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Vintage paint
Vintage paint
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Vintage III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Sony Alpha a77
Lens: Tamron AF 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD with Piezo
Location: Prosser, WA
Date: Jul 13, 2014
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60
Date Uploaded: Jul 13, 2014

Tripod mounted camera using natural light filtering into an old building.

Statistics
Place: 86 out of 99
Avg (all users): 5.1519
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.3023
Avg (non-participants): 4.9722
Views since voting: 555
Views during voting: 142
Votes: 79
Comments: 3
Favorites: 0


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09/02/2014 02:15:08 PM
*Greetings from the Critique Club*

Just your luck to get a critique from me twice in a week, on two somewhat similar images. (Sorry I can't throw it back in the mix to let you hear someone else's thoughts on this image. But I'll try to be original.)

From glancing through your portfolio, you excel at finding creative examples of challenge topics. I love this kind of stuff, but it doesn't appear these types of images often land on the front page. I however love the thoughtfulness and uniqueness of images like this.

Compositionally, I think your image works. You have nice texture and colors and areas where I see movement. I especially like how the peeling paint kind of rains down from the top of the photo, that was great planning but possibly too subtle to be appreciated by voters moving quickly.

Technically I think your image is strong. There is sharpness at the edges of the peeling paint, although it a bit compressed perhaps. I wonder what focal length you used. Were you zoomed in or did you crop the photo? When I look closely at the edges of that peeling paint it seems a bit of texture is lost. I like the shade of red, and the gray and white are a nice contrast to the red.

You image certainly met the challenge IMO, and you had several very high scores - so nicely done. It appears that most of those in top ten were images of objects that people identified as vintage, and I suspect your subtle take on the challenge just didn't lead to top scores by the masses. But I do not see any obvious weaknesses to your image overall.

Keep shooting and submitting. It was a pleasure spending time with your photo.
Julee

 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/20/2014 11:05:01 PM
uber crunch.
07/14/2014 12:43:31 AM
I like this as an abstract. Well done. Not voting yet.


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