 Amanda L. Neilson |
Please Critcique !!!!
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Amanda L. Neilson |
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Andrew Laverghetta |
Hi! I like the idea a lot! Some ways to make them more interesting might be to incorporate more background or foregraound elements? Maybe you can include a flower in the forground that's out of focus or something since you're focused on the mirror? Maybe show a little more of the tree on the right since the foliage on the left seems so dominant. I'm not sure what level you shot this from but always try to get down to their level even if you're not shooting them directly. Hope this helps!!
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Andrew Laverghetta |
Oh! I like how the composition had the mirror turned and it's more to one side. Also, if you included more of the tree to the right, you'd probably have to flip the mirror and put the girl on the other side.
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Kay Beausoleil |
Amanda, you have a wonderful concept here. I think the foreground and background are fine -- you have enough detail in them to be interesting. If this were my idea and I could do it over, I'd include the girl's feet, or if they're hidden in the grass, I'd include space where the feet would be. Not that they're fascinating in themselves, but without feet, the image looks incomplete somehow. And I'd pop the colours out in PS or whatever -- they look a tad flat. Your sweet, lyrical image is worth the extra work!
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Andrew Laverghetta |
Looking at it further, I'm thinking that it doesn't look as sharp. It's probably just the way it was uploaded and I'm sure the original looks sharper. The flowers, wood under the flowers, and some of the grass just don't seem as sharp. How do you scale down your photos to upload them?
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John Rhodes |
Amanda, I'm going to offer a different bit of criticism on a wonderful shot. I would have wanted to see the front of the little girl--her face, not looking in the mirror, but a profile as she looked at the garden. You may be able to reproduce the shot, and it would be worth the extra effort as Kay said. Great idea! John
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Melissa L. Zavadil |
I think this is an awesome idea and concept. I think the mirror is very interesting and I like the way the childs back is turned away. I am just guessing here but I think that you had it on manual focus and the camera focused on the sharp lines of the folage. (I could be wrong) I would take it off of manual focus and focus on the image of the child. I might also be inclined to put an outfit on the child that was not as conflicting with the folage. Like a plain white outfit that way the color that you get is from the folage in the portrait. Just a thought..... But this is really a neat idea with soo much potential!
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Melissa L. Zavadil |
Oh, and I might be inclined to either clone out, or reposition the photo so the bird bath and lantern in the right side of the photograph are not a distraction.
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Samuel Smith |
i agree with melissa on the bird bath and lamp.maybe just one or the other. it has that alice in the looking glass feel as if she had walked in to the mirror and was fading away. pretty neat,sam
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Amanda L. Neilson |
Thanks everyone for the ideas. Melissa you are right, I did have the camera on Manual Focus because I don't really know enough about it to use it otherwise. I will have to do some expirementing. I was intending on having her look in the mirror and have a few shots of that but this one where she walked away to look at the flowers behind her I just snapped anyway. When I saw it I just liked it the best. Thanks again to all of you for your feedback. I don't have P S but I will have to invest in it soon. Amanda
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David A. Bliss |
I agree with most of what was said above, though I would like to add a couple of items. First, I really like the concept of the shot, it does make you stop for a second to figure it out. I hope you have the ability to recreate this shot, because I think instead of cloning out the birdbath and lantern, you should move the mirror over a bit and just cover them up. That would also put the reflection closer to the right third, instead of closer to center, which would give it a very nice balance, especially with the wood retaining wall running along the bottom third. You'd probably want to make sure that all of the mirror is in the shot, though, so don't frame it to where some of the mirrow is out of frame. I think also that you should shoot this with a smaller aperture (more depth of field) which will keep everything more in focus. Personally, I like that the little girl is facing away. It gives it a different feeling than if she was facing the mirror.
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