Dry Docked on the Bathroom Floorby
PHOTOCHlXComment by Annida: Greetings from the Critique Club:
Composition:
This in my opinion is a great candid shot of a child leaning over the bathtub with his boats lined up. It's fairly cool in that respect. The way the child is looking down forces you to look there too, so the focus of the photograph is definitely on the boats. I think to make the composition better you could have moved over a bit to the right, so you didn't have the wall on the left side.
Background:
The bathtub, and the tiles. The tiles are over exposed a bit from the light above. I'm not sure if you used the flash or not. The tiles also seem to get lost under the water and the boats. The bathtub line could have been level to show different depths of the photograph. What is distracting is the wall on the left of the childs head.
Technical Processing:
I like the black and white, but I think that maybe you lose a bit of the depth and the the point of the photograph. I like the smooth softer focus of the shot, and the DOF is pretty good. I am very fond of duotone at the moment, did you try that? Maybe some levels and curves to actually bring out your subject matter more?
My opinion:
I like this picture, but I agree with what somebody else in that the subject matter didn't seem to fit, even though there were some square elements in the photo, they didn't seem to stick out. Great photo, I hope to see more from you in the future!