Photo Critique: Animals, Landscapes and Portraits

For this, our first mega member’s photo critique, Karl viewed more than 250 of our members’ pictures, giving feedback on each and every one.

During this marathon show, Karl explored the visual and emotive response to an image, explained the importance of a clear narrative and showed the powerful influence of composition, color and light.

Offering his thoughts on each image, Karl also shared possible improvements that could be made to an image and demonstrated a number of useful post-production techniques that could be used to enhance a picture.

If you enjoy this, check out Photo Critique: Products 1.

Questions? Please post them in the comments section below.

Comments

  1. DavidMorgan

    Hi Karl and team,

    I think the format works well, although a bit of a marathon for you!

    As a learner, what I found good was that repeated themes came to the fore – particularly about the brightest part of an image, separation of the subject, the narrative etc. Hearing and seeing it pointed out repeatedly helped it sink in properly. If ever I get those things wrong in the future then I need shooting, literally.

    It was also inspiring to see so many good images, and the way you were able to make subtle improvements.

    You don’t see the comments sent in with the images, so for the future I’ll make sure that the image speaks for itself. Learning point No.58d ……..

    Regards,

    Dave

  2. Thanks so much for the critique Karl! I knew you were gonna say it had to much sepia tone hahaa. I get crazy with the saturation sometimes. Thanks for the honesty and yes the shot was 100% real. No photoshop. Glad you were able to determine that just by looking at it. It was an amazing morning I will never forget standing at the foot of the river with the Eiffel Tower in the distance. Cheers!

  3. Thank you for your comments I have learnt a lot not just for my own image but with all the others as well.

  5. Karl, wasn’t able to view the review live, but I’m honored that you like the image. Thanks so much for the feedback on the dress and how to enhance the overall image. Learning a lot from your education tracks and passion for excellence. Best, Kerry

  6. Thanks for reviewing my picture Karl…this is a nice thing you dedicating your precious time for the new comers. looking forward for more and more sessions like this….Great show KT….

  7. Steve Craig I did reduce the high light on the nose of my image. The cap on the subject pulled back unequally which made one eye
    open more than the other. Thanks for the critique, the lighting setup is from Karl’s portrait lighting tutorial. I had just got my lights set and my son had just stopped by and I just sat him down and made 3 to 4 images and then he had to go.

  8. ksporry

    Hey Karl, thanks for the tremendous you and the team are putting into this mega review. I’m well impressed!

    Also thank you for the review of my underwater image. Actually it hit me like an epiphany! I realised that indeed it didn’t clearly show what the subject really was, and that this is a large part of what the photo should convey. I’ll make sure to pay more attention to that next time I’m photographing wrecks!

    1. Hi Andy, The critique was for one image per member (to ensure that we could be fair and critique one of every members images). You had submitted 3 images of which we chose our favorite which was the product shot to be critiqued, this will be critiqued today at 2pm BST. We did the same for all members that submitted more than one image.

      1. thank you Emma for the response, i though it was just one round but i noticed a 2nd part for next day, i just got the critique and i am very pleased, again, thank you so much…..Chao….

  14. Thank you Karl for feedback on my image, much appreciated also learnt a lot from the other image reviews.

  15. Thank you for the great feedback about my image Karl and thank you for taking the time to review all these great images.

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