Going out on a limb here with bringing my photos here but I feel like I need the critique, I haven't been shooting long but feel like some of my images have promise. Been watching a lot of the critiques posted up on youtube, and find that my style (if I could say I have one definitive style yet or if its worth a damn) is so dramatically different than what I am seeing with the blending of shots and stars and sunset and foreground light, it makes me think I am crazy. Anyway any critiques would be great!
Quick note - i mean crazy as in I don't know what im doing and need to stop - not that mine are better!
My opinion:
First one needs at least to have a levelled horizon. Landscape looks silly when water runs out on one side. Lighting is somewhat dull in it.
The second one I think i s a good idea. Something to draw the eye in and something that is a interesting composition line. The clouds are interesting and bring content as well does the nice dim light. I like it and I think it stands out in your collection both here in this post and in your collection at your profile.
The third one is okay, it has interesting elements, it though has nothing that really catches the eye, it has no lines that draws you into the shot, that gives any depth. All lines I can see here go sideways.
Fourth: Not sure at all what you want us to see here. You could say it is a line there, with the rocks upwards...
Finding your own style - The importance is to do something that makes your shots stay out and that they appeal to a large enough group so that you can sell enough to make some sort of living from it. It is said somewhere that art is loved by 1/3, hated by 1/3 and 1/3 doesn't understand it. Some people by art because they love it, others because they hate it.
However a photograph that is good makes people think, it makes them look at it and look again and again. And they have some sort of thought seeing it. Of course 5 billion people thing different, but some clues are the same, as with your second shot here, it has something that lets the eyes travel and stay with the essence of the shot. Something that you as an artist wants to tell and show.
Gah big mistake on my part on the first one, uploaded the wrong version. The second one im interested in how much people like it, I think its almost there but the dim lighting is just too dim to be impressive. Third, I like the most because of its strong horizontal character its more (for me) about the bands of color than being drawn to a focal point. Fourth, the rocks do form a line and there is a little man at the top looking back at us (candid shot) but I liked how we realized no, we are not at the top yet.
Thanks so much for the feedback, I don't know if my goal is to make photography my profession - but I do strive to be better and have appealing images that people enjoy. Thanks again, and coming from design school (landscape architecture) I hope you don't take my follow up as critiquing the critique, I think all of your points are valid and are helpful!
I do not take it as any critique :) I am not particular easy to offend.
It is interesting to get the artists approach on his work. When a photograph is taken with a purpose it becomes something more, then it is an artistic expression. When it is just a picture taken without thought it is a snapshot
beautiful images,How did you take it?