DSLR Photography Forum

Hi Guys,

Just wondering if you could critique this photo. Well two photos actually, but it is stitched together. Brutal opinions are welcomed.


Cheers

The first thing that came to my mind when I first saw your pictures was... Why he did it BW? Looking at the pieces I can imagen a beautiful gold or silver color against a contrasting dark colored background.

Come again to the pictures, I see that you have some reflections: dark shadows, lights and highlights, somehow distracting and taking away detail of the pieces. The photographer didn't have the right light. I still don't know if that might be the reason why he converted the pictures in BW.

About the subject this is a picture about somebody else's art. I don't know how the artist would feel about chopping off parts of his masterpiece to fit in a photograph composition. I thought about Leonardo da Vinci, and how he would feel If a photographer took a picture of his Mona Lisa and crops hands and background because they would be distracting or wouldn't fit in his/her portrait composition.

These are my thoughts about your pictures...

Thanks Irma.
All great comments greatly appreciated. In regards to the highlights/shaddows do you mainly believe that this is in the photograph on the right or on both pictures?

I think both have their problem Adam, the one in the left has some highlights, and the one of the right has more reflections and shadows.

I want to say that at the beginning I was always so keen on not having anything blown out. I always wanted to have everything with detail. With the time I found that it really doesn't matter much if you have something blown out or in deep shadows, if that helps to have good contrast in your picture, but I don't think it works when they affect your main subject ...

Color and detail are the most important aspects in this kind of pictures, imo....