Forum: Photography


Subject: Constructive Critique for March 22, 2007

TwoPynts opened this issue on Mar 21, 2007 ยท 22 posts


girsempa posted Thu, 22 March 2007 at 11:27 AM

I'll focus my critique on the subjective, emotional quality of the image this time. Right away, the image gives me the impression of being threatened by those huge vessels. It seems like a big wall of dangerous giants that's blocking my view and my safe way out. The fact that you caught the shadowed side may be of influence here (as if they prevent me from seeing the sunny side). The missing vanishing point (as Rich stated) could have given the image some breathing space, which I really miss at this point. That's the dominating impression for me: threat, huge claustrofobe 'walls', occlusion, blocking of view... I have no (emotional or other) bond with boats like this, so there's no prejudice (good nor bad). All I can say is that I don't get a happy feeling from looking at them. Although I have always found such boats impressive and fascinating to look at, that's not working here... on the contrary. Here they come across as very obtrusive and hostile, especially when they're lined up like that. Well, I tried to give some impressions from a different approach (emotional content is just one of the focus points of an image). I hope it can be useful in some way...


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