Critics needed for this photo (black & white emergency stairs in NY)

crevestcrevest Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
edited January 23, 2014 in Other Cool Shots
Dear all,

I publish photos on 500px () and my worst perfrming photo is the one below.
It is far from the worse in my opinion. I like the lines, the bw treatment and the perspective...

Could you please tell me what you think is wrong with this one?

new-york-stairs-L.jpg

Thanks

Cédric
Everything is a matter of perspective
http://www.in-perspectives.com/

Comments

  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2014
    IMO...
    What I like; the conversion... nice and detailed/sharp.
    What I don't; angle seems too oblique and forces the building/stairs to squeeze together... crop is too tight on the top... an additional element, like a human, pet, laundry, etc. would add interest.
    HTH..Cheers!
    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2014
    There's not always "something wrong" with an image that doesn't get attention.

    I don't see anything wrong about this image, and don't have any suggestions for
    improvement. But, there's nothing about the image that grabs me enough to
    comment on it (if you hadn't asked). There's no central point of interest.

    Now if you had a tenant of the building out on the fire escape and leaning over
    the railing, or some object that was completely out-of-place like a mattress,
    or laundry hung out to dry, you'd have a focal point and an interesting background.
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
    http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/
  • crevestcrevest Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
    edited January 22, 2014
    Ok. Common comment: a point of interest. I guess that as a tourist the stairs were interesting enough but I can see how monotonous it can seem.

    Thank you.

    Cédric
    Everything is a matter of perspective
    http://www.in-perspectives.com/
  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2014
    Stairs are getting lost too little bit....maybe if you had caught first light in morning or something and they were glistening and if it caused them to pop.....or maybe another angle to highlight them more.....As mentioned above.....even if everything is ok, it doesn't have "it" to discuss "it". Cheers!
  • crevestcrevest Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
    edited January 22, 2014
    I see what you mean.
    If they stood out a bit more we would have a point of interest... Have to go back there :)
    Everything is a matter of perspective
    http://www.in-perspectives.com/
  • superduckzsuperduckz Registered Users Posts: 377 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2014
    Feedback on that site is a strange thing.

    I've experimented on 500 PX on a few occasions and made some interesting discoveries. For example, I took the exact same file and uploaded 1 month apart on different days of the week and at different times of day. The first time I did it late on a Saturday night (eastern time US) and it had very little attention and slipped away more or less unnoticed after a few days. So I deleted it and came back a month later and uploaded it again at 3:00 in the afternoon on a Monday and it blew up. Went over 95% and several hundred views.

    As a point of reference I'm really a small time user though. about 1900 affection and 60 followers. I don't spent too much time there.

    Not saying this is definitive. Just putting it out there as food for thought.

    Oh and I think it's a great shot and I've seen similar images get huge feedback for the very active users with a lot of followers.
    Accidents and Inspiration
    One of these days I'll have to figure out what my "style" is..
  • crevestcrevest Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
    edited January 23, 2014
    Thank you for your feedback Superduckz.

    I am an even "smaller time user" and I have noticed the same kind of thing regarding 500px.
    So much so that I wrote a small note about it ( http://www.in-perspectives.com/Photography-Related-Articles/500px-food-for-thoughts ) that I will try to update as time goes by.

    But the social aspect (number of followers) and the time (day and time) aspects have a limited (but important) impact.
    It is hard to break the 95 barrier without a very good picture.

    Cédric
    Everything is a matter of perspective
    http://www.in-perspectives.com/
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