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07/21/2015 11:20:43 AM |
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*
The lovely blue sky and white clouds adds an appealing backdrop to a rather ordinary snapshot.
Hope you had an enjoyable holiday in Sydney, I've never had the pleasure myself so I am unfamiliar with the area. Looking at your image I have several issues which stop me from appreciating it as much as you would probably like me to so I will try to address them in a constructive way that I hope you will feel of benefit to you.
First of all I do not have a strong focal point so my eyes are wandering randomly over the image trying to settle on something. The foreground is dominated by the empty paved area, in the distance there are red and yellow traffic features whose colours dominate, I am then confronted with a fence that is also acting as a barrier to me getting to the relatively more interesting parts of the image. When I get past that I have a telegraph pole that splits a huge boat in two that in itself has also had its stern chopped off.
Just looking at the space we have here I would have moved probably right to the waters edge so that I could remove all these unwanted distractions. I don't think I can use the telegraph pole as an interesting feature so I would have positioned myself to the left of it. I think there is potential to contrast the boat on the right of my frame with the skyscrapers simply due to its sheer size. I probably could only capture the front half but that has enough repetition of the windows to form a counterpoint to the windows of the buildings. So, I now have the front half of the boat on my right the harbour waters leading me into the buildings in the background, I think this would have made a much more interesting image.
This was probably just a holiday snap taken while enjoying everything your location has to offer but it is no excuse not to carefully weigh up all the options in front of you and then carefully check all the detail in your viewfinder before committing to the image. Although each digital image is effectively free of cost you should regard it as if you are using film and take your time to make every single image special, the more you do this the more you will learn and the more you will get out of your photography. Keep at it, Sid |
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