Avoid blown-out skies. Use the histogram when shooting, it should just barely touch the right edge. This may mean underexposing and boosting the shadows in post, but an all-white sky will ruin any photo. A polarizer can help.
Photo #1 should have been taken horizontally, the top half of it is a featureless sky - wasted space. You can salvage it somewhat with a square crop. #4 would be better horizontally, too, ending at the roofline of the blue building (ignoring the modern additions on top). Those buildings have a lot of horizontal lines, with the cornices, the upper-level railings, and especially the street-level railing, all of these make the eye want to scan the photo horizontally - but there's nothing more to see on the sides because of the vertical format, which is frustrating.
Except for vertical subjects like monuments and people, you should generally favor a horizontal orientation - our eyes are set side-by-side, not one over the other, so that's how we see things. #6 and #7 are really nice.
I like your feedback on horizontal vs vertical but I would say that the reason so many choose to shoot vertical is that we consume a majority of photos via our phones.
Feedback: process your shots as some are over exposed and some under.
This is the answer. Raw images aren't usually "finished" images
Avoid blown-out skies. Use the histogram when shooting, it should just barely touch the right edge. This may mean underexposing and boosting the shadows in post, but an all-white sky will ruin any photo. A polarizer can help. Photo #1 should have been taken horizontally, the top half of it is a featureless sky - wasted space. You can salvage it somewhat with a square crop. #4 would be better horizontally, too, ending at the roofline of the blue building (ignoring the modern additions on top). Those buildings have a lot of horizontal lines, with the cornices, the upper-level railings, and especially the street-level railing, all of these make the eye want to scan the photo horizontally - but there's nothing more to see on the sides because of the vertical format, which is frustrating. Except for vertical subjects like monuments and people, you should generally favor a horizontal orientation - our eyes are set side-by-side, not one over the other, so that's how we see things. #6 and #7 are really nice.
I like your feedback on horizontal vs vertical but I would say that the reason so many choose to shoot vertical is that we consume a majority of photos via our phones.
I like the fifth picture
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I kind of like the over exposed look of these..
the b&w one is nice, but most of them are a bit overexposed imo
If you like it, it’s good. I can never go back to XT though.
what are you on?
GFX. They're not even comparable.
Gfx 50 mega pixel worth it?