Author Topic: Critique Away (Read 10139 times)

hjaphotography · « **on:** October 04, 2008, 01:20 »

I'm thinking od send some of my Pet photo's in to a pet mag and pet calender place...please dont hold back..let me know if you think there worth sending

RH · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2008, 04:12 »

I only would send the 1st one.
Horse is overexposed.
Cat, at the edges you can see the shadowing of the lens hood.
Dog, bad background.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2008, 07:55 »

Stop vignetting everything.

Bateleur · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2008, 09:36 »

Quote from: RH on October 04, 2008, 04:12

I only would send the 1st one.
Horse is overexposed.
Cat, at the edges you can see the shadowing of the lens hood.
Dog, bad background.

A possible problem with the first one is that it appears to be a heavy crop of the third.

What did you take it with? At what resolution? Unless you're using something huge such as a Hassie ... which I doubt ... it probably won't be high enough resolution for a calendar. Maybe even not enough for a magazine.

And don't sign everything with your initials.

stormchaser · « **Reply #4 on:** October 04, 2008, 09:49 »

Quote from: sjlocke on October 04, 2008, 07:55

Stop vignetting everything.

Have to agree. Limited mass market appeal with this look.

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #5 on:** October 04, 2008, 16:18 »

Given this is a microstock oriented group I'm not sure if you're going too many people who have experience specifically dealing directly with pet calendar and magazine companies. But, here's my take:

1. Nice picture but leave it color and let the designer decide if they want to mess with the colors.
2. Looks oversaturated but I could see it on a calendar
3. Composition seems off but can be corrected
4. Too much going on in the background

And on all of them the vignetting is too abrupt and is more of a distraction than a design element.

takestock · « **Reply #6 on:** October 04, 2008, 17:46 »

I agree - the first one is pretty good.

Quote from: RH on October 04, 2008, 04:12

I only would send the 1st one.
Horse is overexposed.
Cat, at the edges you can see the shadowing of the lens hood.
Dog, bad background.

hjaphotography · « **Reply #7 on:** October 08, 2008, 19:00 »

Ok here are the origanal pictures before I messed them up I guess. I also replaced the one of the dog no one liked with another one of my photo's.
Any better? Thank you all for being honest.

Pixart · « **Reply #8 on:** October 08, 2008, 19:49 »

Do you have a signed release for the kids? I'd only sell it as editorial if you don't.

(I like the black&white cat).

Seren · « **Reply #9 on:** October 23, 2008, 01:47 »

Personally I wouldn't send them...

They look soft even from those small thumbs (unless you did something strange to them in photoshop). Plus they look like snap shots, they're not particularly well composed or illustrating a subject.

Big calendar buyers tend to buy from established stock libraries (Alamy is used alot in the UK, so is Getty) so you might have more luck approaching that sort of supplier.

Plus you know, they don't really have the cute appeal. They're all looking at things other than the camera, which sometimes works, but people like their cute fluffy animals to be looking at them from their calendar...

(I should justify this now by saying that one on my images was bought to be used in a calendar, pretty much for exactly what you're talking about).

Xalanx · « **Reply #10 on:** October 24, 2008, 02:55 »

Quote from: Seren on October 23, 2008, 01:47

Personally I wouldn't send them...

They look soft even from those small thumbs (unless you did something strange to them in photoshop). Plus they look like snap shots, they're not particularly well composed or illustrating a subject.

Big calendar buyers tend to buy from established stock libraries (Alamy is used alot in the UK, so is Getty) so you might have more luck approaching that sort of supplier.

Plus you know, they don't really have the cute appeal. They're all looking at things other than the camera, which sometimes works, but people like their cute fluffy animals to be looking at them from their calendar...

(I should justify this now by saying that one on my images was bought to be used in a calendar, pretty much for exactly what you're talking about).

ditto, snapshottish.

Also try not to cut the subjects exactly at the knee level. WB seems to be somewhat off, too.

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