Photo Critique is a series where I mercilessly critique your photos. These critiques give photography tips that help you know how to take better photos.
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Visual Photo Critique 10
Visual Photo Critique is a series where I mercilessly critique and mark-up reader submitted photos. Aside from boosting my ego, hopefully these critiques also provide photo tips that help you know how to shoot and edit your own pictures better. Keep in mind that these photo tips are just my personal opinions based on my own personal biases. I encourage you all to find your own style.
Visual Photo Critique 9
Photo Critique is a series where I mercilessly critique your photos. These critiques give photography tips that help you know how to take better photos.
Visual Photo Critique 8
Photo Critique is a series where I mercilessly critique your photos. These critiques give photography tips that help you know how to take better photos.
Visual Photo Critique 7
Photo Critique is a series where I mercilessly critique your photos. These critiques give photography tips that help you know how to take better photos.
Visual Photo Critique: Name that Hue!
Photo Critique #1
(Photo by Jeremia Bostwick)
The first thing that grabs me about this photo is the rich color. Also, Jeremia wisely chose to center the subject and highlight its symmetry. The shot looks like it could’ve been tone mapped. If that’s the case, well done avoiding glowy earmarks so common in HDR processing. Already this has a lot working for it and I think this shot has the potential to be a portfolio piece with a few tweaks.
Photo Critique #2
(Photo by Christian Jog)
Immediately my mind goes to this photo by Elia Locardi. With a some Photoshop magic, this is a shot worth developing further. If you took bracketed exposures of this scene, I think this is a good candidate for tone mapping and HDR processing.
Visual Photo Critique: Marking Up Europe, Natives, and Trucks
Woot! Finally another photo critique post! The HDR Life Cycle was a bundle of technical fun and all, but it was only a one way exchange. One rewarding part of photography that I’m hoping to foster in this blog is community. Getting and giving feedback is crucial to growing as a photographer. Although style is subjective, learning how to communicate and sharpening technical skills is important. With that in mind, don’t be shy, take me up on my offer to critique your work. Either upload lo res files or provide a URL to the shots themselves on the contact page. If you want, I’ll even link people to your web site too.
If you’re like, “naw man, submitting my work just ain’t for me,” be sure to plug yourself into a network of photographers whose work you respect and participate in feedback-centric convos with them.
Photo Critique #1
First up is this shot from Nathan over at As We Travel. Immediately my eye is drawn down the road, stops to investigate the orange building, then skips merrily through arch off to the left. Overall, I like the shot (it helps I’m a sucker for traditional looking European towns). The photo critique below has more a more specific precise analysis.
Visual Photo Critique: Hecktic Travels Brighton Up
With a few curves adjustment layers, a high pass filter, and some selective Photoshop edits, this shot of a church in Brighton from Pete and Dalene of Hecktic travels shines.
Visual Photo Critique: Jack and Jill Meet Lightroom
Overall the shot is pretty awesome and there isn’t a lot to critique. I especially appreciate how level it is. You can tell because the window frame is parallel to the edge of the picture. Nice work! Also, the subject doesn’t look posed or fake. There are a few improvements I can see though (mostly in Lightroom) so let’s dig in.
Visual Photo Critique: Nomadic Samuel’s Mekong Delta
Straight out of the camera, this photo from Nomadic Samuel is a winner and has a lot of potential. Without a few edits in Lightroom, this would fit well in a travel photo portfolio. Here’s my 2 cents about how this good shot could become more frame worthy.
Visual Photo Critique: Unbrave Girl’s Nikko Japan
When Sally (author of the Unbrave Girl blog) sent me this photo, I was like “What?! I said send me a bad photo!” I think the shot is very compelling to begin with. After comparing the before and after shot, you’ll see that I only did some minor Photoshop editing to try to make this photo really shine.