was possibile, shift entire composition left and up a little bit. Something like placing the LR rule of thirds point about 1/2 way up the bottom segment of the picnic table base.

7/8) Tough exposure. Could have used maybe another 1/2 stop to get the snow white-er but the sky is already nearly blown out. I like 7 better. The B&W portions of 8 leave me wanting more contrast which in turn makes the snow jump out as even gray-er to me.

 

Go tigers!
I like the first pic of what I presume is the sundial

 

yes the 3rd and 4th pictures are of the sundial. I take it you went to RIT.

 

yah, I like 3 best, it's the only one that made me blink and go 'hmmm'.

I also like #6 - it's a nice balanced picture.

In the 'to each their own' category, you like shooting stuff at angles, which doesn't do much for me. I like shooting stuff in perspective, but in your case it looks like you just aren't holding the camera straight. If it makes you happy though, power to you.

technically, the pics are fine. But as was said before, the content is pretty random, and there's not much to critique.