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Challenge: Postage Stamp II (Extended Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D7100
Lens: Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM Autofocus Lens
Location: Chateau Snaffles
Date: Dec 25, 2016
Aperture: various
ISO: various
Shutter: various
Date Uploaded: Dec 29, 2016

I got the idea for this while shooting broken ice crust. I liked the mosaic effect and knew I wanted to use it in the final design. Shot an outline of a maple leaf that I had kicking around, and yes was even lazy enough to simply shoot a stamp for the deckle edge, so I wouldn't have to go through the hassle of pping one :-)

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Place: 18 out of 29
Avg (all users): 5.7843
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 5.3125
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Views since voting: 327
Views during voting: 100
Votes: 51
Comments: 3
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01/06/2017 10:54:22 AM
Hello from the Critique Club.

Susan, honestly I'm not excited by this challenge in general. What looks good on a stamp doesn't necessarily look good at 800 x 1200. This might have been a good challenge to view from my phone.

I agree with the other members. The image is simple and appropriate for a stamp, but I really think the large image sizes worked against you. When I open your image by itself and zoom out to about 25%, I start to like your image more, but I do lose the taupe border around the leaf, which was a key design element I think that added some extra interest. Additionally, the text becomes a bit small proportionally, although at full size the text feels big. If the challenge creator had some forethought, they should have made an additional rule to require images to be 300 pixels max. Anyway, enough griping.

I like the sparkly background, but wouldn't have known what it was without really reading your description. Again, it looks even better in the size that a stamp should be.

Some final thoughts, You have a border around the stamp edges, but not around the stamp background. It looks a little off because of that. I'd suggest putting a border on both, or neither.

Hope you found a little insight here for this unconventional challenge. Cheers.
-James
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/05/2017 12:04:33 PM
Simple yet compelling design. This would make a good stamp.
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12/30/2016 02:16:34 AM
clean and clear from where it comes well done
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