Nature Photography: Constructive Criticism

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About Nature Photography: Constructive Criticism

This group is for any photography or art concerned with nature, where subjects are minimally influenced by humans.

Examples of subjects:
Animals, plants, fungus, landscape, water, sky, space, any undisturbed parts of the natural environment.

The main purpose of this group is to:
Post some good pictures and practice constructive criticism.
Just in case you haven’t heard about it, here are some basics:

Constructive criticism:
Constructive criticism is a way to improve artistic skills, which is why people do it, not just to hunt for positive responses.

Generally, it should address an area that needs improvements, be reasoned and unpersonal for both parts. This might be difficult in photography/art since the individual response and preference to something is subjective, but there are certain things the average person might would prefer in a picture. Examples of typical issues: disturbing elements, unnecessary areas, incomplete exploitation of the motifs potential etc., and especially technical issues like depth-of-field, shutter speed, aperture, iso values, exposure, or similar.

It should never be meant as a negative personal attack, or be perceived as it. The goal is to solve problems and learn, not just to indicate, or make problems. So be sure it’s worth telling and tell how you might think the problem could be solved.

Example guidelines:
- Start by writing your impression of the complete picture
- If you like it, tell why/what makes it good.
- Refer to the part(s) that needs improvements, or could have been done
differently/better.
- Explain why you think that part is flawed.
- Explain how you think it could have been done better.

Remember it’s not supposed to be personal, and hopefully both parts can learn from it.

Put simple: indicate problems, and how to solve them.