Bamboo Surpriseby
jprhea25Comment by Artifacts: Positives:
Very well setup and nicely arranged. Technicals are a strength in this image. Would make a very nice stock photo.
Technicals:
Lighting, color, sharpness, perspective, and use of depth of field are all well done in this image. Brown tones are good. Bamboo mat for a background in support of the theme is a nice touch. The internal lighting works with the composition for added viewer interest.
The basket is cropped very close to two edges of the frame.
The Challenge:
Obviously meets the challenge. Its suprising when such a fine image finishes with a low score - 5.4. That means DPC as a whole thought the image is average. I don't. Looking at it I can find little to fault and would have scored it higher than the group. Technical and overal photographic quality makes it an above average image.
DPC voters are jaded to exceptionally good photography. The quality of photography has improved greatly on this site, but not the scores. Meeting the challenge with a technically good image is not good enough for them to justify a good score. It both has to be technically perfect and have some unique idea or specialized processing for them to give it the time of day.
Based on the clustering of scores it looks like the group as a whole felt most images were somewhat equally average and/or were not very excited about the challenge topic in the first place and gave only average scores to most every image.
Suggestions:
Overall, there is little wrong with this composition.
Oddly enough, you might consider cropping out some of the top and left side of the imnage and clip off the edges of the basket on the left and top. It comes very close to the edge as it is and that is a slight distraction. There are only two choices to address the distraction, either away from the basket to capture it further from the edge of the frame or crop it closer and crop out the basket edges. The reason for doing the second way is because the basket itself will be much larger in the frame and the detail you remove is not all the significant. Before deciding try it by just "cropping" it on the screen to see how it looks.
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