In-Class Photo Critique

#1 My eye is caught by the wide, open mouth of the bear and the salmon almost but not quite getting into the bear's mouth. Will he catch it or miss it? The water is splashed all around him, caught in time, in slow motion.

#2 It looks like the picture of the water was taken with a long exposure. The colors of the leaves are bright and vibrant. The orange patch of leaves still left on a hanging branch in the left corner draw my eye away from the yellow a little bit. If there were any red leaves in the picture, this would attract the eye even more.

#3 This water looks like the exposure was long as well. The rocks almost look too round and too smooth for rocks. A few of them even look to be floating or like they weren't originally in the picture to begin with. I like the scale of cool colors: whites, blacks, greys, and blues.

#4 This photograph has a mystical feel to it. The smoke or the wisps of clouds rising up around the mountain peaks creates the illusion of a layering of more peaks, creating shadows almost. The center between the two peaks, draws in my eye because amongst the clouds, the sky turned from black to blue.

#5 In this photo, my eyes go directly to the aqua, blue geyser hole outlined in a bright yellow-orange ring. My eyes keep wanting to look down and down further still. Where does it lead? The patch of snow in the lower right-hand side helps for your eyes to move up the picture plain and then leads you left and then right, all the way along, sweeping you to the background and up to the sky.

#6 The red in the little bird's face helps for him to pop and stand out. The blurred background also helps for you eyes to stay on him and not wander on to what is behind him. His bright feathers definitely make him easy to spot and easy to focus on.

#7 This picture does not look real to me. The salmon and the head of the bear look extremely altered. The colors of the water and the rocks are captured nicely, along with the pop of color from the bright green moss.

#8 The red foreground attracts the eye and carries you up to the green mid-ground and then up to the yellow, orange of the mountainous background. The moose almost seems missed among all of the colors of the scene.

#9 This bird looks like he just burst up from the surface of the water and exploded up and out with a fish and is ready to come at you whether you get out of his way or not. The blurred green background is a nice balance between his brown colors and the white, blue of the water.

 #10 The polar bear in the foreground seems like he just came up from the icy cold water and was a bit surprised to see someone with a camera, but content with his picture being taken. Looking up from his head, leads the eye back to the polar bear sitting on the ice in the background.