From the Critique Club
Hello Chris,
First Impressions: You did a nice job finding a subject for "Secondary Colors" in its own environment. It's a good idea to keep looking for oportunities to take photos.
Challenge: The secondary colours show best in the orange and green sodas and the purple background for the label on the orange soda. It is sad that the middle soda is not really a secondary (at least on my monitor it shows in tones of red and wine, not purple). I think that lessens the picture's impact.
Composition: The angle from which you took the picture makes it look a bit like an "ad". It's an interesting angle. It might be nice not to have a second row of sodas behind (blank background). I personally like the way you show only part of the bottles to the sides.
Focus/Lighting: Focus and lighting is adequate, but the glare reflecting off the bottles takes away from your picture. The colours of the soda, especially the middle bottle, are a bit too dark. It would be hard to change the lighting in a public space, but you could try to set up a similar scene at home, and play around with lighting.
Overall: Nice composition, meets the challenge, but feels too much like a quick snapshot, not like a polished entry. Keep at it!
Ursula (uabresch)
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