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How to Evaluate a Photograph

How to Evaluate a Photograph. Sue Schwer Down the Shore Photography Guild. Goals of Session. Be able to evaluate your own photographs to improve as a photographer. Understand the components that are essential for a good photograph.

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How to Evaluate a Photograph

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  1. How to Evaluate a Photograph Sue Schwer Down the Shore Photography Guild

  2. Goals of Session • Be able to evaluate your own photographs to improve as a photographer. • Understand the components that are essential for a good photograph. • Through evaluation identify the areas where you need improvement and identify new learning objectives to grow as a photographer • Be able to provide constructive feedback to other photographers.

  3. Evaluation Areas • Technical • Composition • Subject/Feeling/Message

  4. Technical • Exposure • Are there areas of underexposure or overexposure? • Do they distract attention away from your subject • Why do you think they occurred? • What can you do to fix it? • What can you do differently in the future to prevent the problem.

  5. Technical • Focus • Is the main subject in focus? • Is it a sharp or soft focus? • Does the type of focus work for the photo? • Depth of Field (DOF) • Is DOF shallow or deep? • Does DOF work in this shot to bring attention to the subject?

  6. Technical • Lighting / White Balance • Is the lighting soft or harsh? • Does the type of lighting enhance or detract from the things in the photo? • Is the white balance set correctly? • Is there a cast to the photo (yellowish, orangish, greenish)?

  7. Compostion • Centered vs. "Rule of Thirds". • Is the main subject in the center of the frame? • Is it on a third? Somewhere else? • Does the chosen composition work, or would you have done something differently? • Fore, Middle, and Backgrounds • (Most applicable to landscape photos) Does the photo contain all three? If not, do you think it would be better if it did?  • Cropping/Framing • Is there wasted empty space in the photo? • Should the crop have been tighter? • Is it cropped so tightly that important parts of the photo have been cutoff? 

  8. Composition • Color / Tonal Range. • What type of colors do you see? • Did the photographer use a lot of primary colors? Secondary? Complementary? • Are the colors too vivid? Not vivid enough? • If you are looking at a B&W photo, is there a true black, true white, with a large tonal range in between, or is the photo too "gray"?  • Diagonals, S-Curves, etc. • Did the photographer make use of any visually-interesting elements, such as diagonal lines or S-curves?  • Leading lines. • Do the lines and overall composition make you want to look deeper into the photo? Is your eye drawn into the photo, or out of it? 

  9. Composition • Dark vs. Light areas. • Are there too many bright areas? • Too many dark areas?  • Balance. • Is the photo "balanced"? • Would it be better if there were other objects or other light/dark areas in the frame to improve the balance? • If the photo is off balance, is there a reason for it? 

  10. Subject / Feeling / Message • How does the photo make you feel? • What mood do you see in the photo?  • Do you think this mood is what the photographer intended?  • Does it make you happy? Sad? Angry? • Did the photographer succeed in telling his/her story with the photograph? Why or why not? • Do you like the photo? And, more importantly, say WHY you like the photo, or why you don't. • Would you hang this photo on your wall? Why or why not? 

  11. Example Reviews • http://www.gurushots.com/photo-critique/naturephotography/3-2-1-take-off • http://www.gurushots.com/photo-critique/stilllifephotography/still-standing

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