Color Critique

I looked at Jennifer's Portraits for the critique. My favorite of her portraits was the Domino one. It was very clean and mainly black and white with well defined line formed by the shadow. The dots on the dominoes really popped out because of the fact that everything else was white, and shadows. The other Picture I really liked was the yellow umbrella. The rain droplets captured on the window reflected the yellow of the umbrella and the red of the table. The droplets were very sharp and in focus and in the foreground drawing your attention to those colors and the yellow umbrella they reflected. These warm colors were brought out even more by the cool greens and blues that were in the background. The fact that the background was a bit out of focus made the sharp droplets stand out more. She took some pictures of animals in nature such as a bird in the water and a khoi fish. The bird was white and really stood out against the dark background. The yellow in its beak also stood out and the bird had a nice s shape with its neck. The khoi fish picture had beautiful highlights and shadows, especially with the banana's growing in the left corner, even though the khoi looked a bit faded. She also took a picture of a white brick curved wall. It looked as though it had remnants of graffiti on it because of the worn etchings in the side and the faded oranges, reds and greens spread along the wall. Toward the edge the wall fades into an almost violet color that could either be a shadow or more leftover graffiti. The wall is really in focus, and you can see all the contours and carvings along with the colors giving it great texture. Overall I think she did a wonderful job at catching color in her work