Comments on: Monthly Critique – What’s Your Opinion

By: raj

raj — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:39:11 +0000

bottom line…it’s boring. if it was me, i wouldn’t take this picture with this angle. the only time i will take this subject all at once, is if i have a bird’s eyeview…probably at night.

By: Alice Neer

Alice Neer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:28:30 +0000

I love the photo.
I would have cropped most of the hill out of the right side.
I feel you left it because it shows the home being built into the hillside, but that’s another photo. The valley is the tents and hills running to top right to bottom left. The house built into the hillside it running top left to bottom right. It’s jarring visually.
As to editing on the road.
I Keep my ‘discards’. I see different things once I get home.
I toss what is blurred horribly, and create a separate file for the best photos. It means going through a huge amount of photographs, but I actually enjoy that so it’s not an hardship for me. I also have time for it.

By: Mike Hayward

Mike Hayward — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:05:23 +0000

If I were a tourist, this is the kind of Bedou encampment I’d want to be in to watch the sun go down over the wadi. As such, this image would play extremely well in a travel brochure. It certainly hooked me at first glance.

By: Jeffrey P

Jeffrey P — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:42:55 +0000

Sandy Sue hit it I think. I wish I was there to take this picture. The green eyed monster rears its ugly head(s). I would like to follow your travels.. and see what you come up with when and where… possible?? Rock on and keep shootin’

By: SandySue

SandySue — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:14:53 +0000

Uh, do I detect a little of the green eyed monster in some of these critiques? Bland? Plain? “no purticular subject”? This whole image is ripe with interest. Good composition. How lucky to have the subjects past the tents also. And all this without fancy ediiting software.
In the famous quote: “You’re doin’ a heck of a job Brownie”
Keep it up

By: Autumn Keenan

Autumn Keenan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:26:41 +0000

This photo could be called “bland” or “plain” because of the browns and tans that dominate the picture. I found it hard to determine and focus on one subject. However it is very middle eastern and can be used to depict the lives of the tent-dwellers.

By: Henriette Auerswald

Henriette Auerswald — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:03:12 +0000

I’m not a fundi on photography, but this shot is so unsetteling to the eye. Too many things “not” happening. Maybe 4 different shots would have been better? Wish I could be there

By: Rick Green

Rick Green — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:09:42 +0000

the combination of deep shade and detail in the light keeps you trying to figure it out

By: tmack

tmack — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:58:48 +0000

I think this is a nice snap shot as well but in can be catapulted into greatness by making it two photographs. One woul be of the sky and the mountains careful crop as closely to the mountains as possible. The other would be the tents. To tweak in photoshop i would polarize the sky to make it blue or go completely foggy. I would use curves on the tents if you decide to make it two picks to bring out the colors, textures and tones. I think your journey and your assignment is aspiring. All the best!

By: Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:29:33 +0000

I like this shot, but as has been said I think there are several shots in this, and the flare on the left is distracting. I have looked at the others you have posted to SmugMug and it is a very exciting series. Because of your limitations at the moment I would be reluctant to discard anything I was looking at on an un-calibrated laptop monitor, I would wait until you have the luxury of your proper set up. Editing on the fly is difficult at the best of times and your pictures have so much potential I would wait. I do envy your trip and am looking forward to many more posts to smugmug to follow your journey. Thanks for sharing. Andy.