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Reviewing cotton candy images of Steve Simon

Reviewing cotton candy images of Steve Simon

From the course: Photo Critique of the Week

Reviewing cotton candy images of Steve Simon

- I think sometimes perfection in photography can be overrated. Hi, I'm Steve Simon, The Passionate Photographer and welcome to another edition of Critique of the Week. This week I have these four pictures out and which one I ultimately will select, and why. So you at home can take a look at the images and sort of form your own opinion. Cotton candy I was attracted to and for obvious reasons. The color, it just looked interesting in the environment there. You can see in the picture on the top left it's kind of a street scene. The focus is on the candy itself. But you can see even though these players are out of focus so you get a sense of place and what's going on around. I like this image in terms of the distribution of the chess pieces as I sometimes call the people that are frozen in time in the image. And I think it works. This picture here is high lit against the architecture of place, and I like it for this reason back lit against the sky. This one here, it's a busy street…

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