joe_hodge

I appreciate how the shape of the horse with head turned echos the shape of the mountain in the background. I think this would not be nearly as good if the horse were facing forward.

 

Technically, the plane of focus looks to be a bit behind the eye, but it doesn't really detract from the overall image in my opinion.

I'm not sure what to say about this. Overall, the image looks like a miss: looking at her eye, the focus seems to be off, and the whole image is a bit soft. The colors also looks off judging by the logo on the sweatshirt, which I presume is white.

 

This might be improved by some post-processing to sharpen and fix the colors, but I suspect that the missed focus is unfixable.

That's quite the 'vegetable garden'! I like the composition - the angled rows, and the way it seems to go on forever. Is the soil light-colored or is under direct bright sun?

Can I ask what sort of critique you're looking for?

 

She's attractive, the pose is interesting and I assume intended to play off the 'rock & roll' tatoo. Focus is a touch soft for my taste, but is that intentional?

I like the capture of the lightning, but I'd crop out some of the right and bottom blackness. Was this the image you were trying to capture? The setting info is weird; not that it really matters, but I am curious if it was a long exposure, or if all that lightning struck at once.

Looking to get back in the darkroom after many years. This was developed at home and scanned, and I think it is technically fairly sound, but I'd like comments and especially pointers on what to do differently for printing vs scanning.

I'd like opinions of this crop of

href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4220852">this

original

. I found the two people in front of the windshield a bit

distracting.

Even though I live in Washington, DC., I've seen very, very few

cicadas around my house. When I caught this shot, it summed up my

thoughts on the "return of the cicadas" perfectly.

I've left this a bit soft to evoke the drowsy feeling of a comfortable

bed on a warm day. Does it work for you?

Yep, this is just here for a limited technical critique.

 

I took this on a house & garden tour this past weekend which was conducted during a bright, direct sunny afternoon. Since I could not pick the light and can't go back to most of the locations easily, I'm working on saving the shots digitally.

 

The high contrast in a lot of my outdoor shots is challenging, and it's hard to judge my own work after a while.

 

I've chosen to lose some detail in the shadows to try to save the highlights without making the light look "gentle" or "flat", since that wouldn't represent the scene properly.

 

Here is the shot before manipulation (other than a touch of USM):

 

Oh, this is a playground at DC's Capitol Hill Day School.

I've had to do some work on this image to handle the high contrast

range. Does the lighting look un-natural, and if so, what about it

looks wrong?

Sorry about the large image, but it is hard to see in a smaller size:

is the panda's face motion-blurred, or did I just blow the focus? I

can't decide, and it probably doesn't matter for the 5 x 7 print I'm

having made, but I'd appreciate a few opinons.

Does the leg in the lower left hand corner of this detract from the

composition for you? Do you think that a tighter crop around the

drummers would improve this, or just make it feel cramped?

The blurring on this does not look natural. I realize that this had been manipulated, to focus my eyes on his his I suppose, but I do not find it attractive. My immediate impression is of his face being dramatically sunken in.

The little dark spot in the upper-right (plant?) would drive me mad. On the other hand, The motion-blurred bride's shoe makes this for me. Please consider my rating to be "as if that dark spot were cropped".

Sweet light, and a great job of capturing it. The only thing I might, and I do mean MIGHT, change would be the uneven darkening of the sky. Manipulating the polarizer might give a more even deep blue to the sky.

I'm not really sure it would be be an improvement, though. The sky is interesting now, but kind of flat when I play with it.

I think this shot needs an identifiable subject. As a background I might like it, but on it's own it seems lacking. The actual exposure seems OK, if maybe a bit bright.

This picture is a little large for the web.

I would crop away a lot of the background. I don't think it adds much to the shot. Also, the lighting is harsh, and the detail in the fur looks blown out all along the shoulder. Some of this can be tweaked in PS, but it would be a better exposure if the light were more gentle and even.

Overall, an OK snapshot, but could be better.

The dog IS cute.

Great colors and light. Bit of a shame about the green blob in the foreground, though. I find it quite distracting.

Heh, not the "lighthouse on a cliff" that I was expecting before I scrolled down. Very nice exposure. I might frame or crop it a bit differently, but then again I might not. What do you think of emphasizing the horizontal a bit?

Nicely exposed and composed. I like the distribution of the flowers agains the greenery.

At first I thought "PhotoShop", but now I think "moving car window". Either way, pretty nice, but I rather hope for the "analogue" explanation.

It is colorful, to be sure.

I'm not really sure what you are aiming for with the translucent windowpane effect; especially the slightly gray/lightened pane in the upper-left and the scaled pane at the bottom. The entire picture is pretty abstract, and strikes me as more graphic art than a photograph.

It's what you like that counts, certainly; I just can't manage to look at brown(ish) and see the sea. I like the monochrome, but would probably go for more of a blue-black.

I like the composition and lighting in this shot, but something about the coloration bothers me a bit. The entire picture looks to have a slight brownish cast that doesn't jive with my ideas of what water looks like. I'm assuming the coloration is manipulated and intentional, so I'm curious why you chose this particular tone?