Ignore my comments if you don't like them. I'm just a spectator when it comes to photography, I'm not even an amateur photographer, let alone anything close to being professional.
Ueno Park:
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I think this is my favorite of the five you posted. I like the perspective and composition although the leaf in the foreground dominates a bit. The sky is grey which is a shame. Photoshop it blue? Or take it again on a sunny day (early morning or late evening should give you better lighting).
Kyoto Path:
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Nice perspective and colors but it's slightly lopsided - I mean the pole on the left has a bit cut off, and there's a gap between the pole on the right and the edge of the photo. Don't know if you can shift or crop it or something to get more balance. It's a shame the characters at the top have a bit missing too. Maybe crop below that and see how it looks.
Kyoto Path 2:
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Doesn't really stand out. The statue on the left looks wonky, and the power lines are a distraction. What about cropping out the statue and below the power lines? Then the red poles become more dominant (even more so if you can enhance the color a bit). It looks like a middle of the day shot so the light is unspectacular. If you have an opportunity to go back and shoot a similar photo early morning or late evening, it might look more dramatic.
British Museum:
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Bleah. Looks like something someone snapped on a phone camera on the spur of the moment. It's just a photo of a couple of statues and some old tablets. Nothing that makes it stand out. The lighting is screwed in the middle. Not sure if you've lost resolution when resizing or if it's slightly blurry (do you use a sharpen tool when resizing?).
Big Ben:
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Nope. The top is missing, it's off-center, the sky is washed out, the bottom looks blurry (resizing problem again?), the clock faces and structure don't seem very clear. Nothing to make it stand out from the thousands of photos of Big Ben that I guess tourists take every day.
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Ignore my comments if you don't like them. I'm just a spectator when it comes to photography, I'm not even an amateur photographer, let alone anything close to being professional.
I think this is my favorite of the five you posted. I like the perspective and composition although the leaf in the foreground dominates a bit. The sky is grey which is a shame. Photoshop it blue? Or take it again on a sunny day (early morning or late evening should give you better lighting).
Nice perspective and colors but it's slightly lopsided - I mean the pole on the left has a bit cut off, and there's a gap between the pole on the right and the edge of the photo. Don't know if you can shift or crop it or something to get more balance. It's a shame the characters at the top have a bit missing too. Maybe crop below that and see how it looks.
Doesn't really stand out. The statue on the left looks wonky, and the power lines are a distraction. What about cropping out the statue and below the power lines? Then the red poles become more dominant (even more so if you can enhance the color a bit). It looks like a middle of the day shot so the light is unspectacular. If you have an opportunity to go back and shoot a similar photo early morning or late evening, it might look more dramatic.
Bleah. Looks like something someone snapped on a phone camera on the spur of the moment. It's just a photo of a couple of statues and some old tablets. Nothing that makes it stand out. The lighting is screwed in the middle. Not sure if you've lost resolution when resizing or if it's slightly blurry (do you use a sharpen tool when resizing?).
Nope. The top is missing, it's off-center, the sky is washed out, the bottom looks blurry (resizing problem again?), the clock faces and structure don't seem very clear. Nothing to make it stand out from the thousands of photos of Big Ben that I guess tourists take every day.