Hi everyone. What are your feelings about this one?

2emeagauche: The haphazard composition and low level make it feel quite hip-shotty, which doesn't seem justified in a situation where one is photographing performers...not that it's good practice in most situations, but in this case, it just seems even more unnecessary, particularly when most of this shot is a reaction to the photographer.

here we go again. I like the triangle of closed eyes and hidden face, the executioner and the eye on the right.

Metalman844: It would be considerate to critique the photo above yours before asking for critique of your own photo. What you give is what you get.

l.jnt34: Parades and events like this are great places to ease into street photography. It seems like you're really happy with this shot, so perhaps take that enthusiasm to create similar shots of regular, non-performing people in public spaces and see what happens.


Metalman844: You know what to do.

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www.flickr.com/photos/199673300@N03/] l.jnt34: This isn't bad at all. I looked at it for a good while. I don't know about a "triangle" - I don't find it particularly geometrical as it's too cluttered but it's layered and has little self referencing details that let me study it. It'd be nice if it wasn't quite so busy as we look further in, but hey ho, it was a public event after all. I'd be quite pleased with this one but we know it's not going to win any prizes. Not thriller but decent filler. (My whole portfolio summed up.)

Poagao: Thanks. I continue to practice in every day life but people are more suspicious in my small town in France about street photography. I haven't always the guts to shoot closed.

Joseph Allen-Keys: Thanks for the feedback. I have succeed to take some photo without a busy background at the event but I don't think they are powerfull at this one. Combined moment, light and composition isn't easy but I continue trying.

Thank you very much again for all your previous feedbacks.
Can you please give me your opinions again?
Thank you.

I hear we go. Any feedback about what is good (if any), what might be for discarding and how could I improve my street photography are welcome.

David Sz.: Too far away, very little human element. Color coincidences noted, but not enough to even begin to save this.

gramhorst: The main feature of the photograph is someone else's art. And also, if you read the rules you'd know that it would be nice if you could have left a critique of the above photo or waited for someone else to do so before posting your own.

Anyway, interesting that both of these are from several years ago.

Poagao:

Thank you very much :)
Well, the reason is because I have some secret favourites from the past, and without proper feedback, I won't make progress. So thank you for your effort.

Thank you so much for your feedback, really appreciate it. So sorry to have missed such an important rule. My apologies.

I feel sorry for dingadingdang as noone has replied in four days. The photo doesn't personally do anything for me but I can't say there's anything wrong with it. Framing seems fine and it's nice and close. Something has caught his attention and he's stooping and holding the seat of a bicycle, though I'm not sure how intriguing all that is to anyone, but it might be. Hopefully someone else can give a perspective on it.

dingadingdang:

Nice framing, very close, good and well executed candid street portrait... but not very interesting unfortunately.
One detail I'm not convinced about is that the entire background is quite sharp, it's eye-catching, but it's really a waste of time looking at it from all sides because there's nothing of value.
Anyway, it's a good photo, I wouldn't throw it away.

Thanks for the comments guys, appreciated as always

dingadingdang: Well composed photo (not sure how much it was cropped), that could pose some questions. Is he stealing someone's bike and got noticed? Good street portrait / facial expression that could imply a story.

Hi Everyone,
My first post on this thread, I'd appreciate your feedback!

I keep waiting for something interesting to come down those stairs since you allotted them so much real estate in your frame, but no such luck.

pawel.bogun: You've got two or three photos in your stream that are really good which I would like to have taken myself. This one has a decent moment but framing wise it's all on the left and overall doesn't really succeed that well. I agree with Justin, and was one of the first things that struck me too, that there's nothing happening on the steps, and the steps take up more than half of the frame.

pawel.bogun: There's a very slight straighten, which probably wasn't needed at all, I lost maybe 3-5% of the image

justinsdisgustin Merlin 5 I was trying to tie the gesture of the girl towards the mannequin with empty stairs adding to that vibe of someone real not being there for her, but that's probably a bit of a stretch...and I agree there's probably too much stairs in the frame :) It all requires too much mental gymnastics to carry the point. Maybe if I had someone walking away / up the stairs in there too, that would make it more powerful. Thanks for the feedback Guys, I think I now know how I'd make that photo better :)

