New Joiners - People #470

Thank you for submitting this photo to this contest, ' Surfer Girl ' is a really interesting entry, especially taken by the precision of symmetry within your framing. There is great layering here of motion blur with the waves, which further adds to your theme of the landscape portrait. Great colour tones too!

I love the cinematic value this landscape shows, heavy smoke and clouds featured with the stance of a passer-by's silhouette fits really well in this image. I’d suggest editing the contrast of the road slightly darker and the smoke brighter to balance this all out. Boosting your clarity will help too. Well done!

Congratulations! This landscape portrait immediately caught my eye. You have a very strong narrative, you have portrayed here, and it shows well visually and conceptually. This image is framed with a sense of movement and layers, which adds depth to your narrative. This could make a strong photo series about absence, see the work by Zed Nelson and his use of framing within his portraits. Well done!

Congratulations! This is an excellent entry, a great capture in a social documentary context. I suggest shooting again in a similar approach, however with a less tight frame around your subjects. Allowing negative space around a group photo enhances your narrative. This will also create depth with the detail you have here.

I highly commend your high production use with this image set up. The studio lights and professional dancer has amplified the creativity here. Well done, it’s very theatrical and could be experimented further in a video format, I suggest collaborating with a dance team and feature them in a video in this very style!

Thank you for submitting this photo to this contest, great subject captured and colour tones within the landscape and striking sunlight. If you're interested to pursuing portraits like this in a future photoshoot, position your model within the full frame, as the feet having less space looses the impact. However, practise different angles!

I commend your high production use for the result of this image, studio lights, and set design to amplify your approach to self portraiture. Well done, it’s very theatrical and could be experimented further in an editorial submission, I suggest continuing with this as a series and send to an art zine!

Never to young to ponder - The title says it all! Well done on this brilliant entry. Your framing is excellent, as I could imagine there would be many different approaches to perspective here. I wish there were production notes to read, but from the amount of detail involved, I can see you chose a great aperture.

Thank you for submitting this photo to this contest, great layering captured and grey tones with the shadows. If you're interested to pursuing photos like this in a future photoshoot, experiment using a ISO of 400. You'll gain great results like this and have fewer limitations on grain and quality in your raw file.

I want to highly credit this landscape for its cinematic efforts ( Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock also ), there are so many visual references to office lifestyle and architectural photography. It would be interesting to capture this as a series throughout the working day in similar positions. Also experiment with colour grading in post!

"i can't hear you" - This is a great capture and would certainly call this a documentary style image, especially with the various narratives that are noted here with your subjects. It's busy and well framed, I suggest editing your contrast levels to bring more depth to the landscape. Good job!

This portrait has so many theatrical references with lighting, styling and pose. The eye contact here is powerful, and the grey colour use for a backdrop was an excellent choice. I’m certain it draws any viewer in to it. I commend you on the framing of your portrait, it suits the pose by your model.

This is a sweet portrait and interesting framing, with the layering of the foliage. You've captured a moment which feels intimate, and the hand pose adds an extra detail not many would pick up. I'd suggest editing out the grass blade in the background to bring more attention to the subject.

I'm always looking for alternative approaches to street and portrait photography, and you have delivered that with this entry. A wide frame offers more to the narrative here, especially with your subject's conversation and the activity around the car too is a clear motive. I suggest shooting this on 35 mm film for added grain and texture.

Sunday Morning - Really lovely portrait that focuses on both stillness and movement. You’ve captured your subject at a good angle and excellent documentation of the sunlight highlighting the piano keys. For a future shoot, I would propose shooting this style on with a wider frame, the photo would be incredible.