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First time looking for critique
#1
Posted 27 August 2014 - 07:57 AM
#2
Posted 27 August 2014 - 08:03 AM
(I had to look up chuffed to see what that meant as I am not familiar with that term. )
I rather like that shot. Nice silhouette, nice colors. I don't know that I have the skill to grade it technically, but I know what I like, and that shot is pleasing to look at, for me.
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#3
Posted 27 August 2014 - 08:09 AM
#4
Posted 27 August 2014 - 08:10 AM
Chuffed is a Yorkshire term by the way
#5
Posted 27 August 2014 - 08:33 AM
I like the silhouette and the colours. I, personally, find the car on the right distracting and would crop it out. A 5:4 crop gives the bonus of de-centering the composition a bit.
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#6
Posted 27 August 2014 - 08:33 AM
#7
Posted 27 August 2014 - 09:15 AM
Hard to improve, except for cropping.
Maybe - but only maybe - try to ligten slightly (!) around the legs.
#8
Posted 27 August 2014 - 10:03 AM
#9
Posted 27 August 2014 - 11:48 AM
I also like this shot.... a lot! But then I'm a sucker for backlit photographs. I love the drama they impart to an image.
If I had to quibble about anything it would be the way the horizon seems ever so slightly tilted. No one else has mentioned this so it may be my imagination. Peter mentioned the car as being a distraction but frankly, until he pointed it out, I hadn't noticed it. The composition does a very good job of pulling the viewer's eye toward the subject. And, I like the current crop ratio. I suppose you might try to crop out the car and see how that works but I don't really think it's necessary. Maybe a vertical crop such as TBonz suggested. I think that would work better than a horizontal crop.
Good job!
--Ron
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#10
Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:11 PM
ET
#12
Posted 27 August 2014 - 08:38 PM
#13
Posted 27 August 2014 - 09:17 PM
#14
Posted 27 August 2014 - 09:36 PM
Also to me the car is distracting, but it can be cropped out.
Pleasing to look at.