Question tagged "critique".
Title in following format: Critique (YYYY.MM): [Title/Question]
Attempt to make [Title/Question] component as unique and descriptive as possible.
Perhaps can include category of photo, like Macro or Portrait. Would need a list of acceptable categories.
Description should include the following:
Title of Photo (optional)
Description – situation, background, setting.
Objective or Challenges – What photographer wanted to achieve. Photographic challenges.
Equipment – Specific camera, lens, and other equipment used.
Settings
- Mode (manual/auto), focal length, aperture, shutter speed.
- Color profile, highlight, shadow, contrast, white balance, etc.
Post Processing – software and procedures used.
Question or Request – Specific question to direct responses.
Other relevant details.
Photo – Should be inlined at end of post. Submission implicitly licenses photo as CC-BY-SA. Limit one photo, except for a related series. (See details below.) Before and after post processing of a photo counts as a single photo.
Critique of a single photo.
The limit of photos that will be critiqued is one. Additional images may be shown to show the development of the photo, such as before and after post processing.
Photos should be submitted for critique only once. It is acceptable to discuss multiple questions/objectives related to the photo. It is also fine for responses to identify problems or improvements not previously noticed.
Photographers are requested to refrain from submitting overly similar photos for critique.
Critique of a Related Series, as suggested by AJ Henderson. The
The limit of photos for a series is ___. Photos must be related to each other. They must share the same the description and objective. The petitioner of a critique of a series must request a focused critique with a specific question that applies to the entire series.
Series of apparently unrelated photos should be closed as too broad.
NSFW, boudoir – Will not be allowed initially. If critiques work out well, further discussion would be needed before expansion.
Votes – Vote as you wish, up or down. Over time, if critiques become generally accepted, downvotes for whatever reason should not be a significant problem.
Closing...
opinion basedOpinion Based – Critiques inherently request the opinions of others. As long as there is a specific question or objective to guide responses, critiques would not generally be closed for being opinion based.
Critique requests without a specific question or objective may be closed as opinion based, as with "What do you think of my photo?", or too broad, "What can I do to improve this photo?"
Recommended reading: Good Subjective, Bad Subjective
too broadToo Broad – The following should be closed as too broad.
- Critiques for a series of unrelated images.
- Requests without specific question or objective to guide the critique. May also be closed as opinion based.
other reasonsOther – We'll have to see what's submitted to determine the boundaries of acceptable critiques.
Duplicates – ???
Perhaps "general request for critique" should not be allowed because that would result in duplication of a lot of general advice.
What to do when critiques are essentially duplicates of each other, but by different photographers?
What to do when a critique is essentially the same as a normal question, or vice versa?
We already get questions that are basically critique requests with attached questions that have already been asked. These questions couldcould be tagged and retitled as critiques.
Should the same photo be disallowed from being submitted for critique multiple times with different requests/objectives?
Should a single critique contain multiple requests/objectives (Should they?)
How should very similar photos be handled? For instance, flying birdbirds and flower photos tend to look very similar.
What about photos that were obviously taken as part of a series or at the same event?
What differentiates a critique from a normal question?
This proposal outlines the question title/description of a critique, but how should responses differ between critiques and normal questions? Are there any good guidelines for how to critique a photo?
