I suck at critiquing art, but I'm determined to critique new things--I've been doing a lot of poetry lately--so here I am. If I'm not helpful, well you can just suck it up.
1. I like this. Could just be me, but I think it would be better if you cropped off the top of the car and below. That part seems to just blah it out. Though, I'm no good at this. I'd get a second opinion.
2. This one's okay. I feel that the tan-ness (I know it's not a real word. But, hey, who are you to judge?) of the house takes away from the vibrant green of the lawn, which is the main thing I like about this one. I think that the sidewalk is like a cat walk to the house, and so draws the attention from the thing I like most about this. I don't know, it's just not working for me.
3. I think this would be better if you have the top have of the tree. The grass and the trunk are kind of color-drained, and the cars are in the shadows. The color of the leaves would have caught the eye of this more. When I first saw this I wasn't sure where to look at, where to focus on.
4. This one is nice, but I think we see too many bushes. All of the green and leafyness of them lessens the effect of the main--middle--tree against the tan brick.
5. This one's cool. Can't really find much wrong with it. I like the angle and the fact that the main building is in the shadows.
6. I really like this one. The color of the first house really works well with the rest of it, not quite eye catching, but it harmonizes--can a house harmonize?--and unifies the sidewalk with the rest of the houses.
Again, sorry if this isn't helpful. I did my best and if that's not good enough, well you're just a tad too critical of my critiques for my liking.
loveness, ultraviolet <3
"Blah blah blah. You feel trapped in your life. Here is what I am hearing: happiness isn't worth any inconvenience."
So I'm going to critique your style rather than individual pieces.. I hope you don't mind.
So first of all- I do like some of these angles, but I think that you could try some new things.. one thing in photography that you're also trying to do is make people see things in a different perspective.. you want to share with the world how YOU see things. Try getting up closer.. getting further away. Some of these are straight on, kind of plain. Try to change it up.
Another thing- I think that these could be edited a bit more. Personally, I just use Windows Live Gallery.. free, nothing special. No photoshop. I've never taken a class on anything, but it still works for me. You can play with the exposition and contrast, the colors, straightening.. all that stuff. Pretty nice, and it adds a lot to photography.
However, these were still nice.. there were some interesting angles in this. The lighting is nice, and I like the use of lines. Nice job. c:
Hiya! I'm usually very wary of reviewing you green guys's pieces ( :p ) but -- hey! -- I guess I'll give it a go.
The biggest thing I have learned about photography is that you can't simply take a picture of something as everyone sees it. Okay, it's a tree. Woohoo. Yes, it's a pretty tree, but it's a tree nonetheless, and most (if not all) humans have seen them. So, what the photographer has to do is look at the tree differently than most people do. Maybe you could perch yourself down at the tree trunk and take a photo of the canopy from below in such a way that the bark looks like the ground. Most people don't look at trees that way. It's okay for photographers to look weird, contorting their bodies in all different ways so as to get a great shot.
If the subject of the photo is really something spectacular, then you probably won't need that little burst of creativity. Here's a project for you. (I actually got it from the basis of a group on Flickr.) Try taking photos of things from under two feet above the ground. It's really a fun photography project, and it will get you some great shots.
