Thinker

[Freuzel]

I'm quite happy with this photo and I have used it at my photo classes for the subject "moods". But there is something not right, but I can't figure out what. Got any ideas to improve this photo?

[CLKunst]

At first glance to me it looks like your foreground is too soft. Perhaps shooting this with a smaller aperture would bring better focal consistency throughout. Also the light seems to have a yellow cast to it, however that could just be the grain of the stone, can't tell.

[GB1]

Freuzel,

Well, for one, you're clipping off the top of 'its' head... not that conventional compositions are always the way to go, but I think that here, it just doesn't work. The black background is nice, to me anyways. But I dont really care for the dark shadow (?) in the center of the statue - it limits visible information in a picture that is missing a lot of stimulation already, due to its simplicity.

In all, I guess it's alright for what it is, but the few issues I listed here sort of prevent it from being a winner. It's tough to take a photo of a very simple object like this and make it worth a second or third look. I guess that's the challenge.

-gb

[LeeIs]

I'm not gonna add any enlightning posts to this thread, but I think the shadow just doesn't reflect the figure well enough. Infact, it looks totally different than what the figure would cast.

[Freuzel]

Thank you all! I will try to make it slightly better by using a smaller appenture and get rid of the shadow by the arm. I will show the result soon!