57 Fordby
sebassComment by Cory: Greetings from the Critique Club!
First Impression: Oh my blurry goodness!
Meeting the Challenge: A bit of weakness here, as my attention is immediately drawn away from the truck, and drawn to the couple.
Composition: The composition is nice, with a lower left - upper right diagonal emphasis on the subjects. A very beautiful place to photograph, with the bending trees overhead, and the green, green grass in the foreground.
Subject: Very fun subject, we all love a nice love story.
Technical: Oh, man. Well, in some aspects you've done very well, the lighting does look good here (and that's hard under these conditions, with patchy ambient lighting!), but I can see the softbox's reflection in the truck, and it really does distract just a little from the lines of the vehicle. I'm wondering if you had an issue with your post processing, I own a 20D, and that's a sharp camera, so I know this shouldn't be blurry like it is, I suspect you may have compressed this too much, or done something odd during resizing.. Then again, I can absolutely see from your portfolio that you sometimes favor a blurry processing, so if this is intentional, you have certainly succeeded..
Final thoughts: An image with lots of 1950's charm. There is an instant connection to the couple, and you are visually drawn to them. As for your score, it would have been much higher if the blurriness issue wasn't there, and might have been improved by getting the couple to go for a walk ;).. In any case, a really good concept that I'm sure the client was very happy with...
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