Photo Critique: Products 1
In this members’ image critique, Karl focusses on the fundamentals of product photography, the importance of light, composition and colour. Pointing out the strengths and possible improvements for each image, he also demonstrates a number of useful post-production techniques that could be used to enhance an image.
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Comments
Thanks for your kind advice Karl!!!! Love your work mate!!!
Thanks Karl for the critique. The details you pointed out will be taken care. Thanks a lot …
Hi Karl, thanks for the critique, glad you liked the shot. I’ll definitely be taking your comments on board 🙂
Thanks Gavin.
Thx Karl for the review….. so appreciated, i will retake the picture and summit it again for the next photo critique
This has been the first time to attend a critique session. Unfortunately I could only attend the first one live due to work, I’ll watch the second one during the rest of the weekend. What I’ve seen and heard never gave me the impression Karl said something to harm or demotivate the photographer, instead to me his intention was clearly the opposite – helping the photographer to learn ind improve.
Of course I was waiting impatiently for the review of my own picture, I couldn’t even leave the computer for a single moment. I was so interested and fascinated by all the pictures and Karl’s critique and comments, a lot of things in the picture I only realised due to Karl.
So from my point of view this session was extremely interesting and helpful – I learned a ton. And even if I probably won’t remember all the things Karl mentioned when I go out next time, I will learn step by step. To sum it up – a massive thanks to Karl and the team!!!
Cheers, Ralf
Thank you Ralf.
Karl, one of the most important things I learnt from the critique shows, was that it took you over one thousand two hundred clicks of the shutter to capture what it was you were looking for!
That puts truth to the old adage, “Patience is a virtue.”
I hope you could do critique shows, maybe say bi-monthly, to see how we students are progressing.
From a subscriber for life, or till the money runs out.
Thank you Doug for your feedback we will certainly look at increasing the number of critique shows.
Thanks for advising me what I did wrong and how to improve
to make a better photo.
Thank you Andrej.
Karl, Thanks for the constructive critique of my image. I did the suggested tweaks and agree that it is better. Looking forward to the next one. Cheers.
Thanks Mark glad you enjoyed the show.
A mammoth undertaking, Karl. Both parts are enormously informative. Many thanks for critiquing my image in Part 1 (TT cyclist). I was surprised but delighted that you referenced it in Part 2! I have been wary of panning, but am now encouraged and resolved to try more shots.
Cheers David.
Thank you very much for the useful critique , Sir one thing I want to know that, how to determine the right size of soft box, like it should be vertical , square rectangle for product photography.
Hi Gaurav, please watch the first 15 chapters in the ‘Portrait’ section.
Many thanks for you and you team, I realize that is a giant job to do this, so we apreciate it a lot. Please keep teaching us. Cheers!
Thank you Daniel.
Thanks for the critique Karl, I think you were spot on the critique of my shot and I agree (it was a macro shot of a Heineken bottle). Will apply what I learned in this live show in the future. Looking forward to more of this!
Thank you Ignacio.
Thank you very much Karl for your awesome feedback and for taking the time to go through so many entries! Completely agree with your critique and did my best with what I had available at the location. Will keep watching more of your product videos to see if I can pickup more tips for product photography and try again next time 🙂
Thank you very much Karl!
You asked for feedback on your critiquing. I think your views are right-on, often exposing those points that were causing me to , for some reason, not like the photo.
I feel that, after getting to know Karl and the team through all the training, the critiquing is not motivated from a jealous ego or condescending spirit, but from a conscientious desire to lift up the amateurs and pros to the next level.
Anyone disagreeing with the critiques may need to consider that a certain amount of Karl’s judgement will come from his personal taste and artistic expression and that portion needs to remain subjective. Otherwise we could just copy his work and be done. How sad.
The bigger picture is that we are all lucky to have this help.
Thank you Steve.