Let’s have a thread where we act like we have free workshops. Come in and critique my work, and even post your own works for critiques from strangers. After all, isn’t photography about making pretty images for people you don’t really know?
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Cool pics, now to get you a workshop style critique you'd need to explain us what your project is about. I can figure it's about cemeteries, but not much more. Where is this? Why did you include photos both in color and b&W? What is it that inspired you?
>>4515719It was shot in west terrace cemetery, Adelaide, and at the botanical gardens on north terrace. It was inspired by a quote by Friedrich Engels about how life and death require one another, which I think appears in Anti-Duhring. I wanted to contrast nature and life with shadows, cemeteries, and the cenotaphs of monuments to death. I think the relationship between life and death is complex, and one requires the other; we wouldn’t have life without finality, and immortality would be not only boring but indistinct. The colour and B&W mixture was somewhat a mistake but I did want pastel colours against the contrasting of split tone black and white.
>>4515720I see. I was able to piece together the contrast between natural life and human death so I guess you managed that. My main critique would be that there is not a lot of pictures here that would convey it isolated from the series. It's fine to use the series to give meaning to single picture but it's better if there is at least 50% of the pictures that can drive the point home almost by themselves. Picture like >>4515707 seem too out of place, it would be better to be given a bit of context like in >>4515708 . >>4515712 seems to be just a worse version of >>4515700 . It's a good idea to use b&w next to color to contrat, but then you'd need to have a clearer logic behind why pictures are one way or the other. The color pictures appear to have been taken at noon, so under very harsh light. It's not in itself a mistake, but intuitively if we're talking about life and death I would more imagine a very low and dramatic light and clair obscur. Is pastel supposed to represent the artificial nature of marble and plastic flowers? You need to use your pictures to illustrate why you choses those esthetics.Overall I would say you need to refine this draft until there is a clear coherence between your esthetic and thematic choices and your pictures. Also practice taking pictures that embody your concept entirely without the need for support from other pictures. Make choices about the light and the color you want and use those as limitations to create something coherent
