The document provides tips for improving photography skills through critique, including setting goals, critiquing others' work, and having your own photos critiqued based on questions about what is good, not good, and could be improved. It also outlines four basics that determine a photo's quality: value, clarity, composition, and presentation. Examples are given to illustrate these concepts and how they can be applied in a critique.
2. Set a goal for your self
If you set goals in your photographic career you are
more likely to achieve it faster.
A great way to do this is to critique others
photography to know what to look for in yours.
A great way to take better photos is to let others
critique your photographs.
3. “Crit”
A Crit is one of the best ways to improve your
photography.
A Crit is a group of people closely looking at a
selection of photographs and judging them.
One part of a Crit is to rank the photos as well as
critique them.
4. The 3 basic questions
What is good about it?
What is not good?
How could it be better?
5. Four basics determine a
photographs standards
Value- the range of light in a photo not its price.
Clarity- not just the focus or weather but whether the
photo is focused correctly.
Composition- point of interest, cropping, dynamics
and lines.
Presentation- the care that was taken to print the
photo correctly.
6. Value & Clarity
VALUE- refers to the range of light in the photograph:
from black through shades of gray to white.
I a photo has a lot of black and white but no gray it
may have a lot of impact but not a lot of interest.
CLARITY- is not just about whether a photo is focus
but whether the photo is focused correctly in the right
way.
7. Composition &
Presentation
COMPOSITION- is the hardest to define because it is
so close to “style”, composition has a point of
interest, cropping, negative space, balance, static,
dynamic, weight and lines.
PRESENTATION-is what you look for on the final
print, things like white flecks, variously known as
satellites, glitches, SCUZZ, hickies or glop-stuff on
the negative that shouldn't be there.
8. Chapter 4 critique
This photo has a good subject but
it’s value isn’t that great, it is very
dark and has shadows. The photo
is well focused and is sharp. The
men are too well centered it would
be nice to see more rule of thirds.
The photo is not scratched but is a
little fuzzy.
Chapter 4 picture
9. Professional Critique
In this photo the value is
great but the clarity varies
as you look deeper into the
photo. The composition is
hard to understand in this
picture because it is hard
to tell what the main point
of interest is. The
presentation is good and
very colorful but the photo
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when there was more light.
10. Indian coast
In this photo it has a low
value with barely any light.
The picture is clear but hard
to tell what the object is off
to the right of the photo. The
composition is good
although the building
closest is a little out of focus.
The presentation of this
picture is very nice having
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11. Photo list
O'Brien, Michael, and Norman Sibley. The
Photographic Eye: Learning to See with a Camera.
Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1995. Print.
Brady, Joe. "Mount Moran." N.p., n.d. Web.
Meyer, Paul. "Page Not Found." Page Not Found.
Brooks Institute, 2012. Web. 08 Jan. 2013.
