March August melbourne

Marcello,

You shot a very serviceable news photo.  It may not have the drama for a front page photo in most papers, but would make a good inside photo.

I have a couple of suggestions to make the photo stronger.  First, I don't know your intention, but I would crop about a third of the top of the photo out.  It doesn't add to the photo unless your point is to make Melbourne the topic of the photo.  As Bill Allard always says, edit out anything that is not the picture.  I wonder if the photo is a "Hail, Mary" shot taken with the camera held high about your head???  I always take several photos when shooting such a way, each with the camera tilted a little more up (or down) to ensure I get a framing that is best.

My second suggestion is that while the picture has impact for the scale of the march and the people involved, there is no particular focal point or subject for the photo.  Whenever I have to make a photo of such an event, I try to find a particular person or emotion or something that becomes the focus of the picture with the event being the context.  Unless, as I said, the point of the photo is the size of the crowd.

Anyway, just my ramblings.

Good shooting.

Steven

Hi Steven!

your experience and advice is much appreciated and invaluable to me. I agree about the cropping (i tried it and looks much better!), and you are right about focusing on an action within the crowd. I will keep this in mind for future shots! This advice does help, especially in the context of news media work etc...

Thank you so much!