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Rejected Photo
Jul 1, 2016 06:31:56 #
This landscape photo was recently rejected by the judges for a photography competition in RI. No reason given for the rejection. The photo clearly fit within the definition/theme for the class. Your critiques and comments are most appreciated.
Jul 1, 2016 06:39:07 #
Jul 1, 2016 07:16:47 #
I dont know what the judge was looking for .. But for me its that Line across the images make it look as the Drama of the Clouds in Diminished .. Also I would say the Sheep are too far away ..
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Jul 1, 2016 11:10:15 #
mffox wrote:
This landscape photo was recently rejected by the judges for a photography competition in RI. No reason given for the rejection. The photo clearly fit within the definition/theme for the class. Your critiques and comments are most appreciated.
I think it is your composition that caused the rejection. The horizon cuts the frame in half. The top is very dark compared to the bottom half, which is unpleasant. I feel there is no subject in the photo. What is supposed to be the center of attention? What story are you telling? These are the things that the judges might have been concerned with. For me the composition would be focused on the grazing sheep, with less foreground, & a change of angle showing more perspective. Your photography skills are very good, but maybe you need to look into learning more about composition. A photo has to be more than pretty, it needs to direct the viewers attention to what you are seeing, and telling the story. You might have guessed by now that I am an artist as well as a photographer, & composition is one thing I find important.
Jul 1, 2016 12:18:41 #
My eyes keep moving between the dark dramatic sky and the light busy foreground grass. They don't settle on the sheep or the barn as a subject for the photo. Perhaps that's what the judges were looking for.
Jul 1, 2016 13:02:56 #
The brightest part of the image is the foreground - which is empty and unengaging. The part which would have made the image interesting (the area below the horizon) is dark and too distant. The sky's not bad, but on its own it doesn't make the shot, and by the time the viewer's eye gets there the viewer will have lost interest.
Put all of these things together and you have what looks like a beginner's snap of a rather uninteresting bit of countryside. A bit of cropping or zooming might have lifted it to another level.
Put all of these things together and you have what looks like a beginner's snap of a rather uninteresting bit of countryside. A bit of cropping or zooming might have lifted it to another level.
Jul 1, 2016 14:42:56 #
All very good points. Thank you, Canon Lee. I guess I was looking for "pretty", so didn't want to tinker with it. Time for me to revisit my composition lessons.
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Jul 1, 2016 15:34:59 #
Jul 1, 2016 15:36:52 #
Jul 1, 2016 15:41:26 #
You're right. I guess I got carried away with the beauty of the place overall. By the way, the scene is from Scotland, just north of Hadrian's wall, and I was standing in England.
Jul 2, 2016 07:34:33 #
mffox wrote:
You're right. I guess I got carried away with the beauty of the place overall. By the way, the scene is from Scotland, just north of Hadrian's wall, and I was standing in England.
Sorry - didn't recognise it
. I must be more used to the view in the other direction . I think you were probably caught out by the way the eye/brain processes scenes like this. When you view a scene like this, your eye compensates for the brighter and darker areas, equalising them somewhat. When you saw the picture on your computer you were probably surprised by how dark the area below the horizon was. Seeing it with your eye, it probably didn't look particularly dark, and the foreground probably didn't look particularly bright. And viewing the scene first-hand, your attention probably zoomed in to the horizon and the area below the horizon, whereas your camera wouldn't do that unless you told it to. The brain does a lot of that sort of processing automatically without us being aware of it most of the time. That probably explains why much of the time we don't get the picture we were expecting until we do some cropping.
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Jul 2, 2016 08:11:59 #
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Perfect composition, a great feel for lighting, subtlety, shading. It was obviously too good! The best pic on this site in a long time.
Jul 2, 2016 08:34:55 #
I think the fact that there is no "main subject" for the eye to focus on "confuses" the viewer
Jul 2, 2016 09:13:52 #
mffox wrote:
This landscape photo was recently rejected by the judges for a photography competition in RI. No reason given for the rejection. The photo clearly fit within the definition/theme for the class. Your critiques and comments are most appreciated.
I like the layers and the lower potion of the sky. Cropping from the bottom to a 16x9 format would improve it for me by getting the horizon off center and eliminating the uninteresting sky.
Usually "rejection" only happens because an image didn't meet some rule of the competition; e.g. improperly mounted print or an electronic image that doesn't follow the rules on pixels or file size. I don't see this image winning a competition but also don't see it being rejected.
Jul 2, 2016 10:02:05 #
For me nothing is in focus the composition is poor. But working on your landscape's you will get it correct eventually.
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