jonathan_ratzlaff

the front of the image is not sharp, the zone of focus seems to be behind the lip which detracts from the image.

 

Why did you cut off the feet of the couple? Everyone else is full length and the ceiling is not that interesting. In fact the whiteness of the ceiling draws your eye right out of the image.

Nice lighting; I have a bit of a problem with the shadow of her nose on her face.

A horizontal image of a vertical subject does not really work. This image would work better as a vertical image. The flag detracts from the image as well. From this image and others in you folder you would do well to check the edges of your veiwfinder. There are distractions at the edges of frames such as chopped off flagpoles and flags. Architecture is not going anywhere so you have a lot of time to look and compose your image.

The image should be cropped tighter in the back. This will remove the distractions behind her. The important stuff is happening in front of her.

I like the image. there is detail in the top and bottom; so I would not crop the image at all. The dark around the outside draws your eye into the center of the image. So does the white of the trees.

It looks like your camera focused on the cloth. the lettering on the metronome seems a bit soft. Something else to look at is that the brightest part of the image is right at the edge. the leading line of the shadow is sucked out at the right side of the image by the bright background. Perhaps if you had left a little more space to the right of the metronome and burned the edges to make it darker at the border of the print, this may help the issue. By taking the blue background and bringing it up in the back bou could have used a lower camera angle while maintainng the blue background.

The softnes coupled with the detail in the leaves makes for an interesting image. Now if there was something that would cqtch your eye. It is an interesting image however it lacks a center of interest. As a result it is too busy.

From the contrast range in your images, they seem to be scanned from prints. This is too bad because the hot spots lack detail and the shadows are quite dark. I think the best exposed crocus of the bunch is the one image of the two in your portfolio.

rating the film at EI 200 is a bit high from what I can remember. Your image looks a bit underexposed and flat. Unfortunately the sky is pretty featureless as you need clouds to really snap up the image. After adjusting the levels you can get an image with a bit more snap

This is a predominately monochrome image and does not need to be in black and white. It is too bad that there are a couple of conspicuous branches and plants in the foreground that detract from the fence and the barn. however they are difficult to get rid of short of cloning them out of the image.

The image has some potential. The sky is overexposed and the foreground is underesposed. This does not mean that you have to leave it that way. Select the bright portions of your image and create a layer. Use the multiply blending mode. This will darken the overexposed portions of your image. Select the shadow detail and use a screen blending mode. This will lighten the shadows. this will get you a more interesting image