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Critiquing, judging and Scoring of Photographs

Posted by JL Morris on August 28, 2008

Fishy

Posted under Color, Critiqued, Still Life

FishyOne of the things cameras are good at is recoding pictures.  This sounds simplistic but the photo-artist needs to go beyond recording events and start interpreting them, making their images unique to their vision, their eye.  The photo-artist wants to be that one photographer in ten whose images are different and standout.

This is a quite mobile, a humorous toy.  I like the bright color and simple background.  The photographer has composed the image with space in the front of the subject giving some room for it to move into.

The viewer may note that the image appears to be a little soft.  With a subject like this with its relatively shallow depth we would expect it to be extremely sharp.  Perhaps the shot was hand held and a little shake was introduced.  Above all I would like to see a little more of the photographer in the image, more creativity rather than recording a quite subject.

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Fishy

One Response to “Fishy”

  1. Fred Widney Says:

    The picture was a photo of the day exercise. The mobile was hanging from an overhead light cluster. The camera was on a tripod and was triggered by it’s self timer. I was holding a diffuser disk in one hand and the background in the other. Any movement caused the mobile to twist a little - probably caused the soft focus.

    Jim - thanks for your comments. I just finished a macro class and still need some work on setups.

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