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skally · **critiques -** 06-06-2009, 07:02 PM

Anybody want to critique my flickr gallery for hard cash? I need critical feedback not compliments.

skally · **critiques 2 -** 06-06-2009, 07:10 PM

You might want to look before you leap even if the money is good: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuckskallerud/

Imagebuffet · 06-06-2009, 07:18 PM

That sounds like an odd request, but I'm wondering if you mean every image and what qualifications you need?

skally · 06-07-2009, 07:01 AM

It was a spur of the moment thought. There are 105 images.

bondarnes · 06-07-2009, 09:31 AM

I perused your gallery and while you seem to be on the right track, I see that you are still learning and trying everything you see. You have a good eye and see and record things most people wouldn't even notice. I think you overdo some of the techniques like the glow.

Overall your exposures seem to be good and your composition isn't bad. I really liked some of the last few images with the roses and the jug. It reminds me of a book that True Redd gave me several years ago. It is a study of roses.

Please understand that I come from a PPA print competition background and not gallery salons. If there is a particular image you want critiqued let me know, but I don't have time for a hundred critiques.

skally · 06-07-2009, 07:44 PM

Thanks for your perceptive comments. I'm fairly new to this and you rightly noticed that I am trying something of everything. To tell the truth I probably don't even know what a critique is. Let me think about it and get back to you. Thanks again for your time and attention.

J Eddington · 06-07-2009, 08:17 PM

You have a unique perspective. That always makes a photo more interesting.
Here is a link to an article about critiques. http://photocritic.org/doing-a-photo-critique/ It lists things that I try to think about when giving a critique to other TPF members.

skally · 08:41 AM

Thanks very much for the website. I have been looking for something like that and for some reason it never came up. Needless to say I had not fully understood what a critique is.

skally added 31 Minutes and 4 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

What I orginally had in mind was a couple of quick critical sentences on each photo in the comments section of my flickr site. I figured that was about 1-2 hours of work and would be worth $100. It might be worth that to a starving grad student in design school at least. Obviously 'critique' means something else. I am learning by stumbling.