Originally posted by christophleipzig I just have as small critic.
I think, the pictures are technically speaking really impressive. But the last 6 images leave a strange impression to me. Somehow cause of the very bokeh-ed backgrounds and the very short aperture-time the children seem to me very frozen and somehow unnatural.
I think it is very nice, to point out persons in portraits - but here there are just disconnected somehow and stand alone and frozen in a blurred space. That irritates me.
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Interesting, thanks for the feedback. You mean you think a smaller aperture, less blurred background, subjects maybe tied to the environment more would have been better?
I usually do like to tie in the environment a bit, however there the background had a part of garage, van, some random objects... I thought dissolving the background with wide-open shots actually worked better, since the subjects wouldn't have been served by the less-than-interesting background. And they float a bit like that, in their own joyful world... I don't know, works for me.
Below are examples of the type of shot where I think the background belongs as part of the shot, fully:
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And here's a telephoto shot where I think the background, while blurred, plays a big role too - because it adds to the shot, not distracts (no aesthetically-banal objects like minivans in other words
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