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Uploaded by JaviNavarro - 10 comments - Topic: Street photography (11 months ago)  


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JaviNavarro (Javier Navarro) said 11 months ago:

Mirador de San Nicolás in Granada, Spain. The best place to see the Alhambra.

juanantonio (J.A. Pellicer) added a critique 11 months ago:

Bonita fotografia, equilibrada, real y colorista composicion. Enhorabuena. Saludos

jcniguez (José Carlos Ñíguez) added a critique 11 months ago:

Bonita y equilibrada composición, excelente luz. Enhorabuena Javi.

jvgphoto (jon van gilder) added a critique 11 months ago:

This is very strange to my eye - I don't quite get what you were trying to achieve with this shot. Very interesting crops you have chosen as well. I keep coming back to it - it draws me in, I admit. Good work - I think!

Best,
Jon

Beamer (Clyde Beamer) added a critique 11 months ago:

There are a number of "strange" things about this image. The processing appears to be some type of HDR and has created some unattractive halos around the trees and the castle. This is not a very good subject for HDR.
The other thing that is strange about this is the lack of focus(interest). Your comment would appear to indicate that you were interested in the viewing of the castle, yet the castle is a very background and non-focused part of the flow of this image, also, almost none of the people are looking at it. One guy is taking a picture of it. The image is very unbalanced. The horizon is dead center. The detailed foreground fights for attention and yet is not really a part of your subject.

My suggestion would have been to walk forward and shoot the castle "over the shoulder" of the guy taking the picture. Even then the rest of the people would be looking at you. If you want the flow of the image to be the castle you really have to achieve a very different composition, maybe waiting till a group of people are actually looking at it.

JaviNavarro (Javier Navarro) said 11 months ago:

Thanks for all your comments.

Beamer, the focus of the image is not the castle, it's the place itself. This is a place from where you can see the Alhambra (the castle) and many diferent people come to see the view. Some play music, some sell rings or anything handmade... It's an interesting place to see very diferent people. That's what I wanted to tell with the photo.

Beamer (Clyde Beamer) added a critique 11 months ago:

@Javier, well with that motive, I still don't think you achieved success. The people are not doing any of those things. They appear to just be sitting or standing around and one guy taking a picture. I still think the composition is weak and cluttered, not really guiding your eye to anything in particular. The centered horizon pulls down any interest, the foreground still fights for attention without delivering any of your motive.

Sorry if this disappoints, but it is my honest critique.

photoaholic (Geoffrey Reynertz) added a critique 11 months ago:

this picture is interesting, i'm not sure HDR was necessary here but surely it makez the shot very different. Quite unreal, i'm not sure i like but i can not stop looking at it.
whatever, the colour are wonderfull

JaviNavarro (Javier Navarro) said 11 months ago:

Beamer, I accept your critique. I just explained what I wanted to say with the photo. Your comment doesn't disappoints me. It will help me to take a better photo next time.

Thanks :)

rdavs (Rhonda Spencer) added a critique 11 months ago:

I love how the people look in this shot, the only distraction I see is the darkening of the sky between to two trees.

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