Commons:Photography critiques/January 2022

Are my photos good enough?

Hi, I have a lot of photos that I upload to Commons, I always upload my best. Are they good enough to be: Quality, Valued or Featured?

Should I propose them to those categories?

All my photos (some of them are uploaded from flicker by other users) are in Category:Jakub T. Jankiewicz.

Those are my recently uploaded images:

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Jakub T. Jankiewicz (talk) 18:32, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Jakub T. Jankiewicz Valued images aren't about absolute quality but only relative quality. So your images will be approved as valued if they are the best depiction of the subject currently available on Commons. I think some of these have potential as quality images as well, but I don't usually judge there. Buidhe (talk) 07:41, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

To add my photos in categories Category:Mass grave in Bór, Category:Mass grave in Brzask, Category:Korona Kielce (shopping mall), Category:Domek Tkaczki, Category:Reenactment in Malbork are better than the others or the only images in the category. Jakub T. Jankiewicz (talk) 09:20, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

@Jcubic: My point of view:

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  Not very sharp, DoF is very shallow so most of the photo is blurry, I'd do it with higher F so it's nicely sharp, I don't see the reason for shallow DoF
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  Strong vignetting effect has been applied which makes the photo looks unnatural to me. Nice composition though - I'd straighten the verticals and perhaps come just before sunrise to get some nice colors there. I see FP potential of the object if you work on the composition and take the picture under better light conditions
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  Interesting but distorted and the main object is in the shade. But again, nice composition

Regards, --Podzemnik (talk) 22:37, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

@Podzemnik: those were just my last uploads, there are better photos I've taken (and uploaded to Commons), like those in categories I've linked. Jakub T. Jankiewicz (talk) 07:50, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

@Jcubic: You can't expect other users to browse all your uploads. I'd recommend to chose a few photos that you think represent your work the best and ask others for a review here. Kind regards, --Podzemnik (talk) 23:19, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

@Podzemnik:

I can pick those:

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  This image won 4th place in Polish photo contest
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  Image of the frontman of the Polish folk band Percival, 3 of my other photos of the band are at Wikipedia, I think that my photos are best in the category Category:Percival (band)
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  Książ Castle in Wałbrzych, Poland

I have also a lot of photos from Reenactments in Wolin (I was 3 times there are 3 categories) and Malbork it's hard to pick the best. Jakub T. Jankiewicz (talk) 20:18, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

@Jcubic:

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  Underexposed to me, the graveyard is not fully sharp, vignetting has been applied (?), black is likely clipping
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  Nice QI. Sharp but the focus is not on the eyes and the main thing I see here is that the instrument is cropped. I'd also crop it a wee bit from the top and get rid of the distracting brown bench side on the left bottom. Maybe VI
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  Underexposed, possibly overprocessed (or maybe you used a polarised filter? The sky look tweaked). The top crop is quite tight, the verticals are not straight (though perhaps acceptable as you were very close to the building), there are some people in it, the light is not very good as there is a big shadow on the building

Please take my reviews easy, I was mostly reviewing the photos for FP :) Regards, --Podzemnik (talk) 08:10, 5 July 2021 (UTC)