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02/11/2003 07:16:11 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club :)
I think I can understand your 'cliche' aspect of this photo without much trouble... flowers and cityscapes are quite common subject, even when they are combined this way.
There are a few elements of this photo that need some improvement. I'm not sure of the details of your particular camera, so I don't know how much control you actually have with the exposure. First of all, the image is a bit busy. As I view, I can't decide if I want to look at the flowers or the traffic. The car lights behind the flowers make it quite difficult to let my eye settle on the flowers. The image also lacks sharpness. This may be created by a handheld shot in low light. A tripod and a timer release shot usually help this problem quite a bit.
Keep up the effort :)
John Setzler
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02/10/2003 10:25:18 AM |
Didnt vote this week, but this one caught my eye. The image itself does deserve its low ranking, but theres lots of good stuff in the image that have the makings of a really good 'art' peice (I.e. one that will score just as low on DPC).
The blue flowers are really good, especially the one in the bottom right, and they place points of interest around the field, and also complement the reds. Perhaps placing the bottom left one exactly in the bottom left corner would help. They are there to balance and contrast the reds and yellows in the 'action' part of the frame.
The big red stem is a problem, it runs across the main element, and isnt really leading the eye anywhere. It would be better if it was vertical up the right side, creating a barrier to stop the road leading the eye out of frame (although I think its good for the road to be doing this).
The building in top left is not helping anything, its not bright enough to be balancing the weight of the blue flowers, and its blank space contests for the viewers attention. It could serve a purpose as a background silhouetting the red flower spike.
The lights are excellent, not to fuzzy not too sharp. That area could be placed better to show the contrast with the blue flowers, moving it towards the top right. Perhaps a longer exposure would have bled the red tail lights out along the road, leading the eye into the picture.
The top left is OK, but I'd like to see more of the top of the palm, the cropping on the right is good, not too much of that building, but enough to stop a blank space. |
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02/07/2003 09:49:56 AM |
| Splendid and unique concept capturing the South Beach hustle and bustle behind some tranquil flowers. |
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02/06/2003 11:18:24 PM |
| I'm sorry but I'm finding it hard to determine what the focus is on. I'm assuming it is the slanted plants. If so, the out of focus flowers in the foreground, the buildings, and the lights in the background are distracting. Cub |
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02/06/2003 11:40:47 AM |
| need more focus--maybe using a tripod or putting the camera on something stable--longer shutter speed |
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02/05/2003 05:40:58 PM |
| I like how the flowers turned out and the brake lights are in the back ground. Nice Work |
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02/05/2003 12:10:08 PM |
| Sorry, nothing of interest here. |
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02/04/2003 09:33:10 PM |
| Too much background distraction. I can't quite find what the focal point of this picture is. |
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02/04/2003 06:57:45 PM |
| A very out of focus, "busy" shot with lots of distractions and no discernible subject. |
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02/04/2003 01:16:29 AM |
| Nothing in this photo looks in focus to me. I'm guessing that you took this hand held causing motion blur. A tripod would have made this much better in my opinion. The other option would have been to use your flash but that can be hard to control too. Good Luck. |
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02/03/2003 02:50:09 PM |
| Needs focus. I can find not one thing in focus. |
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02/03/2003 01:56:25 PM |
| Its very dark on my screen and i cant really see it, what is it? |
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02/03/2003 02:38:24 AM |
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