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04/16/2003 11:32:34 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club
By Inspzil
Composition - I originally gave this photo an 8. I went back and looked just for fun. That's not normal practice for me, but I thought, "what the hell?" It made me look at it a little closer and wonder what I saw exactly to make me vote that way. Well what I see, and obviously most of the voters didn't is the pie symbol that you can see right above your hand, and on every "petal" of this "flower". It does resemble some kind of Mayan Calendar or something sort of mysterious like that. The appeal of this photo to me is the contrast of this cool shape and the white background. If you could've totally silhouetted the hand I think it would've been more mysterious and better as a whole. You had a few comments regarding the hand being there. I'd leave it just like this. How would a picture rate if it looked like a decorative ceramic tile or a wallpaper pattern? I think by keeping the hand you make this more of an obvious photograph and it's unique. Great composition!
Technical - The silhouetting of the hand, I'm not sure how capable your camera would be to do that. The shutter speed is already way fast and the aperture is already pretty small. This photo is very well taken. The silhouetting may be possible to achieve is PS by cranking up the contrast and dropping the brightness a little. But I think its very good the way it is.
Overall - Really a neat picture that I don't think a lot of people totally understood and didn't look at very closely. I think there is more than one way to look at this and conceptualize pi. Very good work! Good job and good luck in future challenges - Inspzil |
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04/12/2003 02:33:10 PM |
| What an amazing picture! I love the etheral look of the weird thing in the sky and one lone arm holding it up. If I could vote, I'd give it a 9! |
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04/12/2003 01:01:11 PM |
| This is really cool. I love the odd sense of scale and perspective. That object is so beautiful. The only thing I don't like is the brown border. I don't really like it when people use a colour from the image for the border... it distracts me from the subject with that colour, and kind of undermines its influence in the photo. |
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04/09/2003 10:41:47 AM |
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04/07/2003 07:54:11 PM |
| This is really unusual. Quite a design. Nice color in the background. Good lighting. Too bad you couldn't have come up with an idea of having it up there without holding it up with your hand - you would have come up with some really high points. |
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04/07/2003 05:06:05 PM |
| well . . . something's being held in the sky, but i'm not seeing pi. i don't know how delicate this object is, but if you could have tossed it up/taken photo ie: removed hand from the picture it would have been much better. |
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04/07/2003 03:25:52 PM |
| This photo indicates to me several things: First, we hold pi (as an extension of or base of technology) high as some kind of beacon or symbol. Second, it communicates to me the complexity of pi. I read this past week that the most accurate way to describe a circle, when relating to pi, is that a circle is an infinite number of corners put together. This hints at that to me. |
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