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Friday Photo Critique #27

Friday Photo Critique #27

on Apr 9th 2010 with 22 comments

Friday Photo Critique is our weekly community project, where we publish a photograph submitted by one of our wonderful readers, then ask you all to offer constructive feedback on the image.

It’s a great way to learn more about photography, express your viewpoint, and have your own image critiqued. Your response will also be displayed with a link to your website or portfolio, so be sure to enter it correctly when submitting a comment!

Quick Ground Rules

  1. Play nice! We’ve deliberately chosen photographs that aren’t perfect, so please be constructive with any criticism.
  2. Feel free to offer any type of advice – composition, lighting, post-processing etc.
  3. You can also link to photographs that you feel offer a great example of this type of image shot exceptionally well.

Without further ado, here is this week’s candidate for Friday Photo Critique!

The Photograph

Photo Critique

Photographer: Simon Fielder

Please let us know what you think in the comments – how would you have approached the scene or taken the photo differently? A massive thank you to everyone who commented last week.

The most constructive and helpful comments will be featured on the site, and you’ll also be given priority to feature your own work in a future Friday Photo Critique!.

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  • Rudolf

    It looks like you build the scene withall the doors at the same position, but I still think it´s a great photo, good job.

    I´m the first

  • Mike..

    love the color and the contrast.. i would maybe tone down or darken the orange a little on the brick area before the first door.. nice job tho!

  • http://www.paramidoh.blogspot.com Javier

    The depth in this picture is very inmersive, and my eyes are guided to the end of the passage. Sadly you don’t get to see whats in the end. I would have love to see something less dark. But maybe that would have ruin the picture. Tough call.

    And by the way, is there a way to know what mm was used in this picture?

    • Davide Di Bucchianico

      Check the exif, it has been shot at a focal lenght of 18mm on an aps-c sensor (which makes it around 27mm)

  • http://www.webbinteractivedesign.com Matt W.

    I like really like this photo. It has a Silent Hill look and feel.

  • http://cameraguyzack.blogspot.com/ Zack Jones

    I know this is going to sound silly but the first thing that jumped out at me was the 3rd door isn’t at a similar angle as the first two. Other than that I like it. I’d love to hear more about the site where it was taken.

    • Amanda

      I noticed it too. neither is the 4th door.

  • Simon Gregory

    I dont know much about photography im only an amateur but from a design point of view, i would add light sources coming from the other end of the hall and from inside each door, also id distribute the openings of the doors more evenly. really like it!

  • Simon Gregory

    also if there was another door in the foreground that would look great, add to the perspective more so that the wall does

  • Amanda

    Hi,
    On first glance the picture is really nice. On closer inspection it looks sort of conflicted. The photographer may have been going for this but the scene itself is grungy but it looks like a faux grunge. The bricks are shiny and look new. the doors look newish or freshly painted, the windows in the one door looks perfect.
    Is the image supposed to be Grungish or what is it suppose to portray? It’s not bad by no means, the image is really interesting. I may have tried to point the doors in the same direction for some uniformity but that is just me. You might not want that.

  • http://www.mceown.net Geek Girl SF

    First off, I love the colours in this.

    The different angels on the doors do give it kind of an odd perspective if you stop and study it for a moment or two… I think this is OK if you are going for a more disturbing aesthetic but I actually had to pause for a moment and wonder if the 3rd door had been photoshoped.

    I also find the lighting a little off – I would either go darker by further darkening the foreground and adding to the grunge feel or, I would lighten up the background and provide a little more overall detail.

    These things are minor though…

  • Paul Corey

    I noticed the doors as well. I think the issue is that the first two doors are uniform. After seeing those two you would assume all the rest would be as well, but they are not. I guess my only criticism is that the doors should either all be uniform, or all at different angles. Of coarse this is just my opinion.

    The artist is probably thinking to themselves, its causing them to wonder whats up with the doors, Ive succeeded!

  • earthrokk

    Good photo technically, but subject is kind of boring. Would have been nice if you had a model on the bricks and first door. That would look great.

    Keep shooting.

    • earthrokk

      BTW,

      Should have tried to capture the bricks and the First door with just the nameplate with a wide lense and large aperture. You could have focused on the nameplate with a sliver of the rest of the hall in the image and out of focus.

  • http://www.farstudio.net/gallery/ Lori

    I really like the look of the photo. The exposure is great.

    The only problem I have with it is the group of lighter bricks on the left side of the photo draw the eyes away from the more important aspects. If the photo is proportionally cropped to 1590 pixels, (or perhaps 1590 and 1192pixels), the distractions are eliminated without harming the photos impact.

  • Dee Boesen

    I love the picture. Never the less, I did wonder why the doors were fresh painted. It looks like an old school hallway. How about an beat up tennis shoe or book laying on the floor somewhere? I hope to be as creative as Simon.

  • http://www.bogaziciders.com özel ders

    corridor seems horrible. but the door is not so. leather worn with a corridor. Maybe the skin is changing. but the door is not so. At first glance, looks like the colors vibrant. Net hope it helps. but inside I tickle. and questions coming. Where the door is opened.

  • Ashley

    At first glance I notice the doors, like everyone else. The bricks have a shine to them, and the reflection of the window at the top of the bricks I find very distracting. Great Photo though! Keep up the good work!

  • Nico

    I think it would be a nice HDR. Maybe you could try a tonemapping version in photoshop. Just a thought. Good picture.

  • http://phillipjacobsphotography.com Phillip Jacobs

    It is a very nice photography… There are a couple of suggestions that would make it a GREAT photograph though.

    The hallway that leads away is too dark so either you have to lighten that up so the viewer can see what’s down there.

    Or you go the other route and just don’t give the viewer a chance to think about what’s down there. So I think you should do a lens blur to give the first door a nice pop and the rest of the hallway and windows get lens blurred.

    If you would have captured the dof naturally in the camera it would have been even better.

  • Dario

    Is it just me or is the framing just a tad bit tilted. This gave the photo sort of a sloppy feel to me. It can easily be fixed though. Not a big deal.

  • http://www.ozeldersveren.com özel ders

    I think it would be a nice HDR. Maybe you could try a tonemapping version in photoshop. Just a thought. Good picture.