Tuesday, March 18
Nancy Ori Photo Critique
Last September, photographer Nancy Ori shared invaluable insights on elevating garden and landscape photography with our club. Her presentation encouraged us to recognize the beauty around us and capture it in our unique personal style while carefully considering composition, lighting, and key details. She emphasized the importance of controlling as many elements in the frame as possible to create stronger images.
At the end of the session, Nancy challenged us to put her tips into practice and even offered to critique our results. Now, it's time to take on that challenge! Whether by capturing new photos or revisiting past floral images with fresh eyes, apply Nancy’s techniques to refine your work. Select your best shots, experiment with new edits, and see how your improved skills bring your images to life.
Submit Your Images to Nancy
Some instructions from Nancy:
Unless you are going to buy some flowers and set them up to shoot, I imagine that most of you will be going into your libraries/archives to find some good floral images to submit.
Here is what I would recommend: Make selections from your files of all the possibilities so you can cull out the best. See what additional manipulations can be done now that you have some more experience from when you saw this image last.
Look carefully at:
1. Composition. Are there details or distracting elements that can be eliminated to make a simpler and more powerful statement? Are there things that need to be cropped or cloned out?
2. Lighting. Was it used well?
3. Focal Point. Did you use the rule of thirds to get the focal point out of the middle? Would a square crop be best if you have a single flower?
4. Contrast. It will draw the eye to it. Did that work or is it taking the viewer away from the focal point?
5. Depth of Field. Did you use this wisely?
6. What did you learn from looking at the images you submitted?
7. Do you need more post production skills to get what you want next time?
8. Do you need more equipment to shoot in the garden next time?
9. Do you need to practice with fill flash or use a diffuser for better results?
Please submit your original images before post production and your final THREE images to the dropbox link above so we can see the before and after story of your pictures.
Label your images as follows: your name.Ori-#jpg. (ex. ann lefevre.Ori-1a for the original and ann.lefevre.Ori-1b for the post-processing version).
Submissions should be received by March 11, 2025 so that Nancy can review them beforehand.
Submit Your Images to Nancy