Facial expression and posture are intriguing.

pawel.bogun:
What MIGHT have worked (but with hypotheticals one never knows) is if you shot this from the stair side getting the girl's expression in profile with that hand rail acting as a guiding line to the interesting part. Ultimately though, for me the "moment" captured is a bit trite.

justinsdisgustin:

Agreed, the photo is maybe half-done and the story that I created to justify what it's lacking is making it worse. It is what it is and it's not standing out in any meaningful way. Thanks for the reality check, I appreciate it.

I know is far from perfect. It doesn’t reflect the vibe and profound emotion of the moment. I would appreciate some advice on how to approach these situations in the future.

It’s after Argentina won the World Cup and people went out to the streets to celebrate.

I think it's a nice shot, capturing a great moment and there's lots to look at! Unfortunately the bus is a bit far away. Perhaps if it was isolated more or you were able to crop or zoom in? There are a lot of elements (or people) competing for the viewers attention so it's hard to see a main subject. I wonder if a larger object in the foreground or something else that could create framing to isolate the bus. Or perhaps not, I don't know, all I know is that I like it!

Agree with the above comments - its too far away from anything, so there is too much competition for attention. In any of the groups of things to focus on, it doesn't look like there is anything interesting to keep focus. Must have been a crazy celebration though!

gramhorst: can you post it smaller please? I can still make out some details at this size.

First submission for critique, any feedback is appreciated, cheers..

gramhorst: Generally at parades and such, turning around 180 degrees can do wonders.

wusson: Try and get closer to actual people and see what happens.

Poagao:

Thanks for the feedback. I definitely need to push myself out of my comfort zone and get closer more. I'd hoped it was an interesting photo in spite of the distance

Hi thanks for the feeback! Poagao I do have 180 degrees pics, here you have one that I liked:

gramhorst: See, already much better, though the square crop isn't doing you any favors, and you might try to get more fronts of people instead of all backs. (But just remember, as per the rules at the top of the thread, only one photo for critique per week.)

Thank you so much!

Please give me your honest opinion. Thank you!

David Sz.: It's nice enough color arrangement, but literally everything about the composition, from the timing, framelines, light and tilt, are urging the viewer's gaze to GTFO.

Poagao:

Thank you very much.
Maybe it could work next to an another picture?

David Sz.: I'm not sure how the M sign and the people relate to one another. The M sign seems to be pointing them up the stairs, but they are pointing off the left of the frame. I want to see either what they are point at or feel that they are pointing the same direction as the sign.

Failing that, I'd like either the M to be out of the shadow or to see the faces of the people. There are a lot of interesting lines and context to look at, but no clear subject.

What are our thoughts on this one:

xvobaajn86: This seems to be mostly about various people reacting to your camera from perhaps not the best angle.

Thank you. What angle would you suggest?

xvobaajn86: Hard to say as I wasn't there, thus the "perhaps". I might have tried for something more head on and chosen a more natural moment, but as I don't know the scene I can't say definitively.

Thank you!

Nothing to do here, so I try this one:

::ErWin: That's a lot of water.

Yes, they need it for the boats.

It's been a while!

dingadingdang: Market shots like this are difficult to make stand out, as it's often a kind of performative scene, not quite street-performer-performative, but sometimes it helps to dig a little deeper, emotionally and honesty-wise. I don't feel like the guy on the right is really adding much to the scene as is; perhaps another angle might have helped. The temptation is often to shoot at the level that is quickest and least obtrusive, especially with something like the GR, but that's not always the best choice. YMMV of course.

Poagao:

Thanks for the feedback! Everyone is very polite in here these days!

dingadingdang:

“Thanks for the feedback! Everyone is very polite in here these days!”

Rest assured we’re still brutally honest about our inputs.

