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Welcome to the Photography critiques!
Would you like a second opinion before nominating a photograph of yours as a Quality Image, Valued Image or Featured Picture candidate, can't decide which of your images to enter into one of the Photo Challenges? Or do you have specific questions about how to improve your photography or just would like some general feedback?
This is the right page to gather other people's opinions!
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Opinion for potential featured picture candidate
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I have always been interested in Minoru Yamasaki and his firm's designs, especially with their involvement in architecture throughout Michigan. On a recent trip to Eastern Michigan, I captured this image with my drone. Do you believe that this is worthy of being a Featured Picture candidate for Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Exteriors#United States? Any suggestions? Thank you! WMrapids (talk) 06:04, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
- It's a nice photo, WMrapids. Pleasing symmetry, pretty good light, etc. The standard for architecture is quite high at FPC, so I think the level of detail might not be enough for some folks, but you won't know unless you give it a shot. Worst thing that happens is it doesn't pass and you get some feedback explaining why. You may also want to take a pass to try to remove flecks of chromatic aberration; it's not severe, but maybe worth checking (look for flashes of purple in areas where very light meets very dark). — Rhododendrites talk | 19:29, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
- I'll take a look at the chromatic aberration. Thank you for taking a look! WMrapids (talk) 22:12, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
But the crow flew away
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Info: A sullen Monsoon afternoon near my workstation. A crow had perched up outside the window to seek shelter from the rain. By the time I could click a picture, it had flown away, and I was left with this poignant frame.
Notes: I'm an absolute novice. Picture is unedited. The brown border was added when I uploaded it to Discord to share with some friends. Honestly, I don't even know what kind of suggestions I'm looking for here. Perhaps just share your comments? Kingsacrificer (talk) 10:35, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
- @Kingsacrificer photo has very low resolution, angle of view looks random, it's hard to say what is the main topic of this photo: windows? shadows? could it possibly be considered artistic photography? Gower (talk) 16:29, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
Opinion on flower image
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I have come here for advice since I have failed numerous Featured picture candidates before. I have taken a new image on a flower (Celosia argentea) in the Philippines and I wanted to receive critiques here before I nominate it for featured picture. Any replies will be appreciated. Thank you! TheNuggeteer (talk) 13:45, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
- @TheNuggeteer composition is good, but image quality could be better, I can see artifacts as if they were over-compressed in the background; I would crop it with more bottom if possible. Gower (talk) 16:21, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
Nighttime photos of astronomy outreach
[edit]I sometimes take my telescope out to show people the moon, planets, and other things in the night sky, and I also tried out photographing the people who look through it.
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I'm much more of an astrophotographer than a terrestrial photographer, but I'd be interested to receive feedback on these photos I took. I know they all have blurred people walking in the background, which is distracting, but I also like the contrast of motion vs. the stillness of the observer. Brainandforce (talk) 08:53, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
- You're right, the blurred people is a little distracting. The lighting could be a little better too? I know the first image is pretty bright in the background. The lighting of the other two photos looks better. WMrapids (talk) 06:23, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
- So I took these pictures with a camera that isn't mine (my campus library has Canon EOS R6s available for loan), and I didn't realize that I could probably bump up the exposure further with its in-body image stabilization.
- Or, perhaps, I could have used that tripod in the background instead of using it as a makeshift coathanger... —brainandforce [yap] 08:24, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
Another potential featured candidate
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Hello! La Grande Vitesse is one of the main symbols of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Given my interest on the topic, I would like to nominate this image for Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Sculptures#Sculptures outdoors. Please provide some feedback! Thank you! WMrapids (talk) 06:20, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
- @WMrapids: please check whether this sculpture has a copyright notice somewhere per Commons:Public art and copyrights in the US#Before 1978. There's a chance that it's not in the PD, and if that's the case, the photo could be a possible copyvio (no COM:FOP US). Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 18:51, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Grand-Duc: This file was already reviewed by an admin in a deletion proposal and it was kept. Other than that, any other critiques? WMrapids (talk) 03:45, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info! I didn't check its talk page, so I missed the {{Kept}} mention. A critique... Well, first of all, the color balancing in pleasing to my eyes, as the composition is. Nitpicking a bit: the crop feels a tad too tight at the bottom, it would have given a more rounded-up impression with a slight strip of foreground more as breathing room. On a zoomable lens, I'd have said, one to three millimeters less focal length would have done the trick, and as you used a prime: maybe half a meter backwards, keeping the top of the image where it is currently? Additional nitpicking: the bottom left feels quite dark. A (really) slight brightening may be advisable, perhaps?
- Personally, I'm really fond of a highpass sharpening, especially for building images. It may also be advantageous here (dunno if Lightroom supports it, though. You'd have to duplicate the image layer, remove all colors / desaturate [Ctrl + Shift + U], optionally switch to "smart layer", select highpass filtering [per experience, I'd say with a value between 2,3 and 3,6 px], blend the layers with "soft light - at least in Photoshop proper [caveat: I'm not sure about the English terms, I'm using a German software edition and translated them]). Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 17:51, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Grand-Duc: This file was already reviewed by an admin in a deletion proposal and it was kept. Other than that, any other critiques? WMrapids (talk) 03:45, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
