too busy...the bride just gels in with the rest of the bright lights on the other photos. if you can darken the sorrounding and the background...this one would rule.
Sunny Sra wrote:
too busy...the bride just gels in with the rest of the bright lights on the other photos. if you can darken the sorrounding and the background...this one would rule.
Valerie, after your post in the Fer Juaristi topic I have little respect for your critiques. Being critical is one thing, but the wording of this one is just down right rude. I think Robin deserves a little more respect here when asking for insight.
ValerieUSA wrote:
If you were just about any other place in the room but there it would have been a much better photo. What possessed you to take the shot from there?
Cause I don't have the eye apparently.
The wedding was at an event center. We were walking through the big complex to go to the park behind it instead of walking outside around it in a 100 degree weather. Just happened to walk through an art exhibition and thought the light and walls were interesting. I was hoping for more plain white walls.
You were close on this one. I think if you were to find the angle that hid the lamp-looking sculpture behind the middle panel it would have been a lot cleaner. And maybe tried shooting from a lower perspective instead of higher. Easy to say after the fact, haha. I think it's still a pretty cool photo.
Also, you may have wanted to turn the body away from the light source, then have her turn her face toward it. As it is now, there's shadows all over her face and you're just not drawn to it.
I like the second version better, but since we in this country are left to right readers, the picture on the left is what grabs my attention first, and what fights for my attention as I try to look through the rest of the shot. Maybe if the two pictures on the left were darkened a bit, there would be less fighting for my attention. Think spotlight just on the bride.... just a thought.
I like the second version much better - it leads my eye from left to right much more easily. I don't mind that the bride isn't the first thing I look at in this shot.
I like the image, especially the ratio. However, I would get rid of the door on the left side. It's an empty space. Cropping it out however will change the ratio, and potentially the impact of original ratio.
I think I'd be inclined to clone out the two bright spotlights and burn the doorway area on the right (along with the light spill on the floor) until it was completely invisible. I'd also crop that light sliver of wall on the far left.
I think I'd be inclined to clone out the two bright spotlights and burn the doorway area on the right (along with the light spill on the floor) until it was completely invisible. I'd also crop that light sliver of wall on the far left.
...and remove the distracting vertical frame post she appears to be leaning her head against.
