This is such a natural shot of such a simple and everyday event and done without any obvious professional lighting etc., that it is tempting to think of it as a "snapshot". That may be true, or it may not be true. However, what matters is that the girl looks great and the moment was captured, perfectly. The parasol and ribbon match each other and her outfit works. The light works. The image is sharply focussed on her lovely eyes, which have not been photoshopped as far as I can tell, which is a good thing. There is a nice use of shallow depth of field, significantly, but not excessively, softening the potentially distracting framework of the parasol.
I imagine all who love her will love this image. So it is a pro standard job, in everyway that matters. I do wonder if the skin tone is just a tad too pale, but maybe not, I don't know the girl. Keep it up, a good photograph, not a snap-shot, IMO.
Henri Cartier-Bresson had the wonderful talent of capturing the exact right moment, making very natural and seemingly easy to shoot images of fleeting moments in people's lives. To the unthinking they may aslo have been considered snaps. But they were not easy to make and to anyone with a soul they were photography of the highest standard, art that has passed the test of time. We know they were not easy as noone has ever done the same kind of work better in the many decades since he was working.
Thank you Ian, Really Appreciate your time for such a explained critique, really helped me to get a deep insight of this photograph beyond my experience, i will push beyond the limits to attain better photographs...
I love this image it is radiating joy and happiness and the composition is just perfect. The only thing that I would change is to boost the colors/contrasts just a little bit they seem a little too weak and bland!
Thanks a lot for your comment, i will enhance the colors and contrast a bit more, i have a really bad lcd monitor, i guess my color calibrations are really off which in return give me a bad retouch results, but i will try my best to improve and make my future photographs better.
Until you address the quality of your computer screen/calibration you will always be working with a visual handicap. If your calibration is not right you have no idea at all what you are doing. All your lovely cameras, lenses and other sexy kit will be producing totally random accidents of colour, tone and brightness. Screens and more importantly calibration are not sexy but they are critical, critical, critical.
A good calibration set is not even very expensive, although I know screens can be a bit costly. If funds are a bit tight calibrate the screen you have then when you can afford to upgrade the screen, which is always secondary to calibration and may not even need doing after you calibrate.
Thank you Ian, I'm just a kid hanging around its just been an year since i started gathering my gears, and a better screen is also in my list, Are you able to help me out with a good model for upgrade ?
I would get a calibration system first. It will make a bigger difference than upgrading your screen will, unless your screen is truly awful. I am not one who follows kit so much, so I claim no particular expertise but when you do upgrade, look at Eizo but there are others. I seem to recall Eizo had slightly better spec but really the differences are not enormous. Calibration, a low cost major upgrade, will make a big diffeernce even with a modest screen and that is the point. I have not upgraded my Apple cinema display, which is not a good screen but I do calibrate before every edit or every month or so. The advantages are enormous, in terms of picture quality and consistancy of quality.
This is such a natural shot of such a simple and everyday event and done without any obvious professional lighting etc., that it is tempting to think of it as a "snapshot". That may be true, or it may not be true. However, what matters is that the girl looks great and the moment was captured, perfectly. The parasol and ribbon match each other and her outfit works. The light works. The image is sharply focussed on her lovely eyes, which have not been photoshopped as far as I can tell, which is a good thing. There is a nice use of shallow depth of field, significantly, but not excessively, softening the potentially distracting framework of the parasol.
I imagine all who love her will love this image. So it is a pro standard job, in everyway that matters. I do wonder if the skin tone is just a tad too pale, but maybe not, I don't know the girl. Keep it up, a good photograph, not a snap-shot, IMO.
Henri Cartier-Bresson had the wonderful talent of capturing the exact right moment, making very natural and seemingly easy to shoot images of fleeting moments in people's lives. To the unthinking they may aslo have been considered snaps. But they were not easy to make and to anyone with a soul they were photography of the highest standard, art that has passed the test of time. We know they were not easy as noone has ever done the same kind of work better in the many decades since he was working.
Thank you Ian, Really Appreciate your time for such a explained critique, really helped me to get a deep insight of this photograph beyond my experience, i will push beyond the limits to attain better photographs...
I love this image it is radiating joy and happiness and the composition is just perfect. The only thing that I would change is to boost the colors/contrasts just a little bit they seem a little too weak and bland!
Thanks a lot for your comment, i will enhance the colors and contrast a bit more, i have a really bad lcd monitor, i guess my color calibrations are really off which in return give me a bad retouch results, but i will try my best to improve and make my future photographs better.
Until you address the quality of your computer screen/calibration you will always be working with a visual handicap. If your calibration is not right you have no idea at all what you are doing. All your lovely cameras, lenses and other sexy kit will be producing totally random accidents of colour, tone and brightness. Screens and more importantly calibration are not sexy but they are critical, critical, critical.
A good calibration set is not even very expensive, although I know screens can be a bit costly. If funds are a bit tight calibrate the screen you have then when you can afford to upgrade the screen, which is always secondary to calibration and may not even need doing after you calibrate.
Thank you Ian, I'm just a kid hanging around its just been an year since i started gathering my gears, and a better screen is also in my list, Are you able to help me out with a good model for upgrade ?
I would get a calibration system first. It will make a bigger difference than upgrading your screen will, unless your screen is truly awful. I am not one who follows kit so much, so I claim no particular expertise but when you do upgrade, look at Eizo but there are others. I seem to recall Eizo had slightly better spec but really the differences are not enormous. Calibration, a low cost major upgrade, will make a big diffeernce even with a modest screen and that is the point. I have not upgraded my Apple cinema display, which is not a good screen but I do calibrate before every edit or every month or so. The advantages are enormous, in terms of picture quality and consistancy of quality.