Hey
I'm completely new to photography and I took these picture my second time shooting with my first "real" camera, a used RX100m2.
Please give me some critique so I can get better
All photos are shot in RAW then edited in Pixelmator Pro and exported to JPEGs.
Well, I am picking one example here. It's shot at 1/1250s with f/4 and ISO160 and obviously at a significantly reduced image size (which makes it harder to say anything definitive) and yet when pixel-peeping at what resolution is still there, it has sort of a hazy appearance that does not seem all that sharp sort-of uniformly. The center is dominated by the wooden planks (both as the center of the image and a converging part of the lines dominating the visual composition) so your eyes are drawn to them sort-of automatically and they are so-so sharp.
At this resolution, it is not easy just where your focusing point was. It might have been worthwhile either stepping down the aperture somewhat for increased sharpness across the board (you probably have some leeway with regard to the speed without having to sacrifice ISO) or put more focus on the biker by zooming in and opening up the aperture, thus putting mainly him(?) in focus and dissolving some of the background. Also the mast rather obviously points to the camera being less than level. That may be nice for dramatic effect but there are too many visual hints that this is not the actual orientation.
Nice motive, though, and good timing (or good selection from a burst).
Thank you for taking the time to write this! I played a bit with the sharpening tool and resize the picture after, that's why the low resolution. I will keep the resolution higher next time!
Well, at the remaining resolution the action of the sharpening tool is probably not very effective and whatever resampling strategy the size reduction used was probably not a good choice for maintaining a crisp look.
I see what you mean with the planks, they really do draw alot of attention now when you pointed it out. Do I desaturate them or just make the lighting on them darker?
No, that's just how the image is composed. There are a lot of visual lines leading diagonally to the planks, horizon and grass edges. That's not something you can really fix without really heavy cropping action.
I shot these picture in S-mode, so I only had the shutter speed to worry about.
I am a slow person and tend to worry more about aperture.
I think the level of the camera is pretty correct, cause the jump is carved into a hill and where you land it's tilting downward to the left (the jump is in a ski slope)
One would not place planks as tilted as that, one would (and could) not erect a mast with that much inclination, and if your biker jumped off the ramp and arrived in that orientation and position, there'd be some brutal wind blowing to the right and he'd crash besides the path on his right side next. The actual perspective would be more likely something like this:
I've probably been overdoing the perspective correction here but incidentally the planks got moved a bit out of the centerplace by cropping more earth than sky, moving the biker more into focus. It's really better doing that when taking the photograph, though, since that leaves you with more remaining resolution and sharpness to work with.
I really appreciate the pointers!
You are welcome.