I'm really excited to see the kinds of visuals Hoytema can bring working with Mendes. Particularly after Interstellar. (Maybe Mendes will take after Nolan again and utilize more IMAX cameras, especially since Nolan started to handhold those like a GoPro) I didn't pay very much attention to cinematography to begin with when watching and analyzing films but Deakins and Mendes opened my mind and just blew me away with Skyfall.
QoS was alright in some areas cinematographically, I think the final fight at Greene's Bolivian estate was rather nice visually. They had good practical effects and I think at times having this bright, almost monotone and bleached look can be good, but if you asked me to choose between QoS and Skyfall, then Skyfall by far.
I think some of the action scenes were just really poorly directed. The minor skirmish he had in that one room was nice for its brutality, but the opening car chase and subsequent fight with Mitchell was just so shaky. We had already seen the money shot where Bond flips up and shoots, which was nice, but everything leading up to that was rather poor. And I'm not totally against shaky cam, stuff like The Winter Soldier and the Bourne films had shaky cam I could live with and enjoy, but QoS not so much.
The plane fight was rather nice though.