Suggestions and critique please.

[Tommy13]

Been shooting less than a year and trying to improve with my work please leave comments and suggestions good or bad.

 

[ronlane]

Tommy, honestly it is hard to give much critic on a small photo. But the couple of things that I see are this. First, if the bird is going to be your subject, don't put them in the middle of the photo. (See rule of thirds). and Second, you will hear a lot of negative things about the selective color. Most do not like it or think that it works only for a VERY few photos.

 

[vintagesnaps]

You might keep experimenting with your vantage point, think about how this might look if you were more to the left and we saw more of the fence, think about your background, etc. With this I might make some copies and try cropping the left side some, to help bring the viewer's attention to the bird and eliminate the black blob in the background to the left. I like the way the bird is balanced with the curve of the fence.

I don't always like selective coloring either but mostly because I think it's not necessarily easy to do well. This seems to work pretty well because the rest of the bird and fence would be fairly neutral (brown/tan/gray) if it was in color; in B&W I wonder if it would look better if the red was just a little more vibrant since B&W tends to have more contrast I think than when it's in color. (Or I wonder how it would look in sepia with the red accent color?)

 

[amolitor]

I slightly higher point of view would have emphasized the Arabesque formed by the tops of the posts, which would be potentially very nice. It is at least a classic.

Selective color, yeah. It's not bad here, though, it has a point at the rest of the scene is credibly somewhat monochrome anyways.

I'd have the robin a little off center. Unfortunately if you trim the right, you lose part of the arabesque, and if you trim the left then the bird is looking "out of" the frame, which is not preferred.

Next time: higher point of view, frame a bit more to your right, and then wait until the bird is looking in that direction.

 

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