::: Critique Club :::
Hi, I am Kari and from the critique club.
I really do like the picture that you took of the Sunset .. and it is my turn to critique your entry into patterns.
First Impression - the most important one:
I like the image, it sparked my imagination, I love colour and this has strong colours which are gorgeous.
Composition:
I think you have done well. You have cropped out what you think didn't work and stuck with what you did. I think that it is quite dark and this may have detracted slightly from the patterns, this is something that you pick up from playing around with the brightness and contrast a bit more.
Being fairly new here myself I often do a number of edits before making up my mind which one to enter. This gives me a clearer thought process on entry. You may do this already. You will continue to see improvements.
Subject:
I think that the choice of subject was too esoteric for a lot of the voters and you can see this in a couple of the comments you received. Personally I scored you above average, it is out of the box and sometimes left field doesn't score as well.
Technical (Colour and light):
The colours are nicely contrasting, but maybe a little dark. The Depth of field that you have used works well in this shot and it is clear. You have done well it ensuring that the picture takes the maximum size of pixels 640 longest side (some entries are small and hard to see at times) ... I am not sure what programme you are editing your picture, but there may be a way of optimising the picture when you resize and save as a jpeg to allow your picture to keep more detail.
To grow its vote?:
It is a lovely shot, the problems aren't huge. Sticking to the safe side of challenges would grow your vote, but challenging the voters you may find more fun. So go for it.
Summary:
I understand from the threads what you are saying about "not having a fancy camera with all those lenses etc".. but you have to work with what you have. And you are learning and starting to work with it. You don't need a fancy camera, and really you gotta work with what you got. Just take time and learn about your camera and your software and play.
If you've got any questions about this critique, please feel free to contact me via the PM system.
Cheers
Kari |
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