THIS photo is amazing. Mainly because I love cats, but yeah. No that's not the only reason, I do love the way the focus is captured. But I think an issue with this photo too is the slight loss of focus on the focal. I like the displacement of the focal too, so that it's not in the center, but I think it would look a little better pushed a little further to the left, obeying the rule of thirds more closely.
This photo does that better. But I enjoyed looking at them, and you have some insanely photogenic friends (and cats) *o*
Your icons and tags are lovely, but some are really quite plain, and could do with a little better utilisation of the empty space, and others lack depth and/or focus.
Starting with
this one, I do think that the depth here is subtle yet capturing, and I consider this your strongest piece. Yet there are improvements to be had. For a start the focus could be stronger, with a little more lighting adjustment you could really hammer home the focus, and the flow could be better, but it is there. I also think that the text in this case doesn't really add to the piece but takes away from it. The font too is a little unreadable and as such I think the piece would look better without it.
This piece is a bit plain and lacks depth and flow, but I do like the way the focus being darker draws your attention. The background being white-washed as such works out to draw your attention to the darker focus, so good job there, that's a really nice effect.
This is a really nice image, but as a tag it's a bit chaotic. There's so much brightness and so many focals I don't know what to focus on, and the effects in the image are unfortunately lost. There is also a lack of depth rendering the image quite flat. For a picture with such a dramatic change in distance between foreground, focus and background a lot of blurring could be used to really draw out that distance. What really flattens the image for me is the effect in the bottom right-hand corner.
Empty space. Whilst there are pieces that work like this, this isn't one of them. Right now it looks half finished, which is a shame because your lighting and blurring have made quite a good bit of depth here. I would suggest to you to go back and add to this piece if you have time at some point, I'd like to see it built upon.
Lastly
this piece I just want to say is an example of text really obscuring the piece overall.
Text is extremely difficult, and I've learnt that too over the years, and often I spend a while trying to fit text onto my pieces, before actually giving up and leaving it without. But I would definitely suggest choosing more subtle fonts with less flair to them, because those are much harder to work with. I love your icons, you've certainly got those down to a 'T' and your photography is well on its way to looking amazing. It already looks great (with the help of many a photogenic person or animal). Loving the gallery, it's about time you starting another one here Anna!
