Forum: Photography


Subject: Constructive Criticism

Kristanene opened this issue on Nov 30, 2006 ยท 10 posts


girsempa posted Thu, 30 November 2006 at 6:07 PM

Shall I be the first..? This shot has some potentially good elements. However I think they don't come out very well due to some points that I'll try to explain. You have the baby and the supporting hands as main focus points. Although the hands seem to be in a perfectly logical position, I have a feeling that they are somewhat on the wrong side of the baby... because the baby is looking to the right, but there's nothing left on the right side to support the composition in the direction that the baby's looking at. Other thing is the lighting. Lighting can fill an image, support the composition and guide the viewer's eye... Here, the lighting seems to come very evenly from the front, leaving no dynamic shadow/light distribution on the subject itself. A bit more light from above and less from down under would keep the focus more on the main subject, and in the good direction, that is in the space between the baby and the (absent) supporting person. And I still have the feeling that the 'missing person' is actually really missing in the composition... I mean, where is the baby looking..? I believe that the viewer wants to see the subject of the baby's attention... If your main focus was on the hands and the baby, and you didn't want to include the other person, it would help if the baby wasn't looking in the exact opposite direction... Just some thoughts...


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