This week we went outside to take pictures of nature. Even though the weather was cold , it HAD been warm in the previous few days, so we wanted to capture what Spring is like in Holy Trinity's school grounds.
We split into 4 groups this week and we went to different places around school to look for signs of Spring. Below are some of the pictures we took. please feel free to comment on what you think...
We've made a critique on each of the pictures we chose. Mrs Hollows says she'd like to frame some of them for her house!!
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| We liked the way the photo showed a mixture of town and country. |
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| This picture was chosen because it showed different stages of growth. |
This picture showed some pretty flowers, but we didn't realise that it was blurry until it was on the big screen. however we still liked the foliage it showed.
The daisy in this picture was one of many shots we took, but we felt that the angle it was taken at showed it off well.
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| Loved this rhubarb- it looked like a jungle, as the photographer got right down into it. |
This picture showed some pretty flowers, but we didn't realise that it was blurry until it was on the big screen. however we still liked the foliage it showed.
CRITIQUE: PART 1
ReplyDeleteWow, these photos are fantastic! You've captured signs of spring and you have experimented with different angles, getting up close.
I will now try and critique them.
1. Pink Flowers
I agree with your comment about the mix of town and country, because we can see a little glimpse of the street and van through the railings. The straight lines and colours of the walls and the railings contrast with the curves lines and natural colours of the grass, flowers and leaves.
The delicate pink flowers are spread across the middle of the image. There is no empty space in the frame. Although the flowers are small and delicate, the way that you have arranged the picture makes them look bigger and more important than the van in the background.
I can't think of anything I would change except that maybe we could experiment with cropping the photo to see if that would make it even more effective.
Well done!
2. Dandelions
I love the way the flowers here are bursting out of the picture towards us. I can tell that you must have got very close to them to take this picture.
The main flowers are in the centre of the picture, with the smaller ones around them. I like the fact that we can see unopened dandelions hiding in the green, waiting to come out. This is a very energetic picture.
Maybe you could have got even closer. But I think that we could crop this photo so that there is no empty space.
Well done!
CRITIQUE: PART 2
ReplyDelete3. Blue flowers
I don't know what these flowers are called. Do you? They are very pretty and contrast with the foliage behind. There is a lot to look at here - not just the flowers, but the detail of the patterns on the leaves too, and I like the angle you have chosen - looking straight down.
You have already noticed that the photo is a bit blurry. I wonder why this has happened. Perhaps it is because the camera wobbled when you took the picture. Did you press the macro button? Did you only take one version of this picture?
Perhaps it might have worked better if the flowers were more in the middle of the frame and not so much on a diagonal. This could be done my cropping and rotating the image, which I will show you next time I see you.
But of course, there is no way of fixing the fact that it is out of focus, which is a shame. As you say, you didn't notice this until you saw it on the big screen. There is a way of checking this on the camera, which I will show you.
4. Daisy
Great picture. You mention that this is one of many that you took. That's the way to do it! The angle here is really effective - you are showing us a rabbit's view of a daisy.
You have framed the daisy so that it is right in the middle and you have obviously got really close up. The effect is that the flower looks like it is reaching out towards us. I love the detail of the little raindrops on the petals. You wouldn't have got that if you had taken the picture the day before when it was dry and sunny! Sometimes the rain is a good thing and of course flowers need water to grow. So the raindrops add to the picture.
My only suggestions are: could you have got even closer and maybe turned the camera around (into portrait)? There is a bit of empty space around it. Also, I wonder what it would look like if you had put the camera underneath so that it was looking up at the petals from below - like an ant's view?
Well done for this!
5. Rhubarb
I'm not sure if I like eating rhubarb, but I do like this photo! Like you say, it looks like a jungle down there. The red stalks are the most interesting bit of the plant and you have given us an unusual point of view of them.
The stalks really fill the frame. It almost looks like they might move at any second, like a tangled nest of snakes! The bright pinky red colour contrasts with the green of the leaves and background. (Did you know that green and red are opposite each other on the colour wheel?)
I feel like I want to be able to see the stalks coming out of the ground, but this is just outside the edge of the picture. If the camera was just tilted down slightly, we could have seen that - and there is a bit of empty space at the top too, which would be cut off.
The second thing is that the person in the background (is that you Mrs Hollows...?!) is a little bit distracting. Look out for this next time and either wait until the person moves or be bossy and ask them to move!
Well done, though. This is a really striking picture!
Overall, I think you have done a fantastic job this week. These pictures will make people smile - they are so fresh and... springlike!
Perhaps we should think about doing some more photography outside...
See you all soon,
Graham