Hello everyone. I don’t really know how this works but I’ll try. This is the first time I will probably get critique, if I might. I am pretty much new to street photography and every year I try to set new personal challenges to cope with my anxiety. Photography led me to feel away from it but at the same time to be more on that state when I think I want to get closer. Last year I had the chance to be in London and I took this one. I am not really sure why I click the shutter or what make me feel do it but I felt there might be something. I am not an expert on analyzing or studying my pictures because I always feel there is something missing. I hope you can give me some input to tray to figure out that riddle with the time. Thanks.

www.flickr.com/photos/rramosg/54293817349/

dingadingdang:

I agree that nothing really stands out. Fully 25-30% of the frame is taken up by the guy on the right and he's just kind of . . . .there. The back of his head, that big shoulder--there's nothing really much to connect with. You have a different picture if a face was visible there.

nudnikhdk:

Crowded photographs will often work when characters’ faces are visible (instead of backs) so at least we can relate to any emotion they have to offer. Also, less cluttered characters will make the viewer enjoy every bit of anything inside the frame, repetitive gestures and figures/colors formed is also a plus.

Your photo, we have one character that at least makes me engage for a bit then the rest at the back is just chaos and loses the momentum. There is literally nothing there, it’s a blackhole, and im lost in that space.

P.S.
Post a proper picture next time, not a link. It saves us time to view it.

Arthur Quejadas II thanks for the feedback. I intended to do Post the proper picture but i could not manage on my phone or at least i did not tried enough. I won’t really bring all my pictures to this discussion at once but i believe I’ll come back here once in a while. Thanks for the real feedback. Glad you took the time as well. Cheers

nudnikhdk:

Thanks. Some days will be slow from admods but you can trust people here giving critiques and advice.

nudnikhdk: the shallow depth of field does you no favors.

JUSTIN vogel thanks Justin. Thanks for pointing that out! I’ll pay closer attention to depth of field in future.

New member and first post. I found this group via the Streetlife Podcast after wanting to find somewhere other than instagram to see, discover and share street photography. It's also brought me back to Flickr after more than a decade away. So i'm diving in.

martinellardstreet: It's not a bad moment for some kind of event. One way it might have been better would be to shoot from a higher level in order to avoid mashing the people all together as much, as well as putting more of the sea and sand behind the people.

martinellardstreet:

Like TC said, it could have been framed better but I don’t really know, it seems like there’s no other way to avoid the unfortunate overlap.

“A photo that you know it has potential but at the same time you already knew you’re going to fuck up because you’re on the wrong place but you gonna take the shot anyway because, why not?”situation kind of thing.

It’s always interesting to get feedback from different points of view. It’s good to see how others would imagine the situation. The truth and context here is that i walked out of a doorway just as this happened and i have a few shots as everything moved fast, but this one is the most uncluttered. For me the background has no relevence and the row of yellow and black is what caught my eye. But as has been mentioned, in a perfect world i would love to have had more time to place people but that was not the situation, it was very reactive. But feedback is invaluable.

martinellardstreet:

Street photography is really hard if one strives for a high standard and the smallest details can make or break a photo.

"It’s always interesting to get feedback from different points of view. It’s good to see how others would imagine the situation."

Noone has said there's anything wrong with the content.
The feedback given here is spot on and is given objectively from a technical point of view rather than subjectively. Objectively, meaning cleaner framing, separation of people and avoiding overlaps, more interesting angles, possible inclusion of backgrounds that can make the overall photo more interesting, etc. Unfortunately, noone looking at a photo thinks or cares about the context and process the photographer went through. They'll either find the photo worthwhile looking at for a longer time or they'll quickly move on.

it's been sometime since i last posted on flickr. let's get back to it: what do you guys think of this one?

guilherme g leão:

Nicely framed but there’s this thing about event that there should be more to it not just the “feeling” of “this is an event/festivities” - there is nothing special about this frame, just nicely executed in terms of framing - which is a good thing, a good street photography should be a good photography, first.

thanks, and yeah, it makes sense. I'm not used to photographying people in events, so I was treating it somewhat like any other day in the street (looking for color, framing, gesture etc.). but it did feel a bit "cheaper", for lack of a better word. hopefully something came out more interesting than this one

guilherme g leão:

The eye contact adds some interest to the image. Good that the frame is filled with subjects of interest. The shadows add some intrigue too. The person in the foreground (right) might be considered a little distracting perhaps. Good shot though.

