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Dave Glover

9 Years Ago

Critique

Please let me know what you think. Your honest feedback is appreciated.

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Barry Lamont

9 Years Ago

Hi Dave..you'll get a flood of critiques from the experts soon enough.. But to give it to you from an unqualified sculptors point of view.. I'd square it up!.. Peace! :-)

 

Stanislav Killer

9 Years Ago

id crop it 3:1

nothing happening in the sky

 

Dave,

What bridge is this? Perhaps a little knowledge about the place may add some dimension to the viewer... if they know where this place is.

I agree with Stanislav, except to say that I just don't see anything that draws me in. The photo has lots of noise and very little detail. Might be something to save as a backdrop but there is nothing that captures my imagination.

Sorry, but that's it in a nutshell. Keep on trucking.

 

Barry Lamont

9 Years Ago

On further consideration Dave... I'm not sure if there is a problem with the horizon... It may be an optical illusion??? It looks as if it is rising to the left.. I'll have to get a ruler...lol

 

Murray Bloom

9 Years Ago

Frankly, this one doesn't do anything for me. It certainly doesn't live up to your glowing description. I think there's too much sky, and the buildings are a distraction.

Barry, the bridge is receding toward the left. You'd expect some rise.

 

Heather Applegate

9 Years Ago

Basically it's on the bland side, super noisy and rather blurry in the green box...

Taken from closer to the bridge, with the bridge going away from you as a leading line might have more interest, but since the bridge doesn't have much character to begin with it might not help, but it can't hurt to practice different angles.

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

as a thumb, all i see is a row of lights and that's it. larger... it looks like a row of lights. there isn't a whole lot of interest in this. it's just a line of lights all kind of glaring. it's also very noisy and probably won't print. it's also not that sharp. your description has a spelling error and well, don't say what you said. tell them the location and not the surprise you had. it's like hearing a baker say - wow i'm surprised it actually came out.

compositionally, there is too much sky and water, with few to little landmarks. a better angle would be looking down the bridge looking down the arches. a better time for this place is when the sun is setting and you get a nice purplish sky, because of all the negative space you really want it to be doing something. it should be more than just the lights.


---Mike Savad

 

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