critique-June06
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Now it's your turn to evaluate an image
Choice 1 The strong verticals and repetitive pattern of the wrenches, especially because of the high contrast and good tonal qualities make this an exceptional image. Even the bright bag and paint can in the foreground works because it reinforces the idea that there is a window just outside the frame on the right.
 Choice 2 The image has all kinds of problems: The bright window on the left is too bright, as are the objects in the foreground. What looks like a hose or perhaps a bicycle tire on the left is distracting. The image might be improved by much tighter cropping.

 

 

 

 

 


No. 2 June 2006

It is invariably useful to ask What is the photograph about? A set of wrenches? a corner of a barn? The personal habits of the farmer who owns the barn?

What do you think moved the photographer to point his camera in that direction? Is it an image that you'd like to see hanging in your own room, or one you'd return to again and again? Is there anything there about the subject or about the formal composition--shapes, lines, texture, patterns, etc that really moves you?

Are there any aspects that distract from the strength of the image:
— are the objects in the foreground too       light? or the window?
— not enough detail in the shadows?
— too many objects in the image?