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03/16/2005 09:30:31 AM |
Greetings from the critique club!!!!
Initial impact: ahh prety standard shot.. like the stars though..
Meet the challenge: It takes a momment to notice the ghost. While this meets the challenge it takes a beiwer a while to see what is surreal about it.
Lighting: I feel that the lighting is pretty good in the shot. Not much I would change or could change with lighting.
Color: I tend not to like the orange hue that street light at night tend to give off. I constantly get it in my onw shots. I do feel that dosn't work to bad in this particular shot it tends to add to the surreal feeling. I do think that this would have been a bit more enjoyable if you were to desaturate the orange a bit and bumb up the blues a little until you reached somthing of a gothic feeling blue grey. I think this would have worked well with the stones in the photo.
Focus. Dead on I have no complaints at all with the shrpness of the image. It is a nice clean, crisp, in focus shot.
Background: The street lights in the distance are a bit distracting however, due to the basic editing rules there was pretty much nothing to do about those. (short of maybe geting arested for shooting them out with a b.b. gun.)
Composition: Not to bad but I feel that you would have done better if you had shot this from the side and closer up on the ghost. This would have bought out your ghostly subject a bit more. I also feel that having the ghost in summer clothes from a past erra would have realy added to it's ghostly apearance. The modern clothes at the old tomb do little for me. I also realy don't care for the hood shot from the back it pulls all of the character and emotion out of your subject.
Conclusion: Not a bad shot but the composition realy hurt the high emotional impact that this shot should have had. I feel that as is I would have given this around a 5. However if this same shot had been composed differently I can see a 9 or 10 as bieng completely possible. Great concept, nice execution, but the composition is a little weak. Overall pretty standard in a very demanding DPC challenge. I look forwrd to seeing more from you in the future. Good luck in the future challenges.
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03/16/2005 03:07:16 AM |
| Awesome I cant believe you did this one! Very well done the light shows a lot of the mood. If there was any less of the ghost we might not tell it was there .. Well done! |
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03/15/2005 01:08:57 PM |
| Very unique. I really love what you've done here. 10 |
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03/15/2005 08:43:38 AM |
| I'd probably like this shot better without the man in it. |
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03/13/2005 02:13:02 PM |
| You had guts to do this !! i hope you score high good luck ant (10) |
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03/11/2005 01:23:29 AM |
Nice photo. I love the way the lights look and your ghost-how did you do that?
Would love to see this in black and white,
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03/10/2005 06:49:02 PM |
| I do not understand what is surreal about this... Lighting could've been better, especially on the subject. Composition is weak and it leads away from the main subject of the shot. Not enought sharpness, there is a wierd fuzyness everywhere which is not very appealing. 4 |
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03/10/2005 11:48:03 AM |
En opeens sien ek haar hardloop tussen die molle:
hoe sy grawe in die geel grond!
Ek sien
"....haar stembande tril in die lig van die middag.
Haar dun lippe roer saam met die gras
en eenkant fladder geel skoenlappers soos vlekkies son
in haar hare in." |
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03/09/2005 03:20:55 PM |
| I would have like it more if the subject was more translucent. But it was a difficult shot and a long one also, so nice job. |
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03/09/2005 10:24:16 AM |
| done that check out mine on my profile |
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03/09/2005 07:48:48 AM |
| I like the lighting and the six pointed star light filter. Nice church and cemetary. The only negative for me is that the spirit overstayed and shows little transparencey. A 7. |
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03/09/2005 07:01:53 AM |
| Nice idea but the execution doesn't make me like it. |
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