Critique

After review of my photos, I have decided to reshoot Alston with brighter lighting and a sharper focus. Additionally, I want to have another photo of my sister outside with a different background where she is looking at the camera. Lastly, there are some minimal touch-ups that I need to add to two photos like the clone stamp, cropping, and perhaps a photoshop of a piece of hair.

Changes

Emily explained to me how my lighting could be adjusted to better portray the models profile. Annie agreed and said i could possibly retake some of my outside of studio photos, and focus mainly on my person.

Critique Blog

For the pictures of Sophie, the lighting was either really bright or really dim. For the comparison of outside of studio pictures and inside of studio pictures, they did not go together, theme and type of person wise. This time the inside of studio I will not rush it- but take my time and fix the lighting, best as possible. I was also very distracted by outside things, people, while taking my inside of studio pictures, which imposed on the picture quality with most pictures. My inside of studio pictures were very dark and gloomy and my outside of studio pictures were very bright and happy, and they contrasted dramatically. I loved having the snake in my inside of studio pictures because it gives balance between the person and the snake, it also takes the harshness out of the person and, like I said, makes it equal. Bringing the snake also was a big risk for me, which was scary for me since I am not a big fan with taking risks.

kinda clique but I'm restarting

So Im restarting buy entire project because i hate my current one, the pictures didn't come out the way i hoped they would. My new project is going to be around the color red, its one of my favorite colors, because its a statement color, everyone notices it because it stand out. So for my in studio shooting, i will be shooting annie in different outfits that involve the color red. She will be in front of  the backdrop white so the color red can be emphasized. Then for the outside studio pictures, i will be shooting sally on the beach wearing red. I will shoot outside just before sunset so the lighting isn't too harsh but enough light to truly see the pop of color red.

critique

For my portrait photos, I got Ella Smith and Ilana Simmons to critique. Ella said to crop the sidewalk under my sister in the photo with a green background and she is wearing a white leotard, while looking up. However, I disagree only because I like the extra concrete and you can see more detailing and beauty, which is my goal in this project. Ilana said to crop the picture of Mandy jumping and doing the scorpion pose and make her the center of the photo. Again, I disagree because I like the asymmetry and the colors and shadows in the leaves and woods around her.

I decided to retake pictures of evelyn because cooper and clayton helped me decide that the lighting isn't very strong. I plan to also retake the pictures of Serena to get a better reaction in her face because its kind of the side of he face. Cooper told me he thinks it would look good if i could create a darker shadow for the photos of clayton but he said he likes how the jersey is lit with the light.

Portrait Pictures Peer Review

I need to work on the focus on more of the eyes for my in studio pictures. Knox said that its almost like its really broad instead, focus more on his eyes, and capture his emotions in his eyes. i need to do the same exact thing with thomas, but maybe instead of the chill emotion, try to capture a sad and almost depressed emotion.
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For my Out of studio I had my sister do the moods: Sad, Happy, and Mad. I need to retake the sad ones and find a better place to do them because I feel as though the blue sky in the background contradicts the sad mood. For the happy and mad emotions I think that they are pretty good pictures but I'm going to still reshoot some nonetheless.

Photo project problems

  I had Thomas review my portrait project. He said that the concepts of my photos were good. However he told me that I made some technical errors with the lighting (most were a bit dark) and how I positioned the model (I had to crop some body parts out because they weren't in the background). I plan to reshoot a few of my in-studio photos and make the necessary changes to them.

Portrait pictures review

Harper was not content with two of my out of studio pictures. I will need to recreate these picture with better focus and think about the environments I shoot the models in. The picture with Harper needs to be in a better environment to portray the image of sadness and discouragement because the ice-cream is melting. To improve the picture of my sister i can clear the resolution up, and I show more of her face and the facial expressions to make her look sick.

Evelyn told me to make the picture easier to interpret. To solve this problem I can make the facial expressions even stronger to emphisize the struggle or the joy the models are having.  her review was on the same two pictures that Harper didn't like.

Portrait Picture Review

After going over my photos with 3 people, I decided I need to redo the pictures of Kieran and Brooke. They both need to be repositioned. For Brooke I need to put the focus on the whole chair and her. The lighting needs to stay the same. Also, I need to make sure that her hand in the photo even if she is jamming out and crop it right. For Kieran, I need to change the direction for shooting him. I want to get a side angle. Behind the soccer goal will look better and give a texture. Also, the lighting needs to be distributed throughout his face. I need to fix the shadow on his face. Overall, these will be easy fixes and I will be able to make my images better.

portrait critique

Portrait Critique

Julia and Maddie helped me critique my photos. They commented their suggestions and they are listed below.

For this photo, I might try to fix the lighting. I want to create a more natural light instead of a pinkish tint.

For this photo, I want to reshoot the photo in the same position because the overall idea of the photo is fine. There is a dark shadow in the right bottom corner that I want to eliminate. I also want to fix the hair of my models so that their hair will not fall over their shoulder and instead be like Harper's in the photo.

Another critique that Julia and Maddie mentioned was to incorporate a fourth outside photo of one of my parents (so that a middle aged person will also be included).

