Assignment 1 Bracketing Critique

I was very pleased with myself for this project, because I not only completed it very early (shocking!!) but I also took more photos here than for any other project before. When I was printing the photos, I felt that they were very good and was quite impressed with them, until I hung the pictures up for critique. I do not know why, but when I put my photos up, compared to most the others in the class, my photos suddenly looked amateurish to me.... After looking at the others, I got the feeling suddenly that I had not improved much since last semester.

As for the reception of my photos, I did not get a much better feeling about them. Overall, a lot of my photos seemed to get the same comments. One major one was to move the frame upward and to get the subjects out of the middle of the frame. Also I was apparently too tight on the funeral home and cut off part of it. 

As for specific photos, there were a few things that did not apply to all of them.The photo for yesterday's yellow got a comment that there was a lack of good design, and the photo did not come across as being that color. The traffic cone I photographed for renegade orange was picked as the best of all my works, and the only real complaint is that part of the background was slightly overexposed. The class also seemed to like my photo for red warning, but I got a complaint that I should have left the van out of the frame. I never got the chance to point it out but I purposefully left the van in the photo because I felt it kept it from being too simple and also gave a greater sense of warning because the van had to stop for the train. The last important point about one of my pictures is praise for my idea of echo green, that echo reminded me of services that are held to remember people who have passed.