Babies are always so beautiful and amazing, so right off the bat you have a winner. The light is nice and your pov was well chosen. It is sharp and well exposed. I find the red cloth botton left distracting as I do the kink in the baby's arm hole. I would also suggest cropping out the pink thing far right, or perhaps cloning over it. Lovely.
Hi Ian,
thanks for the input. It is very appreciated. My expertise is in teaching and learning and I give a workshop on effective feedback using the acronym STAR (specific timely actionable respectful). You're feedback always meets those criteria. I've read a lot of posts on fstoppers lately and noticed that you invest a lot of time and energy in trying to help us all get better. Thanks for that.
cheers,
Tris
It is often quite time consuming to write a meaningful and complete critique, with alternative suggestions to be more helpful than just saying something does not work, or whatever. We are all under time pressures and so it is often easy to just provide a few words of encouragement or an equally few words to point out some aspect of a photo that might have been better. These comments are sometimes very helpful but often they just say yes great or point out a problem. For people who are very inexperienced more depth is helpful. Not just to help, should they ever re-shoot the same image but so they start the process of thinking about the whole range of potential issues, before taking the next shot in a similar situation. Ultimately, activating and training the thinking process is changing a novice to an acomplished photographer who will avoid the pitfalls he might otherwise have made and so will do better and get more satisfaction sooner from their work.
I sometimes feel like a fraud, when I provide feed-back, as some of the work we see here is very very good and my own recent work as in my FS portfolio is seemingly not well regarded. But of course, my choice of subject matter recently, which has so much resonance for me and the people of the community where I live, will mean nothing to people from other places or with a preference for attractive subjects rather than my more evocative portraits of regional decline and decay. Never going to "sell" like a lovely lady or the Rocky Mountains under virgin snow.
Thank you for the feed-back. Your comments are much appreciated.
Babies are always so beautiful and amazing, so right off the bat you have a winner. The light is nice and your pov was well chosen. It is sharp and well exposed. I find the red cloth botton left distracting as I do the kink in the baby's arm hole. I would also suggest cropping out the pink thing far right, or perhaps cloning over it. Lovely.
Hi Ian,
thanks for the input. It is very appreciated. My expertise is in teaching and learning and I give a workshop on effective feedback using the acronym STAR (specific timely actionable respectful). You're feedback always meets those criteria. I've read a lot of posts on fstoppers lately and noticed that you invest a lot of time and energy in trying to help us all get better. Thanks for that.
cheers,
Tris
It is often quite time consuming to write a meaningful and complete critique, with alternative suggestions to be more helpful than just saying something does not work, or whatever. We are all under time pressures and so it is often easy to just provide a few words of encouragement or an equally few words to point out some aspect of a photo that might have been better. These comments are sometimes very helpful but often they just say yes great or point out a problem. For people who are very inexperienced more depth is helpful. Not just to help, should they ever re-shoot the same image but so they start the process of thinking about the whole range of potential issues, before taking the next shot in a similar situation. Ultimately, activating and training the thinking process is changing a novice to an acomplished photographer who will avoid the pitfalls he might otherwise have made and so will do better and get more satisfaction sooner from their work.
I sometimes feel like a fraud, when I provide feed-back, as some of the work we see here is very very good and my own recent work as in my FS portfolio is seemingly not well regarded. But of course, my choice of subject matter recently, which has so much resonance for me and the people of the community where I live, will mean nothing to people from other places or with a preference for attractive subjects rather than my more evocative portraits of regional decline and decay. Never going to "sell" like a lovely lady or the Rocky Mountains under virgin snow.
Thank you for the feed-back. Your comments are much appreciated.