Critiques

Kiana:  The composition on your landscape photo well thought out. The glowing of the lights coming from the buildings is very pleasing to the eye and it gives the entire photo a nice feel. You may have adjusted the levels a tiny bit too much because the sky looks just slightly too bright near the middle of the frame. You also did a good job using the rule of thirds when taking the photo, so it's easy to tell what part of the photo is the subject. Overall a great photo.


Ramsey:  The red and blue colors of your macro photo complement each other in a way that makes it very nice to looks at. There is also a nice c-composition that makes it easy for the eye to move around the entire photo. It seems like the photo was a little blurry so maybe next time you could sharpen the image a little more. Regardless, it's a nice photo because you're focal point is very easily defined and my eye was drawn to it very quickly.


Sean:  For your portrait photo, your subject was very easy to identify. The placement of the subject in the frame also made it easy for the eye to move around the entire photo. Next time you may want to 
either crop out some of the background, or move your subject somewhere with a less noisy background. The cars in the back started to draw my eye away from the subject. Otherwise the picture had pretty good composition and showed good care in cropping.

Classic Themes of Photography

Landscape

Portrait

Action

Macro

Still Life

20 Shoot Tips

1. Move in close

2. Use care in cropping

3. Close up foreground objects

4. C-Composition 

5. Rule of thirds

6. Rule of thirds-2

7. Find an interesting angle

8. Frame within a frame

9. Creating active space

10. Avoid competing lines

11. Use diagonal lines

12. Use depth of field

13. Define your focal point

14. Focus on the details

15. Use back lighting

16. Use defused light

17. Get up, early stay out late

18. Embrace the grey day

19. Reflect on things

20. Break all the rules