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02/01/2004 05:43:25 PM |
**Critique club**
This image suffers from a number of tiny flaws. You have the makings of a good image here, though. Post-shooting editing would help you a lot.
Firstly, let's consider the age-old advice about filling the frame. You have roughly 3 content areas: the sky, the snow and the animal. The sky is boring, so cut that out. Interest lies in the animal, mainly and in the snow. Cropping around the animal would help give this image more punch and help the viewer focus in on the subject. Kill the sky. Zooming right in would also help eliminate some of the distracting fences.
Next, we need to think about exposure. I don't know if you relied on the autoexposure in your camera or not, but I think here that the snow and the face are underexposed - both signs of automatic metering at work. Generally, you need to compensate up by 1.5 stops for snow. That would, incidentally, help the face, too. Personally, I would manually meter for the snow and the face and choose a reading which helped both, rather than rely on autometering.
Thirdly, focus. Although it's generally okay, there isn't any spot which jumps out at me. Using f8 was probably a result of trying to get the whole shot in with your camera's shutter capacity. I'd have used a ND filter, opened up the f-stop to it's widest, then focussed on the eyes.
The lack of a sharp focal points indicates another weakness here. Metaphorically, there isn't really a focal point, either. This is just an animal in a field. What's the animal feeling? doing? thinking? You need to find your point and develop your shot for that. The above points of exposure, composition and focus would all be pulled into a tight co-ordination once your subject point is organised.
Finally, a word about titles. I see from your profile that you're a musician writing music for your band. That's great. If you also write the lyrics, too, you'll understand that need for titles which are designed well. You might consider retitling your shot, too. I'd think about poetic rules, such as rhythm, assonance, alliteration and so on. (You've started with the 'M' theme, might that be made more meaningful?)
If you have any comments on this critique, please feel free to contact me.
Best wishes,
Jim
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01/22/2004 08:32:41 AM |
| Really Mildred is hiding, Actually this is Toro the bull Elk with his mighty antlers cut-off for others. |
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01/21/2004 03:52:59 PM |
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01/20/2004 06:29:34 AM |
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01/19/2004 03:50:43 PM |
| nice golden colors. It sort of jump out from my computer monitor. Great shot. |
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01/19/2004 02:21:19 PM |
| I think that is an Elk not a moose. lol Grand looking either one. |
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01/19/2004 01:03:44 PM |
isn't she an elk?
anyway.. average interest... a bit grey. |
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01/19/2004 09:30:39 AM |
| This is actually an elk, but still nicely done. |
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01/19/2004 06:14:20 AM |
| I'd like to see more of Mildred and less of the farm. |
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01/19/2004 05:07:21 AM |
| Crop to focus on the subject and mitigate the effects of the fense in the background. Also, probably should have shot it maybe +2/3 or +1 EV to get the snow to be pure white (or fix in Photoshop, of course). |
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01/18/2004 11:24:12 PM |
| It's very hard, but i think when shooting at a zoo type place you have to really try to crop out the fence. |
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