jon_fernquest

I love the juxtaposition of the grey vertical castle wall with the green and brown fields below. The mist and river just peeping out a bit adds mystery too.

I guess it would be difficult to capture the full dynamic range of all light in the frame, from the sky to the deep shadows of the courtyard, but it also be difficult to orient the the shot (what is top? what is bottom?) making the photo even more thought provoking.

The stains on the yellow paint and the hanging laundry add nice dischordant notes to an otherwise symmetric and centered composition.

 

This picture is one of the *most engaging* I've come across in the Street photography section of the Photo Criticism Forum.

I like the Y shaped geometry/composition given by the car tracks and road and the stone face of the building and webwork of branches in the trees, great detail, but the deep shadow on the left is a little distracting. Can it be dodged a bit in Photoshop.

 

This is one of the best photos I've seen in the Streets section of the Photo criticism Forum today.

The yellow light reflected off the pavement has an interesting quality to it and the way the street is tightly framed by the two rows of buildings is cool too, but when I see this photo I feel like I want to get closer and see the detail on the two faces of buildings up ahead.

I like the composition, although it should be cropped a little to make the person and the concrete rail he is sitting on take up more of the picture and the shadow that runs along the top is distracting, even more so because it blends into the person's black hair. Maybe you could lightly dodge this shadow a bit with photoshop.

The grainy glass and high contrast lighting silhouettes the subject. Faceless, he is anonymous, an essential characteristic of life on the street. The upwards drifting cigarette smoke gives a feeling of time wasting away, slowly.

 

This photo is a unique contribution and warrants recognition.

The broad fields of slowly changing color are great and the thin trajectory of the road leads you in to the center of the picture is also cool.

 

The not-too-overstated clouds are great too. An empty sky wouldn't make it I guess, but I've seen way too many overstated clouds, they almost seem to have become a postcard cliche.

 

I like the way the close cropping and deep shadows isolate the white and blue (hull) fields of color and force you treat them as things in themselves. (They hardly seem part of a boat).