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01/19/2005 10:47:06 AM |
Greetings from the critique club!
Initial opinion: aww how nice...4.8783! what the....
Does it meet the challenge: I must admit that it is very weak in the brokeh catagory. Whaile the brokeh is there it's not very strong. I feel that in good brokeh the chakground would be almost unidentifiable yet hint at what it might be. While out of focus I can still clearly tell that they are cabinets with bottles plates and some christas style flowers on the counter. I feel this might have a bit to do with such a strong and wonderfull image scoring so low.
Lighting: I realy like the lighting. The flesh tones are very rich and full of life. The slight shadows dancing around the face are also very well done.
Focus; he he focus on a Brokeh photo..almost a funny catagory. But still necessary. I feel the the two main characters are focused very nicely. I think that the soft focus works very well on them and I would not change a thing here. As I stated earlier however, the backgound could use a little less focus.
Back ground: Perhaps if this had been shot in front of a less identifiable back ground it would have done better. I personaly would like to have seen this shot in front of some fall colored trees, some reeds, or somthing of the sort. Another option that might work well is to cop this image a little tighter. Perhaps right along the bottom of the glass in the cabinets.
Overall: I realy like this shot. I feel that with the back ground fixed and peoples phobia to pictures of peoples childen, this could have easily been a contender for a ribbon. This in my opinion is a great example of a family shot that you can enjoy even if you don't know the family. I don't remeber what I scored this shot in the challenge. But I would score it about a 7 now. If the background was more brokeh. I would easily say an 8 or 9. This is a wonderfull and well exicuted shot in my opinion. So keep up the great work, and I hope you have better luck in future challenges.
Tristalisk
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01/15/2005 11:19:39 AM |
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Message edited by author 2005-07-12 08:11:42. |
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01/14/2005 06:00:53 PM |
| Very cute, maybe a curves adjustment or more contrast whould make it more striking. |
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01/13/2005 11:30:48 PM |
| everything seems equally soft. and the background doest involve me. |
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01/11/2005 11:51:21 PM |
| The border is very distracting. |
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01/11/2005 10:21:19 AM |
| Love it, a little more blur and I am sure it would have done very well. |
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01/10/2005 12:43:27 PM |
| The short definition of Bokeh from KenRockwell.com, which I am using for voting on this challenge: "Bokeh describes the rendition of out-of-focus points of light." We do see some of that here. Is the subject enhanced by the bokeh of the background? To my eye the specular bokeh highlights are distracting from the main subjects. The shot itself is lovely, though the hand position in the frame is distracting and abruptly cut off. This is going to sound really weird, but something about the tones and colors in this image remind me of some 70s sitcom. Not that that's a bad thing! :D |
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