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    Effective Photograph Critique Criteria?

    Do you have a list of photo critique criteria? If so, would you please share what is effective for you?

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    Re: Effective Photograph Critique Criteria?

    Structure, light and the idea.

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    Re: Effective Photograph Critique Criteria?

    Composition, light, mood, expression, and location, location, location!

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    Re: Effective Photograph Critique Criteria?

    I thought Barrett, Criticizing Photographs was pretty good. I read the earlier edition.

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    Re: Effective Photograph Critique Criteria?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Michael View Post
    I thought Barrett, Criticizing Photographs was pretty good. I read the earlier edition.
    I remember this one from my concept class!

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    Re: Effective Photograph Critique Criteria?

    Random order, incomplete:

    --Has this been done before?
    --If done before, is this one better?
    --Is it visually interesting? (as opposed to technically interesting, or intellectually interesting)
    --Does it work as a photograph? (Or do you need a text panel, background information? Should it have been a painting or a short story or a protest chant?)
    --Does it stick in your mind, days later, coming again to you when you are driving, thinking of other issues, always hovering there in the background?
    --Damn the photographer do you wish you had done it first?
    --Could it be done better?
    --Did they really nail it? (Did they miss, or take the easy way, or pander, or pose?)
    --Do you laugh out loud without meaning to when you see it?
    --Do you go back to see it again before you leave? Do you go back days later to see it again?
    --Do you spent more than five minutes with it?
    --Does the photo know what it is about--or is it just pretending?
    --Does its attraction come from familiarity?
    --It is true? Is it honest?

    --Darin

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