A visit to my grandparents

[comi_xd]

I'll be more than happy if you give my your opions on this photos. Every critcis are more than welcome!

 

[sscarmack]

Too many for me....However, they are all 'nice', just need some wow factor to them.

 

[comi_xd]

Hmm, what do you mean by wow factor?

 

[Designer]

I'll be more than happy if you give my your opions on this photos. Every critcis are more than welcome!

For the best criticism, please don't mix portraiture and still life and post only one or maybe two photographs in each thread.

The corn (as we call it here) is nice, but might be better with a different crop. The lady's portraits are of mixed white balance, and what is with the white blotchiness in the second one?

Regarding sscarmack's comment, I'm going to guess that he means these are common snapshots with little or no interest for viewers not related to the subjects.

 

[The_Traveler]

Example of changes you might consider to teh people pictures.

 

[Derrel]

I see a very straight-forward, old-fashioned documentary vision here. The corn, the purple flowers, the first shot of your grandmother, and to a lesser extent, the one of your grandfather--all these photos are not flashy, not "wow factor" but are an old-fashioned type of quiet eye style of shooting photos. Minimalist, direct, simple, NOT flashy. A photographer who used to epitomize this type of photography was a man, long since dead, named August Sander. He is one of my idols.

As The_Traveler showed however, your photos would benefit from better, more skilled processing techniques, such as dodging and burning, to de-emphasize things that detract from the image, like for example the bowl in front of your grandfather; it was so bright, that **it** had become an important element in the photo, competing for attention. Making the bowl darker made the bowl less important than his face, and improved the image.