Gaudi's People
by tripodman

Comment by tripodman:

Originally posted by snaffles: Greetings from the Critique Club! This image has nice lighting on it, but says snapshot to me, and it seems many others felt the same way. It's always a loaded situation, entering photos of existing artwork; it's generally discouraged, as first of all the artwork is not yours, and you can't rely on voters to know who Gaudi is or be familiar with his style. I suspect many see only sculptures and not the human forms; they are looking for humans with a pulse. On a technical basis there appear to be sharpening halos around the sculpture. The POV and composition are uninspired; a tighter crop and some people in the shot would have helped a lot. I've seen your portfolio and know you can produce much stronger images, so I do hope you take this critique as useful and continue to enter challenges. Feel free to PM me Susan

Thanks Susan

I was surprised at the low scores for this one... and I have had lots of low scores before!!! I can see what you are saying and can't really argue with you. It probably is a snapshot but I liked it but maybe that's because I had been totally immersed in Gaudi and Barcelona that week.

Not sure what you meant by the sharpening halos around the heads though.
Andy


Message edited by author 2012-05-24 19:00:41.

Gaudi's People
by tripodman

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

This image has nice lighting on it, but says snapshot to me, and it seems many others felt the same way. It's always a loaded situation, entering photos of existing artwork; it's generally discouraged, as first of all the artwork is not yours, and you can't rely on voters to know who Gaudi is or be familiar with his style. I suspect many see only sculptures and not the human forms; they are looking for humans with a pulse.

On a technical basis there appear to be sharpening halos around the sculpture. The POV and composition are uninspired; a tighter crop and some people in the shot would have helped a lot.

I've seen your portfolio and know you can produce much stronger images, so I do hope you take this critique as useful and continue to enter challenges.

Feel free to PM me

Susan

SAGRADA
by tripodman

Comment by bvy:
Pefectly framed.

Urban Landscape
by tripodman

Comment by MarioPierre:
In my opinion, that flash just ruined what-ever was good about this shot.

Urban Landscape
by tripodman

Comment by blindjustice:
Great touches with the flower and the house- the great sky- one of my faves so far. This looks like what I would imagine the South looks like in Winter.

Urban Landscape
by tripodman

Comment by JamesDowning:
The foreground light kinda ruined this one for me. The camera focused on the closest object and therefore de-focused the sky, which is what I think you really wanted to focus on here. Good effort though.

World Wide Web.... just a minor part of it!!
by tripodman

Comment by jomari:
Much potential to be stunning, but unfortunately lacking in focus.

Circles of Light
by tripodman

Comment by fadri:
good perspective, but quality is not very good (not so sharp)

World Wide Web.... just a minor part of it!!
by tripodman

Comment by bvy:
Good idea but suffers from JPG artifacts.

World Wide Web.... just a minor part of it!!
by tripodman

Comment by Tiny:
Think this should be focused.