Candid Composition

After 10 months on Photo.Net, I am finally starting to think about

aesthetics and originality before submitting an image for critique.

There is nothing very original about this shot other than seeing the

shot among a crowd of people. So I give myself a [5] for good job

for making the image. As for aesthetics, that?s a different story.

The colors, the lines, and the subject join to make a visually and

interesting image. I rate aesthetics a [5] as well. I would have

like to seen the young man?s eyes but that didn?t happen. What are

your thoughts?

Very clean image, great composition.

I rate this EXELLENT photo with a 7/6.

 

Why ?

 

The quality of the photo is supurb., the angle and compo is also great.Light - and some shadow in his face & shirt - are also a gift.

 

The clean marble wall in combination with that other and totaly different wall makes it TOP.

 

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Howard., it took me longer than 1-hour to translate and interpretad your comment on my photo ( bye ).

I like to express my thanks for your special story/comment/direction.

 

Kind regards.,

Loft

I like the colors and lighting in this. The wall splitting the composition in half also seems to work well. Well done!

My thoughts are that this is a very clean, clear, and crisp picture that is well composed and has very nice colors. An attractive young black man with an interesting pose. You're too hard on yourself. 6/6.

I like better than you do Howard 6-6

Don't say such strange things, this just wonderfull, how this boy is sitting, the composition of it is wonderfull, and give yorselff a 5/5 is not bad isn't it, it means GOOD. so also from me 6/6

The blues really catch my eye in this....there's alot of lines going on here. A different expression than you usually see...

The "Man with the Golden Gun,"...even Spiderman has his ups and downs...so snap out of it, MGG! IMHO, you have a gift for taking candids, and this is a good example of such genre. It wouldn't be a candid if the young man stared right into the camera, would it? His pose gives a Tracy Chapman feel, but the fresh, blue color and flowing water somehow symbolize hope and joy (let me warn you that I'm no Feng-Sui master.) Throw in that randomly distributed rays of light on the young man, we have quite a nice image going. I often try to comment constructively, in a way that I see how an image can be improved. In this instance, perhaps warm up the color balance to give him more pleasing skin tone, and secondly (optional,) I would condense the pillar to give the overall image a better balance. Again, hope MGG doesn't mind my posting...

Well done on this one Howard. I agree with you about the P.Net thoughts. It has really helped me focus on those areas and having found some friends to get honest critiques from who are themselves quite gifted, I feel I have leap frogged in my skills.

 

This image has an unusual affect on me. My first reaction was that it had a strong impact. I looked at it for a while and then thought, well... nothing really grabs me and yet it kept holding my attention.

 

That shadows and the clean blue / grey / white tones work well together. I personally don't like to see eyes all the time. That, for me, makes me feel that the shot was staged and in a candid shot, not seeing the eyes really works.

If he were looking at the camera, the photo would have turned out completely different. I like the way he is posing... but I find too much wall on the left (the image seems divided in two parts).. I would have moved the whole image a little bit to the left, including some more of the sitting man, and less uninteresting wall.

Very good Howard. But I wonder why people always want one to reduce a picture to a norm with which all the lowest denominators can be satisfied. In that case, it's no longer the author taking the picture but a pool of viewers. I agree that any flagrant discrepancies can and should be pointed out, but we must leave some room for an artists to express himself. Personally, I like this photo exactly as it is and I would have told you if it wasn't so. I don't think you should reduce the photo to a postcard style image. I also prefer the wider frame in which the young man's obvious sentiments can wander. I don't agree either that he should look at the camera, in which case all the intimacy and raison d'etre of the picture would disappear.

Very nice composition. Must agree with the Wilson Tsoi version. Ragards.

Howard,

I totaly disagree with your rating! This is one of your strongest canid images! The color on the bricks along with his shirt keeps me in the image. Overall composition is wonderful and clean. 7/6. Congrats on a great capture! Regards, Ronnie

Howard, I agree with what was said, and with Wilson's crop as well, as it brings more balance to the composition ( I would have croped the bright part of the pillar even a bit more). Pnina

I love the colors and the subject is wonderful. I like the way the blue in his shirt is echoed in the wall and ground. I do like Wilson's crop.