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How to critique your photos
The document discusses a structured approach to critiquing photography based on emotional, artistic, and technical values. It emphasizes the importance of self-critiquing, providing thoughtful and constructive feedback, and maintaining a positive demeanor while critiquing others’ work. The text also highlights the significance of objective evaluation for professional photographers and offers practical examples for critiquing photographs.
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How to critique your photos
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- 2. Critique using 3values +Emotional +Artistic +Technical
- 3. Emotional This is whenwe view an image for the first time and express our reaction.
- 4. Note your impression and explainWHY Emotional
- 5. If I likeit, why? If not, why not?
- 6. Does it evoke: -an emotion - a mood - tell a story - is it nostalgic
- 7. How do you feelwhen you look at this photo?
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- 9. What is the moodof the photo?
- 10. What did you seethat made you click the shutter?
- 11. Things with emotional impact +babies +puppies +graveyards +warphotos +old family photos
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- 13. Is the composition pleasing to theeye? Artistic
- 14. Is the subject placement pleasingto the eye? Artistic
- 15. Is the subject ofinterest obvious? Artistic
- 16. Is there anything inthe image that does not add to its impact? Artistic
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- 19. Are lines aligned ornot aligned creatively, or are they mere distractions? Artistic
- 20. Things with artistic impacthave +good composition +interesting use of light +good use of colour +interesting perspective +compelling subject
- 21. Technical Is the photoin focus or meant to be blurry?
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- 24. Is depth offield used well? Technical
- 25. Is there too muchlens distortion? Technical
- 26. Is Photoshop overly used? Technical
- 27. Technical problems +distract us +lessenthe impact +people easily dismiss us +not tolerated in commercial work
- 28. A worthy critique remainsfriendly, thoughtful, positive, considerate, and always honest.
- 29. Practice Time Critique thefollowing photos for practice. Then critique some of your own using emotional, artistic and technical values.
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- 31. Example ✦ I likethe old brick on this building. It’s nostalgic. ✦ The warm colour and the lighting of the shot is nice too. It looks like early morning or late day light. ✦ The office tower in the bottom right corner is distracting and I think it should be removed
- 32. Example ✦ The leadinglines add nice visual interest. ✦ I would have tried shooting it from a slightly more frontal view, but still keep the leading lines. ✦ The photo is cropped too tightly at the top causing a tangent point at the top of the frame.
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- 34. Example ✦ The photoshows life coming out of what looks like drought ✦ The cracks and grass shoots have a lot of repetition ✦ This would be a good illustration for a story on global warming or farmland drought
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- 36. Example ✦ The photois shot on an overcast day and resulted in very low contrast lighting. ✦ The s-curve in the middle draws us in and up into the subtle detail of this photo. ✦ There isn’t a lot of colour ✦ Despite all this I find it interesting to look at, and I’d like to see it big.
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- 38. Example ✦ Seeing theTwin Towers in NYC has a lot of emotional impact on me. ✦ The horizon is crooked in this shot and there is a railing from the bridge that’s a bit distracting. ✦ Using black and white gives it a nostalgic and timeless quality.
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- 40. Example ✦ This photois a bit busy and I’m having a hard time trying to figure out what the main subject is. ✦ The shadows cause strong angles. ✦ The black and white adds some extra grittiness to the shot.
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- 61. Emotional This is whenwe view an image for the first time and express our reaction. Note your impression and explain WHY
- 62. Artistic Is the conceptunique, creative? Is the composition and subject placement pleasing to the eye? Is the subject of interest obvious?
- 63. Artistic Is there anythingin the image that does not add to its impact? Does the perspective work? Are lines aligned/not aligned creatively or are they mere distractions?
- 64. Technical Is the photoin focus or meant to be blurry? Does the overall exposure work? Is Photoshop overly used?
- 65. A worthy critiqueremains friendly, thoughtful, positive, considerate, and always honest.
- 66. When critiquing: Offer somedepth into the why, along with added suggestions or recommendations.
- 67. Valuable critiquing utilizes properetiquette for the purpose of enhancing and expanding a photographer’s skill from an objective point of view.
- 68. How did thatgo? ✦ Self-critiquing is an important step in your visual literacy. ✦ Despite how it sounds, critiquing builds confidence. ✦ If you’ve got confidence in your work it will be easier to sell it, and easier to talk about it with others.
- 69. How did thatgo? ✦ When working with clients it’s even more important to be able to look at your work objectively, making sure that your photos meet the highest standards, especially the artistic and the technical. ✦ Clients hire you to give them something more than what they can do themselves. ✦ Give them your best!
- 70. How did thatgo? ✦ If you are still having trouble seeing your photos objectively, I can help. ✦ I will critique your photos using the same values outlined in this presentation. ✦ I’m currently offering photo critiques which provide you with an audio visual critique of a group of your images ✦ The critique is delivered via video For more information click here
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