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Critique By:
Sérgio Vieira (K:3384)
9/21/2004 11:38:20 AM
Great composition and colours! It's all just working together there: the recently planted rice leads to the woman working, and the woman defines the limit and the curve of the other rice. The diference in texture of the two parts of rice just adds a lot of rhythm and interest to the photo.
Maybe it would work way better if you had used a polarizer filter to take that white sky out of the water. Have you tried to take a bit of that gaze out in PS?
And maybe crop that litle dark line in the top of the photo?
Best regards,
Sérgio
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| Photo By: Girish Menon
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Critique By:
Sérgio Vieira (K:3384)
5/5/2004 4:16:17 PM
Amanda,
I think this is one of your best photos here!
This is so well done... the proportions, the angle, the softness, the red and it's shadows...
There is one thing though that bothers me, the framing. Horizontally I think is quite good that those shadows were left out of it. They would unbalance the composition. You could howhever changed the angle a bit? I think I would like a litle more spacce there. But vertically I think you should have left more space above rather then bellow the flower. If you think in terms of colours, and thats what your photo is about, the stem doesn't have a relevant part in there. Your composition includes it as relevant for it. I just think you should have given it a lesser role in it. 
But that is just a detail Amanda, I really like this photo. I'm sure you have more of those, just upload them!
Rated it 6 for:
originality (as always)
great eye
composition
colour
I didn't rate it 7 (EC like quality) for:
framing
Best regards,
Sérgio
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| Photo By: Amanda Hensley
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Critique By:
Sérgio Vieira (K:3384)
4/21/2004 3:16:34 AM
Amanda,
This is a very original self-portrait. Well seen and composed and I really liked it a lot.
But you really got yourself in a tricky light situation there in two aspects:
1. The dark tones of your clothes against the strong light from the window.
2. The white cast from the light from the direct reflection from the mirror.
The first one is good if you want to highlight the background until it has no detail. But then you have to do this:
1. Focus your camera to the subject (light measuring is afected by the focus distance).
2. Put your hand or a medium-grey card filling all your centerweight meter.
3. Adjust the camera to 0 (or level the needle).
The other one, the cast, is like having your camera pointing to the sun. The cast can be fixed after and is good if you want high key, it will give a difuse look to your photo.
What happened IMreallyHO, is that you measured your camera to the correct light situation. And I believe it has center-weightned metering, wich means it will evaluate the light more in the center and a litle percentage on the rest of the frame. So has your clothes where not only dark but with the light from behind, even if you compensated the meter, it would still be a tricky measure.
I don't know if you understand this (maybe you already do) but I drew this anyway (ops! yes over your photo ) so I could explain better.
I also made another version with the correct metering in you (and no cast). I will post it after.
If you have any doubts or reclamations please feel free to let me know.
Congratulations on a very original portfolio!
Best regards,
Sérgio
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| Photo By: Amanda Hensley
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