May 31, 2010 by Craig

In The Critique Room

Tweet The photo above was recently sent to me by a reader who requested a critique. He mentioned that when he originally shot it, he processed it with a black and white conversion. He sent me the RAW file, so let’s take a close look at this photo. By the way, the opening image is [...]

May 13, 2010 by Craig

Self Critique and Editing

Tweet I’ve previously talked about the need for honest critique and feedback. The hardest critique of all is the self-critique, but if you can get a good handle on it, your photography will come along in leaps and bounds. The best photographers tend to be the best editors (in the selecting sense not necessarily the [...]

April 9, 2010 by Craig

Critique. Giving and Getting

Tweet One of the dangers of the modern, online photo sharing phenomena is that people love to say “wow” when they see an image they like, but they’re a lot more hesitant to comment on a photo that is not grabbing their attention. Witness the many Flickr groups that gives out endless “awards” but the [...]