Cooper told me that I should shoot this picture in less zoom and in a different location. He thinks the ESJ logo takes away from the picture and your eyes are drawn to the ESJ logo. He thinks i should zoom out  and get the plate in the picture or i should move location.

Knox also thinks I should retake this because she thinks it is too busy. She also thinks it is hard to tell he is playing baseball so she thinks I need to change the environment.

portrait critique

Knox told me that I should change my out of studio photos. I will change the setting of the model to make it fit the theme better. I will also change my models to the original two that I had in studio.

Photo Critique

Emma and Emily critiqued my photos. They thought I should clean up the background and close the door. They also thought adding more light and a less annoyed father will make the picture have the right outcome. They also thought that making sure my dad wasn't reoccupied would help as well.

for these i need to shoot them in an environment where they relate to more then just a brick wall. 

                                                      

 

critique

 Brooke said that I needed to keep my photo project consistent by photographing Harper again in her environmental picture. This is because I shot Brooke in and out of studio as well as Julia in and out of studio.

Brooke also said that I should try and find an in studio picture of Harper that does not cut off her arms, or retake her photo so I can show her whole body. This way it will look more consistent with the other in studio photos. 

Critique

The two people to critique my photos were Serena and Maddie. Both of them mentioned the extra white space on the sides of the photo. They suggest that I crop the extra white space out to make the flower pop more.

critique

 like the shallow depth of field

 reshoot because of focus

like the eyes and cropping

 possibly reshoot because of the back eye

 like depth of field and angle

very organized, like how the eyes and lips "pop"










Abigail Jones 

critic

both knox and emily told me that on my instudio that I need to capture the full arm to make it look like it is not cropped. I need to retake them to see the full arm.

Photo critics

Annie said that I should focus more on my lighting for my pictures with Courtney. She said they were a bit dark and and I should illuminate Courtney more and pull her from the backdrop. Brantley also noticed that my lighting was a bit dark. I think I'm going to reshoot the picture of Courtney sitting sideways and make sure her dress doesn't blend in to the backdrop.

photo critics

Alexandra Jenney

I asked Abby Beaver for advice on my project and she advised me to crop empty space on one of my photos, but other than that she said that she loved the lighting and how the color red was featured in my in studio and out of studio photos.

portrait project feedback

for my in studio photos, Abby said to make Ella more vertical in one of the pictures. In the photo of Ella holding a cupcake, her hip is slightly popped out on one side and makes the picture look a little bit unbalanced. Charlie said that in one of my pictures, she looks emotionless when she should look happier. Since my theme is wishful thinking she should have a happier reaction.

Critics

Through my in-studio and out of studio pictures I have received feedback. All in all people said they were good but they told me to change a few things. They told me to change the lighting with one picture and also to change the background of another. I have taken these into account and I have changed the lighting but I felt like the background was intentional.

Portrait project feedback

For my pictures, Ella said she really liked their facial expressions. She liked that I didn't do all dead pan expressions, which added personality to the pictures. Emily said she liked them as well. The one thing she said she would change is a small shadow on the white mirror picture. 

portrait project feedback

For my pictures, Annie and Abby said they really liked them. Annie liked the asymmetry in some of the pictures.

Portrait

  For my portrait project I will be trying to capture my models personality. I plan on having my in studio models be Thomas and Clayton. For Thomas I am planning on doing something that captures his energetic and creative personality. I would like the lighting to be even and focus be on Thomas and whatever he may be holding. For Clayton I plan on using his love of baseball. I, most likely, will have him in uniform with a bat or a ball. I would like the lighting and focus to be the same as my pictures with Thomas. For my out of studio picture I was going to shot when it is very bright, around 2-3 pm, as well as when the lights start to dim, around 4-6 pm. For these photos I plan on using my two younger siblings to portray a happy personality as well as a more sad personality once it begins to get dark.

I plan to get people in their happiest state. I plan to have someone eating ice cream, maybe a couple different pictures of cooper eating the ice cream from an ice cream cone or maybe biting into the ice cream cone with ice cream in it. I also plan to have someone listening to music through headphones and be looking at a phone. I plan to have evelyn almost as

I am going to do a Mardi Gras theme. I will use masks. I’m gonna put a blue

Mask on Evelyn. I will put a black mask on Julia and I still need to decide my last model. I may bring in other Mardi Gras materials to go with models. These materials will be used to create a Mardi Gras theme. For my out of studio I will take the masks to different scene and pick the color of the mask to correspond with the mood of the scene.

revised idea of portrait

Im still planning on doing the sports portrait but maybe do it in variety of colors or just black and white. If i dont end up doing the sports i will get pictures of everyones faces in focus and detail. i would make it black and white with a black background and dim lighting. i want to get multiple people and just capture their personalities and how they feel. i think i will be able to tell how they feel by their eyes and the expressions on their face.

portrait Clayton

portrait Clayton

I plan to do sports portraits of different people in their different uniforms. i plan to do lacrosse, soccer, basketball, and baseball. i would like to do different shots of each person having something to do with their sport. like for example, soccer  i want to have kieran in his soccer uniform and cleats, juggling a soccer ball, for basketball i would like to have mike dribbling a basketball. Also, for baseball, i want thomas in his uniform to act like he's getting ready to pitch.

portrait project ideas