Please Critique My Composition

[saddison]

Just back from Florida last week and while I was looking through my vast amount of photos from WDW over the years it struck me that my photos may not be very interesting. So I decided to put some of my photos (both WDW and personal) up on Flickr and see what others thought of them. I have below what I consider some of my best work. Please feel free to rip them apart and let me know what you think.

And if you feel overly ambitious feel free to go to Flickr and comment on the rest.

 

[emmabelle]

I think you did a nice job with them, although I'm far removed from being an expert!

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Everyone has their own interpretation of things. I would suggest you look back through the many photo contest and other Disney threads to see what "other" types of things you could try which you may not have tought of before.

In the meantime, for a critique - since you asked. This is just my interpretation or thoughts on how you might be able to make your pictures more interesting. All of us are always learning.

If you have a basic editing program, maybe try the following:

#3 try cropping off the left side of the building and tree, to just beside the clock.

#4 try cropping off some of the sky and area to the right of the frog, and (if you're good at Photoshop) get rid of the crooked lampost, leaving just the frog, buildings, chairs, and spray.

#5 first, straighten the picture; second, crop to leave just a little on the bottom of the metalwork base, and to the first line of the top of the metalwork. When you were taking the picture, using a larger (ie lower number) aperture would have blurred the purple flowers in the background which would also look really nice. This might have worked best if you stepped to the left a bit in order to get that big bunch of purple flowers in your picture. Another angle which might have been interesting would have been to shoot it from the ground looking up. (This could be a nice picture for the upcoming architecture contest, possibly.)

Last picture, you could possibly crop tighter to show just the characters and castle.

These are just suggestions. Play around with them however you like and see what works best. Maybe after all is said and done you'll like them as they are. They are very nice to start.

Here is a thread on Composition if you're interested. As you can see, I'm working on it myself.

 

[disgirl52]

Im by no means a great photographer, but i think that the 3rd one is gorgeous! It makes me want to hop on a plane and go to disney right now. The other ones are also great

 

[ukcatfan]

None are horrible, but could use some help. I usually take multiple versions of each shot to try to capture it the best. That way you can look in greater detail when you are home and pick the best. In general, read up on the rule of thirds, try to define what the true subject of the shot is, and try to keep interference out of the shot.

#1 What is the subject? Also, the landscape looks under exposed while the sky is over exposed. A graduated ND filter would have been helpful. Some PP might help some.

#2 straighten and re-frame. What is the subject, the castle or the statue? With the statue blocking the castle, the castle just seems to interfere.

#3 The castle is the primary subject, but it is almost out of the frame. Cropping will help, but it is a little too late.

#4 Straighten and crop. Remember the rule of thirds.

#5 Straighten it. I think a macro shot would have looked nicer here.

#6 Not bad. Maybe straighten a little.

Kevin