Please critique.

Please critique some of recent photos taken with Leica.

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1911555

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1911557

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914690

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914699

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914703

 

Also check out the B&W folder.

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=352984

 

Thanks.

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I like your work very much. I'm drawn more to the color work than to the b&w. Eat more beef is funny, the flames in Reno are intriguing, and I find your sense of color strong. In the b%, I particularly enjoyed the forest with the sunlight streaming in from the right. Thanks for sharing and please keep it up.

Very well framed. I like it very much and hope to see more.

FL.

You are a good, competent photographer. You know what works in b/w and what works in color. You have a good eye and sense humor. Your compositions are generally good, as is your or your b/w printer's skill.

 

What I don't see in the pictures is some kind of personality or expressiveness, some revelation of the uniqueness of Panya Wong's point of view. To show your appreciation of the beautiful, to demonstrate your competency in design are not enough. The time has come to give the viewer something to think about or decipher, for you to question what lies before your lens and to raise questions in the viewer's mind. I'm asking you to reveal more about yourself through the way you relate to your subjects, to become a artist rather than a mere keen observer and artful recorder of things, however competent you may be.

 

Your image of what appear to be the dangling legs of workmen is a step in that direction. It demands more from the viewer than the rest of your images and raises more questions. Why do you show only the legs -- is there a reason beyond the composition (which draws me to the image at the outset). Who are these men? What is there occupation? Are they flirting with some unseen girls? You put the ball in the viewer's court. In this instance, showing less of your subjects demands more from me as a viewer and makes me engage with your photograph.

 

Keep on plugging.

 

Bob W

If they are all full frame shots, you really have something to show. Good work.

Panya I think it is a good portfolio, and I like the subject matter - you take few people, which will not be many people's taste on this forum, but that is fine. In this you may resemble me. I take people but rarely pick them when printing for an exhibition or wall. Your stuff is intensely naturally appealing and visually decorative. It is not profound - but again profundity is not necessarily what you want to look at all day. It is also very difficult to achieve.

 

I don't see the point of rendering pictures as both color and black and white. It is a waste of space and doesn't help the portfolio. Pick one only and display that. It weakens your presentation.

Hi, Panya:

 

IMHO you need no critique: yours is some of the best B&W photography I've seen lately. I envy the wide tonal range, the natural "easy" composition, exact framing and the careful and neat printing as far as can be appraised on screen.

 

Thanks for your contribution. Something to have at hand like a good reference horizon for one's own work.

 

Regards, Panya

 

-Iván