My first try on fireworks with no tripod. Hope you like it! Sorry, can't think of any magazine title for this. Just saw my daughter's Highlights for Children subscription and just added the 4th of July Issue.
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I think I've done a critique on one of your photos before. I still enjoy seeing your work. For the current photo, I'm very impressed...especially since you didn't use a tripod for this.
Composition: It really is a pretty photo. Although it would have been nice to see a more colorful firework, I still think that the colors are nice. I also like the red streaks that turned out looking like curled ribbon confetti. They showed up nicely. The photo is well framed. The huge firework above the ferris wheel located in the bottom corner of the photo works well.
Technical: Well done for a night time firework shot. I'm still quite impressed of the quality you did get given that it was taken without a tripod. It really would have been better, though, with one. You can tell there was shakiness by looking at the ferris wheel. It really isn't as sharp as it could have been. The firework burst does look good.
Challenge: This is probably the area that hurt you in the scoring, especially with those that take the name of the challenge seriously. Highlights has never used photographic images for their covers. Almost any other magazine would have been fitting for this photo.
Overall: The photo itself is nice...probably deserving a higher score than what you got. I really do belive that the choice of magazine is what hurt you most of all. Perhaps just a little better clarity would have put you closer to the 6 point range if not higher. I wasn't able to vote on this challenge, but if I had, I would have scored it a 6.
Good luck to you and hope this critique has helped you some.
Great photo! My only problem is, being familiar with this magazine, they don't have photographic covers. It's been a drawing every time I've seen it, and I just been to their website and found the same to be true.
While I've never seen anything quite like this on HiglLights, in a special edition perhaps I can imagine it. The photo is fairly well suited towards the topic, although a bit shy on cover-copy space, though I think that's less of an issue for Highlights. I wish given the colourful Ferris Wheel you could have gotten a more colourful firework, but it's still nice.
Nice, though isn't Highlights usually a drawn cover? I don't think it usually has photos on it does it? I like this photo, could definitely see it on the front of a cover. i don't like the border though, I don't think it helps, and I'm not sure many magazines have a border. Nice night photo though... I think it's definitely well done.
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