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Gingras Review

  • 19 May 2019 9:45 AM
    Message # 7349678
    Dan Gingras (Administrator)

    Italy for review

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  • 21 May 2019 11:44 AM
    Reply # 7353841 on 7349678
    Dan Derby (Administrator)
    Dan Gingras wrote:

    Italy for review

    Should I make comments on all three as a set or do I need to do each one with it's own comments?  You didn't say what your "intent" was (i.e. why you did these images), perhaps Travel photography (getting published?) or Facebook (impressing friends?), Looking at them individually:

    Image 1) Overall idea is really eye catching. There is something in the colosseum that makes it look not quite straight or something in the composition makes it feel that way (right side perspective shift?). That's a distraction.  Since it's the main subject, with the car lights adding dynamic interest, try a bit of photoshop to both eliminate that and crop it tighter (get closer).

    Images 2&3)  The use of selective coloring is an outdated aesthetic. It was first popularized when Photoshop came out.  It's pretty distracting. Pictures 3, for example, could get better results by using something subtler with all the image in color. Or try vignetting with the center point being the store and/or bumping up the reds & yellow channels during your b&w conversion.  There's light coming from the left that emphasised more would add movement (i.e. something going on in addition to empty store).  The empty quality of the shot is one of it's real strengths, emphasise that...makes the thing more mysterious and interesting.  The light in the window.

    This exercise taught me that three images is way too many to ask someone to comment on in depth.  It also made me aware that asking what the intent of the photo is really makes me think about what my own photos are about. As my mother once asked me about a photo I took "What's your point?".  Also, I worked it a bit to see if I could do what I was suggesting. That's attached.

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  • 25 Jun 2019 5:03 PM
    Reply # 7657793 on 7349678
    Anonymous

    Belatedly trying this out for the first time. I agree with the first image. Something looks off, perhaps the structure is too close to the top, and too much roadway? Yes, the color in #2 is distracting. Gondolas are colorful and perhaps a color treatment would be better. However, I like the selective color in #3. If the rest of the image was a darker contrasted B&W as in Dan D's edit, I think the color interior gives a feeling of warmth on an otherwise cold and mysterious outside.

    So, this says that critiques are very subjective. It is an interesting exercise to hear multiple reviewer's comments. A valuable approach might be to have the photographer hear/read the commentary, and then explain what he/she was trying to do with the image. As Dan G and I have said, sometimes the photographer like what he/she sees and does not have an explanation for why he took the photo! 

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