asianspec

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1. Be constrictive when critiquing others.

2 If being critiqued, be respectful that your opinion/vision is not the same as the others.

3. Do not post in here if you are looking for likes/thanks.

4. 1 photo to be critiqued per page per member.

5. Please be clear who are you are critiquing as there could be multiple photos being asked to be looked at.

6 Rules are subjected to change. (only for purposes of updating as this thread goes along)


*This is a thread used for members get better at their photography and not a bashing room to tell somebody how much they suck. We were all noobs at one time or another.*

Stapler

I went to a place with trees and feel I may have gone too dark with the processing, and possibly over saturated it a bit. The whole green look of the place just isn't my thing.

Also this one I guess I could crop a bit under the mountain and drawn more attention to my 3 friends in the bottom right, but there is also all that brush that also becomes more prominent.




I'm looking on input from everything from PP to the Photo itself.

Nicks2001tl

The way background is to dark.


I see multiple photos.
1. your friends
2. the background if the camera is tilted up gets the mountain and the sky
3. If you stand behind friend number three and point towards the cars you can get a whole picture of all the cars
4. The river and the mountain to the right.
5. If you just zoom in on your friends.


What`s to the left of the pic?

einsatz

I would def. change the aspect ratio and composition and brighten it up a bit. Something like this. Other than that, it's basically just a snapshot and not a work of fine art, so no need to overthink it.

Italiano

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stogie1020

Not a chance...

Sarlacc

I see #3 was already broken within first 6 posts...

stogie1020

I just "thanked" you. I think I broke a rule.

asianspec

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cmschmie

Is it possible to ban a member from a particular thread?

pttl

Red text?






i see teal.

asianspec

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You can be banned from a particular section of the forums. But why do that, just ban them all the way.

srika

nice work Stapler - I don't mind the composition, your friends leading into the scene works and you included just enough of the mountains to complete it. I think the shot would have been stronger if it included the mountaintops and some sky, though. Perhaps a vertical frame.

I prefer more "earthy" tones for scenes like this, and I also tune down the greens. something like this

is300eater

you have a tendency to leave too much space above the head in a lot of your portraits. Especially your last post at the "Post Your Favorites" thread

Mizouse

Nicks2001tl

I like the way this pic turned out except for the sky. I tried a couple of things in PP and came up with blanks. Anything I can do to enhance the dreary sky.

stogie1020

Nick, tonally there does not seem to be a whole lot going on (little tonal variation between the sky and the water). The center 1/3 horizontally seems a bit busy to my eye, just too much stuff.

I think I understand what you were going for, unfortunately the color of the center sail boat is not a pronounced hue, and I wonder what the image would look like if the corp were a lot tighter on one side of the pier columns and the blue sail boat only...

Nicks2001tl

I had two pictures here. I think this is what you mean.

Undying Dreams

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I like the composition much better on that one, Nick. I know what you mean about the first pic you posted. The colors just seem to blend together and give an overall "boring" feel to the photo, I think the cropped image above has greater potential.

1) The composition leads your eye from the docks to the boat in the open.
2) The subjects appear larger and less cluttered.
3) You have more pronounced colors that also appear larger and bolder in this composition.

The overall "feel" of the photo could still use something though...

Stapler

To the left is some brush on the wall of the valley. I probably could have framed a few more cars, but it's mostly valley side over there.

I do have a few other photos from the day where I focused on one aspect of the scenery, but I liked this because it's my friends walking along the river to the festival thingy. I think what I failed to realize is I'm giving it context in my head that doesn't show in the picture. So like einsatz said I'm just over thinking a snapshot.

I did a little bit of re editing to warmish and lighten some parts of it. I do like it more, but I would really need to go back to retake it and be semi assertive to love it.





sonofa. I changed the access rights on the first picture so it wouldn't show up in my feed and it changed the hotlink address. If someone with authority wants to change it this one should work https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2912/...5aa8190e_h.jpg

Nicks2001tl

The sky and water are too dark, will work on it. Thx.
Next Pic.

asianspec

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To be quite honest with Stapler and Nick's photos, i am struggling to find the subject of the pic. Like there is too much going on in the photo.