Critique

  

• Part 1:
• Composition: I like how I used the park's ashtray as a way to frame the parks serene beauty. The background is distinguishable but clearly not in focus. I used natural lighting with a high contgast element. Visually there is balance between the "view" and the "structure". The emphasis is on the sharpest part of the image, the ash-tray.
• Concept: My concept was to show the juxtaposition between the beauty of a fountain and the utilitarianism of the ashtray. Framing a park's fountain through the park's ashtray. A place so beautiful has ashtrays?
• Motivation: I wanted to show bad/ugly/deadly/etc. exists everywhere.
• Method: I shoot images that capture my attention. As I was in the plaza I saw these ashtrays that dotted the premise. A nice and quiet place to smoke and enjoy the beauty, as you die. I like that struggle of dichotomy of beauty and what's thought to be bad etiquette. I do not brainstorm, I do not plan, I do not test. I go, I go, I go.
• Context: I wanted to express to the viewer that dichotomy and beauty and ugly are all in everywhere.
• Part 2
• Interpretation: That I'm trying to make smoking look beautiful by placing the subject matter against the park. I'm not satisfied with our critiques. 
• Evaluation: The framing is done well. The focus and the contrast placed upon the cigarette buts is also well done. If the park content was different and the ash tray stayed the same that would be the best.
• Extension: I would use this piece as a place to jump from, to focus on areas of high contrast beauty. Cigarettes in a Park. Flowers at Chernobyl. etc.

 

• Part 1
• Composition:  I framed the subject center front.  With the perspective of an on-looker and landscape/portraiture. The contrast also suggests volume.  The lighting is natural and through the clouds and trees.
• Concept: I wanted to express serenity and relaxation through the subjects body language of grasping the plant. The bench, the wild life, the pose, and the lighting all allude to a mid day bench relaxation.
• Method: I crept in the bushes and had the subject relax as if I was not even there. I then began to  capture images as she relaxed, very candid, very real. I placed the subject behind objects in the middle ground to give depth and to take away from the identifiable shape of body posture.
• Motivation: My intention was to express through a photograph the emotional ambiance of that setting.
• Context: There is no issue. There is no worry, no war, no crime, no rain, no pain, just nature, plants, humans alike.
• Part 2
• Interpretation: The image concept is blatant. The subject is on a bench relaxing, enjoying nature.
• Evaluation: I like the concept of this photo, I don't believe however that technical skill is a strong as the concept in this photograph. Another angle, or different lighting would be help push this photograph further. The framing and perspective I like though.
• Extension: A series of Nature photos, or a series of portraiture of subject in places that bring them relaxation. etc.

 

•  Part 1
•  Composition: Ketchup. Mustard. Surprise. The overcast lighting, the black framing and the composition and perspective all help make this even better.
• Concept: I wanted to make it seem like the two bottles were involved in an explicit encounter that were interrupted, almost like a rendezvous.
• Motivation: My goal was to make voyeur a whole new level through watching and wanting and lusting after these condiment bottles.
• Method: Aperture priority mode. No lighting except the microwaves own lighting. 
• Context: There are many undertones, wanting something. Spying on something not even worth the time. etc.
• Part 2
• Interpretation: that the two bottle were caught in an explicit act. The door ajar and the lighting of shadows helps to express this poin. The balance and asymmetry also help to provide the idea.
• Evaluation: The contrast and the lighting as well as the framing is working very well in this photograph. But above all, I feel like the perspective is the strongest strength. Bottle placement, focus and actual bottle subjects could have been manipulated in another way.
• Extension: A series of played-out double entandres (sp)