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Critiquing, judging and Scoring of Photographs

Posted by JL Morris on October 4, 2008

Santa Barbara Island Greeter

Posted under Animals, Color, Critiqued

Santa Barbara Island GreeterMost people with a camera are drawn to taking pictures of animals, particularly when they have the opportunity of shooting wild animals.  These subjects are exotic, hard to come by and something you don’t see every day.  Unfortunately almost all of us don’t have  the time or we don’t take the time to study the subject and find unique ways of capturing the image.

This little fellow is accustomed to people being around and posing for the visitors.  The large wood beam he is resting on makes a good contrast to the textured rock all around.  This image does not have the look of a zoo shot even with the manmade objects in the composition.

I would like to suggest taking this shot as the photographer has done and then look for other possibilities for images that are more interesting and have stronger graphic elements.  This may be difficult if not impossible but the goal when photographing is to get compositions that are different from the norm and capture the imagination of the viewer.

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