DPChallenge: A Digital Photography Contest You are not logged in. (log in or register
 
Challenge Entries
Portfolio Images
Once Connected To A Water Turbine
Once Connected To A Water Turbine
Drake


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Clips, Clamps & Connectors (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D800
Lens: Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D
Location: Bellevue, Mi
Date: Mar 26, 2015
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Mar 26, 2015

From an old mill, this is connected to a water wheel, which drove a mill stone and ground grain.

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 45
Avg (all users): 5.7429
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.3750
Avg (non-participants): 5.9348
Views since voting: 417
Views during voting: 138
Votes: 70
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0


Please log in or register to add your comments!

AuthorThread
07/19/2015 06:02:37 AM
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

First impressions, your shot has impact and meets the challenge well.

We have your title to help us understand what this once was, so that helps us appreciate it more from the outset. I like your composition with the soft focus repetition of another similar structure in the background. There is part of me that would like to have altered the composition to move the front one further to the right and avoid cutting off part of the distant one but this is something I would have tried purely out of interest to compare results.

Your choice of aperture has certainly isolated the subject from the background but that background is where I'm having some problems, its shapes and areas of overexposure are distracting me to the extent that is competing with the turbines themselves. Looking at the lower half I'm thinking this is water reflections? Given your lens, again I would have liked to try with both maximum aperture to hopefully have just colours without any detail or a smaller aperture to bring out enough detail to avoid the distracting confusion I have at the moment.

The colours and detail in the front turbine are key aspects of this image and it works well but I feel is tending towards being over-processed but that is just a personal thing. As previously implied I feel its position is a little too central and would benefit from positioning further to the right.

Well done its a respectable score, your image has been very well appreciated by your commenters, thanks for submitting, Sid
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/02/2015 11:26:43 AM
Like fireworks.
04/01/2015 08:00:47 AM
I really like this, the colors and background.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/01/2015 12:37:40 AM
Gorgeous connection of yore.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


Home - Challenges - Community - League - Photos - Cameras - Lenses - Learn - Prints! - Help - Terms of Use - Privacy - Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2024 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 04/26/2024 01:49:49 AM EDT.