Not posted here before. Flickr user from back in the day and just heard that this group was still active but did not discover it the first time around. Here is an image for critique. I welcome any thoughts...

martinellardstreet:

I really like this shot. I also found this group through the Street Photography podcast and trying to avoid Instagram. The juxtaposition of the police and the man on the mobility scooter works really well. The gesture of Elvis adds to this and the background is nice and clean. Was this 28mm focal length?

artystaphotography:

I like it. This is actually has good elements but it feels like you didn’t use your time wisely to cook it well. The framing feels lazy(at least to my point of view) but again, didn’t really know. I’m quite positive that a lower perspective and/or work the geometry available could have been a better outcome.

Arthur Quejadas II Thanks so much for taking the time to feedback. I agree on the framing. The man in pink trousers walked past as I spotted the shoe so I had to quickly compose everything together in my viewfinder and take the shot. I am unsure if a lower perspective would work in terms of including the key elements in the frame but I could be wrong. I may post another next week with better framing (hopefully) as see opinions on that. Thanks again. Andy

After years of not having done street photography, I have picked up my GR III again to do some photography along my business and private travel. Though I continued to follow groups like this, I still need to get the hang again. Below picture is the first of the last few weeks, I am reasonably happy with. The style is quite different to what is normally in this group. It was taken in an airport lounge and I named it "No Man's Land".

So I have two questions for you:
a) would you consider this street photography at all?
b) what do you think of the picture?

martinstelbrink: It's definitely SP IMHO. The top part is graphically kind of interesting, but that's a whole lot of empty white space on the bottom.

thanks for your feedback!

martinstelbrink:

So I have two questions for you:
a) would you consider this street photography at all?
b) what do you think of the picture?

A. Sure, why not?
B. I think it looks like you snapped a quick sneaky shot with no thought towards composition, color play, or lighting. The rest of your photos, in the "nature/travel" variety, in contrast, seem thoughtfully composed, well exposed, and visually pleasing. So...what's going on here? is shooting in public something you are uncomfortable with?

Thanks for your thoughtful comment and looking at my other work. I am not uncomfortable to shoot in public, probably just not trained. Most of the time in street one has to react very quickly on situations. In this one I had lot's of time to take the camera out and I took a number of conscious decisions. Seems they didn't work out so great... On color I used the desaturated negative film mode, I chose to include a lot of the table in the picture to show this "unnaturally clean" atmosphere in the airport lounge. I wanted the reflection of the plane tail over the guy's ear to correspond with the similar tail through the window (almost like over ear headphones). I also loved the rimless glasses that worked for me with all the glass and reflections. I consciously didn't want the usual "two-thirds, faces look into the picture" composition, but I guess there's a reason, why they work... I was thinking of the lounge, and the fact the guy was waiting in "between the worlds"... Well that's what was on my mind.

i just bought this 56mm 1.7 lenses for my a6400 and i'm been walking around amsterdam trying to get the hang of it.

i never really shot with prime lenses like these, so getting to used to not having a zoom crutch is both weird and quite interesting. also, it has been years since i actually felt like i could go out and be challenged by what i'm using.

in general, i love it -- it's still quite weird to be so zoomed in, but on the other hand, you can be quite far away from a subject and still get some quality shots (by my standards).

scruffles0: Yeah such a long focal length might be good for portraits and faraway feeling shots, but the compression has the tendency to make everything feel kind of far away, and might make it more of a challenge to instill a sense of intimacy or presence in the photographs. Still, cool that you love it and are enjoying photography with it.

scruffles0: Are you seeking critique for this photo or just sharing a brief review of your new lens?