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with comments from Philip Grosset "I have enjoyed every inch of your website. Very informative. I have had a camera in my hands since I was 10 (I am now 36), whether it was a 110, a 35 mm SLR, or, like now, a 2.3 megapixel FujiFilm MX-2900 zoom. I always get a thrill when I'm making what I think may be "THE shot", and can't get enough. Now that my kids are school age, I wanted to pursue photography a little more seriously. I would like to submit 4 photos to you,and would like to thank you in advance for your time and thoughts. They are: 1. Bayview Beach at Sunset. Taken August 2001 at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I know you are encouraging people to take something besides sunsets, but I was hoping this was slightly different. 2. Girl looking out window. Taken August 2001 in Maine in a cabin. 3. Canada goose. April 2002. Pond near my home in Massachusetts around 3 or4 p.m. 4. Girl on rocks at beach. Spring 2000. This was taken at a low file size when I was learning about the camera, so I know it may look a bit digitized. In all of these, they were taken on the automatic setting. I am interested in composition, and "eye". I hope they transmit to you properly.... I have had problems, for some reason that I still need to investigate, on having them upload to my website darker than I thought, and have had to adjust. Please tell me if further adjustments are needed for your review. Much obliged!" (Karen P. Bryan) |
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| Your photo on the left is quite out of the ordinary, but, as so often, the middle of the picture isn't necessarily the best place for the figures (although it was a very good idea to include them).. On the right, I've tried moving them to one of the intersections of thirds. This removes the rather overpowering black down two of the sides of the original. If you want to keep the threatening black, you could just crop away half of the space between the figures and the right hand edge of the picture in your original version. |
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| I think this is a very successful portrait on the left. My only query is that the window frame in the left foreground seems sharper than the girl's face. In my version on the right, I've slightly blurred the window frame so as to concentrate attention on the face. |
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| Another very successful photo on the left. On the right, I've tried coming in just a little closer so as to emphasise the goose even more. |
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| Ideally, it would have been good to see a little more of the girl's face in your photo on the left. I'd also consider using a vertical format, as on the right, as this better matches her shape. But altogether this is a very effective set of photos. Reply from Karen P. Bryan: "Thank you so much for your comments! I accept them with great enthusiasm! I loved how you cropped right in on the last photo. POW! It really makes a better statement. I have learned a lot from the suggestions from the other three photos as well, and I am further encouraged to continue with my plans and to learn and grow. Warmest Regards." "I started being interested in photography a few years ago, but only now I started doing something about it. I took this picture with a point and shoot camera, on an asa 400 b/w film. It was taken on my mother's roof. The picture suffers from short exposure due to the sky around it, but It turned out like an interesting shadow. I also like the framing. Tell me what you think. I recently got an old Pentax ME slr camera, and I'm experimenting with it. I'll add more pictures when it comes to it. Thanks." (Rotem Littman, Israel) |
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| Your photo on the left is very effective, but there seems rather a large empty space down the left of it, so, in my version on the right, I've tried lessening this by moving in closer, although I've kept the rose still slightly off-centre. Silhouttes like this can be very pleasing. Of course, if you wanted to avoid this effect, just take a close-up reading from the rose, or, if it is too small, from some similarly lit larger object. Reply from Rotem Littman: "Thanks for the review. I partly agree with what you said, but I think that it could be a little more better if (referring to my picture) I'd left less space on the left, but a little more space on the top. About your advice, could I have used fill in flash to avoid the silhouette? Thanks." |
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| Well, here's my interpretation of your preferred version! It's perfectly acceptable, but I think that having the rose positioned in such a central position makes the picture look just a bit more ordinary, but the difference is pretty minimal.You could have avoided the silhoutte effect by using flash - but it's the silhouette that gives the picture its interest. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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