Beside Myselfby
MarkArtisanComment by mpeters: Hi from a Critique Club member. Here is the critique you requested. If you have any questions please feel free to PM me. Hopefully I can offer a couple of helpful thoughts.
First impression: A little grainy for my taste, and my attention goes right to moustache.
Composition: As it was a shadow challenge, the position of shadow is in a good spot, looking into the open part of the picture. As I said before, my eye goes towards the person casting the shadow first. NOt sure why, although I think it may be the eye contact made with the viewer. Image may have been strengthened a little by rotating your nose towards the wall to make a more definite shadow of your face.
TEchnical(lighting, focus): Again, grainy for my taste but that is my opinion only. It may have been your purpose. Lighting seems flat and I cant tell where your focus is placed. The white areas are overexposed, causing a loss of detail around the edges of the shadow. I believe this overexposure also lessons the impact of the shadow as it is very light in color. BW was a good choice for this particular picture.
Challenge: met the challenge, but soft focus images seem to do very poorly on DPC, even when they are done on purpose.
Hopefully there is at least one thing here that you find valuable. Keep on shooting.
Regards,
Mark
P.S. I just pulled down a 3.9xx in the motion panning so I don't consider myself an expert by any means, just someone who likes to learn by taking an indepth look at other photos. :)
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