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05/02/2012 06:48:57 AM |
Welcome from the Critique Club.
My initial thoughts on viewing this photo is that it is a thoroughly interesting image that is a bit of a stretch for the challenge.
On a technical level, you have used a challenging camera technique to good effect. Composition is very good, although some may prefer all of the tiger's rear leg to be in the shot - I really like the way s/he is leaping out of the corner.
It is on the aesthetic and emotional level, though, that I think the success of this photo lies. The image is full of intrigue - the strange figure in white leading or charming the tiger as though he were a pied piper figure, the ghostly people looking on, the only child whose face is visible has a completely dead-pan, inscrutible expression. Aesthetically I love the way the blur has created a feeling of texture, and has somewhat muted the colours and partially erased all shapes escept the tiger.
In voting I gave this a 6, pretty much for the reasons I have given in the preceeding paragraph. I did feel that, to me at any rate, it didn't depict an emergency; there were two things in particular thta contributed to that idea not coming across - both really nit-picky, but could (possibly) have been countered with use of 'expert' editing - the tiger's gaze is not on the figure he is following/leaping at, and one of the people is holding a camera which makes him a straight spectator ata zoo rather than a part of (my imagined) scene.
I haven't been particularly articulate in addressing this iage, but I hope you get my drift! If you want any clarification, please feel free to send me a PM.
Regards, Sara. |
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04/27/2012 04:31:26 PM |
| as if a man in a bunny suit weren't enough of an emergency. nice. |
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04/26/2012 10:56:57 PM |
thrilling catch
I'm hanging this in my fantasy art gallery
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04/26/2012 06:47:38 PM |
| Seems like a bit of a shoehorn. |
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04/26/2012 08:46:11 AM |
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04/25/2012 08:52:11 PM |
| Almost too much going on here... but a 7 from me. |
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04/23/2012 12:20:33 PM |
| Yes... that's pretty cool... and scary. Nice job. |
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04/22/2012 11:36:09 AM |
| Sometimes these motion shots work and sometimes they don't. Again, just my opinion, but I think this could have been thought through to produce something better than what is shown. |
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04/20/2012 12:11:11 PM |
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04/20/2012 02:13:58 AM |
| 90% of 911 calls are for this very situation. ;-) Cool shot! |
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