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10/22/2006 07:56:36 AM |
Greetings from the Critique Club!
An image like this could go 100 different ways. You could have 100 different critiques from 100 different people. None of it matters - you like the image. Does this 'portrait' give me a sense of the boy in the image? Yes, I think so. Are there things I would change on a re-shoot? Yes. Are there things I would edit differently if this was the shot I had? The only thing I can think of would be to loosen the crop a little, if that's possible. The image feels confining in an uncomfortable way, like the boy's world is so limited...
If I had a reshoot? I would lower my camera angle so I'm not looking down on him. It would open up his world - children need a large world. I would ask the person on the right to move so the boy is not in shadow - children need light to grow.
I guess what I am saying is this feels more like a portrait of the photographer - even the title states that this is your world. Not his. For a protrait, I want to see his world and his place in it - I would hope it would be wide open and large. I hope that makes sense. The image itself is fine - in focus, good toning for the lighting available, composed comfortably; but for me, it doesn't move beyond a candid - the capture of a moment in time. I need more to want to look over and over again. |
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10/16/2006 12:24:29 AM |
| Very nicely done, Goran! It's a lovely portrait. |
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10/15/2006 09:46:01 PM |
| Lovely b/w capture with exciting contrast. Bump. |
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10/15/2006 02:22:26 PM |
| Crisp and nicely thought out |
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10/13/2006 04:53:38 PM |
| This is very nice. Unfortunately it's way too over sharpened for my taste. |
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10/12/2006 07:35:59 PM |
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10/12/2006 09:39:28 AM |
| the horizon is out of frame, so the boy seems paradoxically immersed in the surface of his world, which speaks so well to what it's like to be a boy. 8 |
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10/11/2006 09:53:36 AM |
| I like the subtle transition from the sandy shore to the waters. |
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10/10/2006 03:04:57 PM |
| Very clear and sharp. Nice. |
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10/09/2006 02:36:32 PM |
| Ripples on the water make this all the more special, I like it very much |
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10/09/2006 01:21:04 PM |
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