Dreary overcast day today, but I got this using a vintage, "Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f/1.4," at f/5.6, while I was driving around a local town.
>>3373255Not bad, (mirror lens?), though the things in front of the face shouldn't be there for better composition. That's hard to do obviously. Needing to crank up the ISO on those things always pains me, but the dappledness of the noise suits the low contrast and color scheme in this image. It'd be perfect if it weren't for the face being obscured a bit.
>>3373322Very nice image. Good composition. Good lighting. Good decision on black and white (that's rare). The ISO noise is almost non-existent (to hell with my D3400,) and what there is doesn't seem to harm anything. You nailed that focus and metering. lol Is the shape of the light in the background the light itself or the bokeh/multiple-overlayed bokeh? I have an f/1.8 lens where at f/5.6 it looks like an octagram and only at f/5.6 it does that. It makes a single bokeh similar to that.
>>3373326That statue itself is impressive. I think I would have use 0EV any simply slowed down the exposure by one stop. It's still be plenty fast for 30mm at around 1/1250 and still be handheld. That isn't a detraction. The framing is good, but the sky above the head becomes uninteresting since there's nothing there but a gradient. The spacing is good up there, but maybe it needed some clouds drifting by. The face could use a little bit of fill light like 1/4th of a stop, from the left side of the pedestal, only if the rest of it didn't get more fill light. A reflector may have worked for that. Good job regardless. I'm glad it isn't centered.
>>3373511There's unique shape and perspective. I think the leftmost edge of the corner needed to be up a bit higher in frame so it is more centered and symmetrical. Then the tilt of the edge's line needs to be straight up and down instead of leaning a bit. That can be fixed in post if you have nothing in the viewfinder to help line it up perfect.
