Photo Critique Club

[All4Eggz]

Yes. All of these. In the end, I decided I would live with the focus issue (it prints at 24x36 and looks great so it's close enough, I had a poster made for my buddy who owned this car), and to deal with the lighting, this is what I came up with.

Original:
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Adjusted:
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I brushed out the annoying lamp ion the back, pushed the contrast HARD to flatten the multiple light sources, then dropped a B/W layer over it and backed out the headlights and fog lights for the selective color look. Not gonna be everyone's cuppa, but it was perfect for this shot and the personality of the owner of the car.

Is it Perfect? No. Did it work out? Yup! You can still get a winner from a flawed image if the subject connects with people. So don't feel like every shot you take has to hit the cover of National Geographic.

Wow. It looks amazing!

 

[HappyClucker7]

First off, I love this. I would probably crop it in and eliminate a bunch of the bottom and left side to bring the horses up more into the shot. That's a preference thing though, from a technical perspective there's not really anything wrong here.

Thank you very much! I have thought about cropping it in a little. Maybe I'll play around with it later and see how it turns out.

Okay, I tried some cropping. What do you think of this?

 

[HappyClucker7]

Yes. All of these. In the end, I decided I would live with the focus issue (it prints at 24x36 and looks great so it's close enough, I had a poster made for my buddy who owned this car), and to deal with the lighting, this is what I came up with.

Original:
View attachment 3158726

Adjusted:
View attachment 3158720

I brushed out the annoying lamp ion the back, pushed the contrast HARD to flatten the multiple light sources, then dropped a B/W layer over it and backed out the headlights and fog lights for the selective color look. Not gonna be everyone's cuppa, but it was perfect for this shot and the personality of the owner of the car.

Is it Perfect? No. Did it work out? Yup! You can still get a winner from a flawed image if the subject connects with people. So don't feel like every shot you take has to hit the cover of National Geographic.

Wow, I like that!

 

[EEforMe]

this is one of my favorites i’ve ever taken. but there is something wrong with it that bugs me. can u guess what it is? also is there anything else i should fix?

 

[HappyClucker7]

this is one of my favorites i’ve ever taken. but there is something wrong with it that bugs me. it’s the piece of grass that’s in focus what else is wrong?View attachment 3158752

That blurry piece of grass right in front of the mushroom is really distracting.

 

[casportpony]

I found this rule of thirds cropping website:
https://www.iloveimg.com/crop-image

 

[azurbanclucker]

this is one of my favorites i’ve ever taken. but there is something wrong with it that bugs me. can u guess what it is? also is there anything else i should fix?View attachment 3158752

your mushroom is doing a bad job at hiding behind the blade of grass in front of it.

 

[EEforMe]

That blurry piece of grass right in front of the mushroom is really distracting.

oh ok

 

[EEforMe]

That blurry piece of grass right in front of the mushroom is really distracting.

your mushroom is doing a bad job at hiding behind the blade of grass in front of it.

better? sorry it’s a bad editing job but i don’t have photoshop so we’re just gonna have to live with it.

 

[azurbanclucker]

View attachment 3158777better? sorry it’s a bad editing job but i don’t have photoshop so we’re just gonna have to live with it.

Yes better.