Chairs In Soft Focus

You requested a comment on this one.

Still life/landscape/urban landscape/fine art subjects can be hard to critique until we know what the artist is 'saying' or he has a 'body of work' in the same genre that speaks for him.

Here,the theme is 'repetition' but it is not precise repetition, and you may want to think 'how' and 'why' you chose the spacing of the chairs as so.

By stepping back, forward or sideways, this might have been an entirely different photo, and same for the amount of space around the chairs, left and right. You might think of how the foreground subject (chair) fits in with the background (wall) and its texture as well as the grass surrounding, and its texture -- a complex process in which to seek synchronicity, and maybe a hard one in which to find it. Howevermuch the subject is 'chairs' it is also the environment - foreground and background, in which chairs are placed, and that should be important to you, as the chairs seem movable. (I don't know if this is a spontaneous capture, or if posed/arranged).

If I were taking it, I think I would have left a little less space, left and a little more right, as well as not letting the foremost chair overlap with the middle distance chair, but that's my photo, not yours.

This photo tends a little to the gray, rather than more black and white and needs,a stronger contrast and a little more 'punch' just as 'film' would have delivered, soft focus or not.

Having a 'soft focus' photo also be 'washed out' in grays, however, may be your artistic decision, and I cannot presume to judge that.

In the end, 'art' is what pleases you, not me, and without being aware of your 'vision' for this photo, I can offer no further help.

But these suggestions (about positioning in framing the photo and about reproduction) should be responsive to your request, I hope.

I am pleased that you asked.

john

John (Crosley)