War and Peace
by teemuo

Comment by dsa157:
good idea, but the lighting is pretty uneven. The bullets are too dark and the top flower is overexposed and over saturated.

Soldier Cut in Three
by teemuo

Comment by suprada:
Hi!
Greetings from the Critique Club!

About the photo, first let me state the obvious...the photo does seem to be too dark to make out the details. With what details I can see (after increasing the brightness of my monitor), it is surely an interesting photograph.
Technically, I would like to see the photo a bit more sharp. The lighting with the torch seems abrupt...I wonder if it could have been made more seamless... I assume that the flashlight was first focussed on the feet, then on the hands with the rifle and then the face. The bright spot to light the face overlaps the shoulder part of the midsection. In my opinion, placing the hand and rifle part lower would help and balance out the light spot positions and make them symmetric along the anti-diagonal. Also some more space on the right edge would help with the photo balance.

All said and done, its a nice photo. To me it symbolizes the before, now and after of a soldiers life. Well done and keep shooting. Hope to see more great work from you.

-- Suprada

War and Peace
by teemuo

Comment by denisk:
Though you put the focus on the 'war' part, such a shame. Also that the flowers are blown out.

War and Peace
by teemuo

Comment by GrayGhost:
Nice idea. More illumination would help the bullets. More DOF would help the flowers.

War and Peace
by teemuo

Comment by temba:
It may be my monitor granted, but the item on the left of this shot is too dark for me to make out. Add to that the soft, distance focus on the flowers and sadly this image just hasn't fulfilled its potential to my eyes. I also have a hard time getting the link with odd.

War and Peace
by teemuo

Comment by Jammur:
A novel idea. Really hard to distinguish the cartridges because of the lighting.

War and Peace
by teemuo

Comment by NekoNita:
The bullets are too dark imho (in fact just the shell) but I really like the ide

War and Peace
by teemuo

Comment by Glou:
Great shot and idea but a little too dark on the left IMO.

Soldier Cut in Three
by teemuo

Comment by teemuo:
The problem with this image was simple. My laptops monitor shows everything too light. So when I tuned the curves on this one, it got way too dark. It is a shame, because I think more people would have liked this one if it was lighter.

Thanks for everyone for commenting, this was my first picture on the DPC and got lot of comments. :)

War and Peace
by teemuo

Comment by Mel34:
Yes...veery odd to connect war and peace at times!

This is very dramatic and I love that!