melchi_manoah_michel

I am also an amateur and therefore have no idea about marketing, but this is indeed a great shot, and good question also.

 

Thanks for the thoughtful and wonderfully thoughtful critique. I see what you mean; the young man's face does seem devoid of emotion. Unfortunately, it was the only shot I got that captured the girl's expression well. It was a dynamic scene in a fairly crowded place and I did not have a long enough lens with me to get a well composed shot that isolated her. I took two other frames, but neither of them captured that look. You're right that this is just a "capture the moment" sort of shot. So here is a later shot that , while admittedly less spectacular, better represents the nature of this interaction.

Please comment.

The girl is in no danger. She was playing with her brother when she accidentally hurt him. In this photo, her concern is for her brother; the young man in the left half of the frame is only trying to comfort her.

I see what you mean regarding where the water seems to end and I'll see if I can find a lighter print of this photo that has more water detail, but I don't really understand your comment regarding the proportion of the hand to the drops of water. P.S. My comment above was really meant to be a preemptive request intended for future critics.

I have absolutely no problem with getting low ratings. If, however, you give one of my photos such a rating, please have the courteousy to qualify your critique with a comment. This forum is for me a learning environment, and if you find my photography technically lacking or dreadfully banal, I would like to know how it suffers so that I might improve it.

I have absolutely no problem with getting low ratings. If, however, you give one of my photos such a rating, please have the courteousy to qualify your critique with a comment. This forum is for me a learning environment, and if you find my photography technically lacking or dreadfully banal, I would like to know how it suffers so that I might improve it.

I have absolutely no problem with getting low ratings. If, however, you give one of my photos such a rating, please have the courteousy to qualify your critique with a comment. This forum is for me a learning environment, and if you find my photography technically lacking or dreadfully banal, I would like to know how I could improve it.

What happened to the other two points? This is perhaps the best photograph on this site. My heart was broken when I tried to view it last month and could not find it. Did you temporarily remove it? Anyway, I'm glad it's back; if any image on photo.net deserves double 10's, this is it.

nothing to say.

Wow!

Amazing. Great tonal structure. Impeccable use of shallow field depth. I have some opinions regarding the composition, but I will keep them to myself until I am capable of comparable results. Great Photo!