Please give me your critique input

[khiem_nguyen1]

Hi, all again I need your input , this shot was taken at flower

field in San Diego , it is quite hard to ask my son for him stand

still so consisder this is pure luck.Please be advice I am still a

amateur ,shoot by leica R3 , Elmarit 35mm f2.5 first series , Fuji

Reala 100 , Print by Sam frontier 370<div></div>

[didjiman]

Untilt the horizon

[thomas_mani]

Better, crop the horizon

[andrew_rose]

I like the horizon like that. You need the horizon because it opens up the picture and the

tilt works I think.

[max_fun]

I think I like the horizon tilted, but I need to see the whole horizon. With it tilted and cut off, it feels like its a mistake. In lieu of this, I would suggest to crop it, but make sure you don't crop off the head, so you might have to untilt it slightly before you crop.

 

But love the colours and saturation of the photo. What film did you use by any chance?

[stephen_persky]

I love the colors and the light on the boy's face. The image is bothersome with the tilted horizon. If you can fix that tilt then you will have a great image.

 

good luck

[steve_chan5]

I like the off-kilter horizon - it breaks a basic rule, but it adds a little interest to the left side and somehow balances the 2 sides of the picture. I don't think you planned it that way, but for me, it works. If the horizon extended all the way to the right side, it wouldn't work.

[h._p.]

I'm another in the 'untilt' camp, although I think that cropping it out would be better. Apart from that, I like it.

[lutz]

Khiem, it's a nice picture of your son, treasure it as such. As for the ongoing debate on the horizon/tilting, here are my 0.02. Leave the "tilt" as is - better to have a slightly tilted horizont than having a boy tilted to the right (with a wide angle tilted downwards you have to compromise somehow) - it's a kid pic, anyway, so a bit of dynamics is perfectly okay with me. I would just recomend that you crop off the tiniest bit on top, just enough to leave the head untouched, so that the horizon is cut off from the center to the right (you can imitate that effect by scrolling the page down). It will make your picture less "busy" and the view won't be detracted any more from your main subject. Cheers.

[andy_aitken]

Nice portrait. I'd have it hand printed and hung on your wall cropped just as it is.

[mikep1]

Colorful pic! The focus is a bit soft but perhaps that was intentional. I would also vote for cropping the horizon out.

[perry]

Crop and Clone.<div></div>

[Landrum Kelly]

Nice work, Perry. Yeah, that field coud be extended more or less indefinitely to give the needed head clearance.

[al_kaplan1]

I like it just the way it is. The tilt adds just enough "tension" to the composition to make it interesting. The cropped version makes the boy look like he's almost falling forward! Nice shot.

[Alex_Es]

I'm for the tilt.

[derek_stanton2]

I'd say either More tilt, or No tilt. This seems like a 'half-step' and so it looks like an

accident. I do like the cropped/altered versions.

 

Do you have others from this scene?

[walterh]

Khiem - you can learn you first important lesson about photography - and its free ! :-P

 

the comments above show it very clearly. ask people about a photograph and you get many answers- whats important is what you feel and what you think. its a great forum and its fun to have the input - but finally its all in the creative human :-)

 

if the image feels goog for you - thats it.

 

cheers

walter

[Landrum Kelly]

Well-said, Walter, and surely the first corollary is that one should always prepare a photo for public presentation as if no one would ever see it besides oneself.