It’s always embarrassing when we see our old photos, even not including a self-portrait in that. This self-critiques on my old images are for my personal growth, not only technical parts of it, but more facing what I missed and see my weakness without having biased glasses.
A couple of months ago, I posted “Practice cropping the components of photos“, quality-photography includes composition, containing elements of 1. lights, 2. colors, 3. texture (details of the surface), 4. moments (what moment could be significant), 5. shape (creates dynamics and harmony), 6. perspective (A photographer or subject's points of view. ex. Eye level to a subject, such as the same eye level as a baby in baby portrait.)
Based on the perspectives, today I am going to leave critiques on my old travel photos.
Those photos below were from San Francisco back in 2014. My sister and I had the company for ‘a hipster food trip‘ over there, and we found a cute/fine modern American restaurant in the town.
At the time, I did not know about light, details, or any other elements to amp up photos.. and those look… a little pushed me away from seeing how careless I was on editing…
Anyway, let’s review the photos with a short comment on each.
1. Too dark. Need brightness over the photo.
2. Not completed. A whole dish should be inside of the frame.
3. Colors off and boring.
5. No good light with the scene.
4. No detailed colors on food and missing the point.
6. Missing moments.
7. No significance.
8. No colors and missing perspective.
Maybe next time, I will go over critiques with more detailed explanation. But for today, I guess those are enough not to be too harsh on myself.. : )
Thank you so much for reading. Byee.