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Well I like it, and we love Italy in our house.
The photograph, yes I like the fact that you can see only half of the persons, due to the shadow.
The man is the mystery for me, what is he carrying , another child, a loaf of bread, and I like a bit of that mystery in photographs.
I must say before I look silly, I am very amateur when it comes to all aspects of photography, so its hard for me to critique.
If it were my photograph, I would crop out the sky
Sky's really bother me now, simply because I have a very difficult time getting them to be attractive in my own photographs, especially on film photographs.
I think its very very good.
The photograph, yes I like the fact that you can see only half of the persons, due to the shadow.
The man is the mystery for me, what is he carrying , another child, a loaf of bread, and I like a bit of that mystery in photographs.
I must say before I look silly, I am very amateur when it comes to all aspects of photography, so its hard for me to critique.
If it were my photograph, I would crop out the sky
Sky's really bother me now, simply because I have a very difficult time getting them to be attractive in my own photographs, especially on film photographs.
I think its very very good.
Please don't undersell yourself, I hadn't even noticed the brightness of the sky. Thanks for the feedback. I deliberately under exposed it so there my be something to recover there. I'll go look.
If I remember correctly, the man was carrying a baby and holding his daughter's hand with right hand across his body. I waited for it, looking directly at the scene and ignoring the viewfinder as I had set up the composition and focus beforehand.
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Thought it might please you to know the judge made the same comment regarding the sky despite the fact I had toned down the brightness and recovered cloud detail.
I think its a very very good photograph, and I am far from being in any way or form being a judge of photographs.
Sitting through a couple of years of contests, including my own photographs, I sort of know what they will say.
But I feel, that has perfection had its day, has it again become feeling and impact that really counts.
I believe so, and I don't think perfection is required.
You captured light and humanity, feeling and love, age and youth, brilliant capture.
Well done its great.
Sitting through a couple of years of contests, including my own photographs, I sort of know what they will say.
But I feel, that has perfection had its day, has it again become feeling and impact that really counts.
I believe so, and I don't think perfection is required.
You captured light and humanity, feeling and love, age and youth, brilliant capture.
Well done its great.
No, disagree. I think you need the sky. Otherwise where is the light coming from.
By the way Oldbones, can I suggest that for film photography you get hold of a polarising, or a yellow and an orange filter. These will add interest to most skies, even if it is only to make the blue of the sky darker and less white. They don't work of course if the sky is covered with a blanket of cloud though, and I don't think they would have made any difference at all in Glenn's photo above.
By the way Oldbones, can I suggest that for film photography you get hold of a polarising, or a yellow and an orange filter. These will add interest to most skies, even if it is only to make the blue of the sky darker and less white. They don't work of course if the sky is covered with a blanket of cloud though, and I don't think they would have made any difference at all in Glenn's photo above.
Thank you for the tips. I now have a yellow filter attached to my SLR and I am slowly filling up a film with shots and then I will see.
Thanks Helen.
The original colour version had cloud detail in the sky which I lost in editing the image in post. Not very clever on my part, but I did recover that detail before I entered the print version into competition. In any case, the judge thought the strip of sky drew the eye away from the main image. Good to know you feel differently.
The original colour version had cloud detail in the sky which I lost in editing the image in post. Not very clever on my part, but I did recover that detail before I entered the print version into competition. In any case, the judge thought the strip of sky drew the eye away from the main image. Good to know you feel differently.
Hmmm - in how many pictures do you see the source of light?
Never counted. It's just in this case I think the image needs it. I don't mind if no one else agrees, its only my opinion and preference. As we have said on many occasions in the forum, it would be really boring if we all thought the same.
Fully agree
