zerocoolastra,
thanks for your thoughts. Will keep them in mind the next time I try to take such a shot. I had tried your third point though..had to make the guy block the sunlight at the top coz it was making the picture way too underexposed. Everything would have been silhouetted if I didn't.
But I get the overall message...no way to salvage this picture
espion,
I have no problems with the "formalities" except for the fact that most of the time I take a picture simply for the joy of taking one. There are no reasons as to why I took this picture, no statement or purpose except it seemed like a good shot. Even when my professor tells me, "what do you feel from this picture"...sheesh I don't feel anything. Its a photo of a guy going up an escalator. Leave it at that. There are very few pictures from my side that actually have a conceptual message behind them. Will be posting those too.
Posting this one for critiques isn't coz I enjoyed the shot. I posted this one to figure out how to correct it when I shoot something similar the next time. I know I have made errors on my part. Underexposure being the obvious mistake, but see, like zerocoolastra pointed out, there is a streak of light at the 5.30 position..I didn't catch that. Felt normal to me. But that streak isn't necessary at all...just distracting. Its the little details that I wanted critiques to point out so that I try and avoid making the same mistakes.
Far as reasons for taking this shot...a message that I am trying to tell..well, you said it perfectly, the reason why I took this photo is " because it is a unique picture, a perspective not usually seen with eyes". Thats it.
lol.
I do take part in some photo competitions now and then. And this is, in no means, my best shot taken. however it is one of the 5 best shots of that particular shoot
... horrible day.
Uhhh...actually a Good picture is one that, if you blow up large, hang outside in public, and someone who is say...rushing to work, passes by the picture, moves past it, stops, steps back to look at it...THATS a good picture.
This is a mere...glance and dismiss type
Being a multimedia design student, everything revolves around art. But photography is supposed to be taken seriously too.
I know of people who think that just because a photograph is in focus and correctly exposed, it is a good photograph. That is hardly the criteria for a good picture.
This isn't by any means a "good" picture. Its kept for critique so that people can suggest what I can do to make it "good".
So if we brush past the formalities and get to the point as to why this thread was started in the first place...any suggestions on how to improve this pic?
puraime,
shallower dof, got it. Will try shooting with a macro once too, may look good.
tkbonz,
BnW pic? really? never thought about it...will test it out in photoshop, see how it looks...thanks for the tip