submit a photo to the urban75 critics
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army_of_one
on the giddy edge
Is the photo on it's side or is that the way it's meant to be viewed?
army_of_one
on the giddy edge
I had the exact same feeling when I first saw it. Compositionally it's great, but there is nothing to continue the story IYKWIM.
extra dry
Happy to be here
Marc Fairhurst
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I live not far from that place. I was actually on the other side of it and didn't even know that passeway existed. If anyone's ever going let me know. Would love to photograph it.
Marc Fairhurst
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Rogue_Leader
Almost not completely ignorant.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
I really like this photo. It's very well composed, and the color tones are sumptuous.
If you're looking for critiqe: it feels just slightly crooked. You can see it if you look at the shoreline and the trees. Probably 1% correction would handle it.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Yep, it's on the piss. Assuming the pic shown is the full source image, if you correct it you'll knock out the edges when cropped to a rectangle, but since it's all empty blue, just make up some more (PS' Content Aware Fill will do nicely).
mauvais
on reddit or something
No. There's no important verticals or horizontals - and water is flat, so it's not about some false manipulation that will break something else, it's just about making it look right.
Johnny Canuck3
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Are you able to enlarge that to the same size as the original? I'd like to be able to compare the overall impact with equivalent sizes.
[I'm not technically proficient enough to do it myself.]
RoyReed
Must fly!
It's too large to post here (about 9MB). PM me with your email address and I'll send it to you.
fractionMan
Custom Title
. Hmm.
RoyReed
Must fly!
I could make it smaller than 9MB by increasing the jpeg compression. I saved it at 100% quality from the original file on Flickr.
fractionMan
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The hmm was because I posted up a photo then changed my mind 
fractionMan
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Here it is, criticism welcome:
Small version:
Bigger version:
Small version:
Bigger version:
It just doesn't work for me. You've cropped it, haven't you? There's a person in the background chopped in half. Also, your subject is looking off to the viewer's left (his right). He really needs to be looking at the ball. Why do you have that ball in the foreground, anyway? Perhaps if you were to crop it some more, cutting out that ball and the person chopped in half?
fractionMan
Custom Title
I didn't crop it, it just came out of the camera like that.
The people in the background are playing boule. The boule in the foreground has been thrown by the person he's looking at. I like this photo because to me it's obvious what's going on but not obvious why they guy has the expression he has. For some reason I like the placement of those elements, but I guess it doesn't resonate with others.
Cheers for the comment, it's appreciated.
You've captured the guy perfectly, and I like the way you've got the grass in focus. I just think the photo should focus solely on him. If you were to cut out the foreground boule and remove the person chopped in half, it could be a good character study, with the out-of-focus game in the background to give a setting, just to indicate he's watching something.
See what I mean? There's no longer the distracting person cut in half, and there's a single point of focus. Note that there's a loss of picture quality because I've worked on your jpeg and saved it back as a jpeg. There's also an annoying something (a gap in the tree?) which looks like a blemish just above the man's head, and should probably be removed. I am hopeless at painting, so my efforts to correct it in MS Paint were laughable. It likely needs a blending tool.
Johnny Canuck3
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It's a pretty good photo; nice flat depth of field, the photo is balanced by the er, bocce? players in the background.
Johnny Canuck3
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All criticism welcome. I'm a beginner.Cropped from a bigger shot (too much crap in the background). Looks over exposed. Probably picked the wrong day (grey sky) and doesn't look particularly sharp. Suggestions?
I think you need to be a bit further back. The sculpture is imposing enough that it needs a bit more of the surroundings to give it place. It's also hard to tell what's behind it on the right. It might be a building, or it might be overexposed sky.
It was a grey day. I'll take a few more shots of it so you can get some context. The problem with moving further back is that it's surrounded by estate agents and other random shops etc which I didn't really want in the shot.
Johnny Canuck3
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Good thing about outdoor sculptures etc, is they can always be revisited. There are a couple of places around here that I go back to every couple of years to see if my take on the place has changed.
Yeah. And I won't ever be happy until I get the perfect shot with this, either. It's from my hometown/childhood. I like the artistically added red paint though.
Need to get the perfect shot before that's removed by the council.Similar threads
