Hi, I took this a few weeks early for the challenge. I tried to redo it but it didn't work out, I was just wondering how people might have voted on it, and any advice/critique on the photo will be taken and appreciated. Link Below
I'll second the left of frame comment, or looking left from the right of frame. Seems a bit unbalanced to have him looking towards the near side of the frame.
Not sure on the B&W I'd have to see that one to comment, but definately in the 7-8 area for me if he wasn't looking the 'wrong' way, the photo looks like it's going to tip over :-).
Here's the one I didn't enter, so to speak, I decided it was a bit of a loose link to waiting, and seeing as a lot of shots seem to be good by get low voted for loose links to the challenge I decided on something even more vague in the end... But you get that..
Here's the one I didn't enter, so to speak, I decided it was a bit of a loose link to waiting, and seeing as a lot of shots seem to be good by get low voted for loose links to the challenge I decided on something even more vague in the end... But you get that..
I actually thought the waiting part was pretty obvious (even if it wasn't in the title---the legs and feet indicate that there are people at the curb and they could just be waiting to cross the street. It's a cool shot and if you entered it shown bigger than it is here I probably would have given it at least a 6.
Angela, I think I would have scored it a touch lower: subject looking out of frame to the near side is tricky to make work - it pushes the viewer's eye out of tthe image, rather than into it: this is emphasised in a composition that doesn't include much other subject mattter. I'm not convinced by the background, and the relative placement of the kid - the far kerb-side distracts I think, though it's also useful and so a dilemma for you. Colouration though, to my eye, is a problem - really rather washed out looking: obviously you had to expose up a touch with those black clothes, but I'd have tried to use levels or something (given the basic rules) to bring either more life or simply less brightness from the pavement and the grass. perhaps even to go as far as B/W, although you'd probably be in dangeer of losing too much of the detail around the child.
Fundamentally, what it lacks to me is any kind of story - imagine that shot with a trick thundering past, or even a car! - or at least something in frame to balance and give drama to the composition. I think I'd perhaps have scored you a 5, maybe.
Personally I like the composition. The fact the child is looking out of the frame is why I get the feeling of waiting. Had the child been on the LHS looking into the frame I don't think the image would have worked nearly as well.
