This is a photo I took at St. Bonaventure cemetery in Savannah, GA. There is something about this statue that is so fascinating to me. I am not sure if it is the pose or the way that, if you saw it at night in the moonlight, you might mistake her for a mourner. I just think it is amazing in its details. I played with the settings on this photo a bit.
There is something truly beautiful about this place. It is not like any cemetery I have ever been to before. The peaceful feeling there is almost unreal. When you step into the old part of the cemetery you feel a change in the air almost like you are no longer in the present. It is a very moving experience to walk among the monuments and to read the stones. You feel almost out of place if you speak above a whisper. It is truly worth the visit if you are ever in the area.
This image allows to make few points how the similar composition could be improved.
Always look not only on the foreground, but also on the background. Here, there are several major problems: - background is much more overlit and thus draws most of attention. - moderate colours of the foreground are beaten by unnecessary bright green of the background. - I do not like the sun on statue's leg, again, it creates overlit spot that look like as a technical flaw and can possibly mess up the eye.
The only good thing that might be applied to this image is the extraction of the statue (e.g. with magnetic lasso) and putting it against pale, non-dominating background.
I promised this critique a long time ago, but have just got to it now, sorry about that
Vision: The photo is clear in what it is trying to portray to your viewer. It makes me think of a deeper meaning than you might have possibly intended.. looking deep into ourselves, at what we are sitting motionless waiting for.. a new job? a new love?
Originality: Its really hard to be original with statues.. being works of art themselves, they are subject to numerous photos, and have been for a very long time.
Technique: Most of the lines are straight, and the composition is technically quite good, but I am a firm believer that when making a frame of something that may have been shot before, is to break outside the box, and attempt something no one else might have tried before.. Its hard to look at the shot and wonder what you could have done to make it 'better' at the time you took it.. the only thing I can suggest, would have been shooting it under flatter lighting conditions, as the sun blows out the background pretty harshly.
Impact: Its a shot that makes me think, but not a shot that draws and holds me in.
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Critiques
Always look not only on the foreground, but also on the background. Here, there are several major problems:
- background is much more overlit and thus draws most of attention.
- moderate colours of the foreground are beaten by unnecessary bright green of the background.
- I do not like the sun on statue's leg, again, it creates overlit spot that look like as a technical flaw and can possibly mess up the eye.
The only good thing that might be applied to this image is the extraction of the statue (e.g. with magnetic lasso) and putting it against pale, non-dominating background.
Vision: The photo is clear in what it is trying to portray to your viewer. It makes me think of a deeper meaning than you might have possibly intended.. looking deep into ourselves, at what we are sitting motionless waiting for.. a new job? a new love?
Originality: Its really hard to be original with statues.. being works of art themselves, they are subject to numerous photos, and have been for a very long time.
Technique: Most of the lines are straight, and the composition is technically quite good, but I am a firm believer that when making a frame of something that may have been shot before, is to break outside the box, and attempt something no one else might have tried before.. Its hard to look at the shot and wonder what you could have done to make it 'better' at the time you took it.. the only thing I can suggest, would have been shooting it under flatter lighting conditions, as the sun blows out the background pretty harshly.
Impact: Its a shot that makes me think, but not a shot that draws and holds me in.
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