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04/20/2003 11:09:58 PM |
Critique Club critique by Tim Jensen
These kind of entries where it is a play on words really does nothing for me, to be honest. It always seems like just an attempt at being clever while avoiding the real challenge. With that being said I will critique what I do see.
It is an ordinary pie and not even a fancy one photographed from a very ordinary angle. If you are going to shoot a real pie for this challenge it needs to be shot from a real creative angle and/or use some creative lighting so that it stands out. Something needs to be done very creatively and visually so that it can make up for not really meeting the challenge. Maybe you could have tied it in with the number Pi somehow. Dot the i in Pi with it or slam it against a wall where Pi is written out or something. If it's dramatic in someway it will be a more visually entertaining photo.
It is not executed real well. The cropping is off balance by crowding the left and bottom edges and it is fairly grainy. It appears to be taken by a lower end camera and that's ok because you can't avoid that. So some things like graininess or softness are acceptable as long as you are doing all the other things right that you can control like lighting and composition.
Just keep working at it and try to get real creative with you compositions, lighting, depth of field, textures, colors, and anything else you can think of to make your images stand out. There is nothing wrong with trying to go too far and seeing what happens especially when you are already bending the rules with you subject matter.
Tim |
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04/13/2003 12:16:41 PM |
| This is one of the less interesting pie shots. It's washed out and grainy, and the pie itself isn't highly visually appealing. |
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04/11/2003 01:07:04 PM |
| I'm afraid to comment too much on this because I'm afraid that this was just taken with a cheap camera and that the problems with it are related to that. ie. grainy, not sharp etc...So the only prob I see not related to camera is that it was cropped too close to the bottom, not really even. |
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04/09/2003 07:45:59 PM |
| doesn't meet the challenge... - setzler |
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04/09/2003 11:51:56 AM |
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04/09/2003 12:56:22 AM |
| The pie looks very good to eat, but as a picture, it's a little blurry. |
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04/08/2003 11:17:36 PM |
| Something about this photo just doesn't look right; maybe it's the white balance? Sharper focus would help too. Still, it looks good enough to eat! |
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04/08/2003 02:42:15 PM |
| Is a pie, and round, but would think the subject is food without the challenge. It is a bit blurry. Adjusting the white balance and color to make the white parts WHITE would give more impact. The cropping is uneven and almost lost some of the subject out the bottom. Having it centered within the picture would work much better. |
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04/08/2003 09:40:19 AM |
| Poorly focused and over-exposed. |
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04/07/2003 06:31:44 PM |
| Okay, this is a pie, and not really pi, but the lines you use with chocolate do suggest pi, as pi deals directly with the diameter of a circle. While the image is out of focus, I do think the lines and textures help create interest. |
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04/07/2003 05:22:59 PM |
| It's a bit washed out, and it's not very exciting either. A solid white or black background and a roomier crop would probably up it a bit, along with a sharper focus ofcourse. |
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04/07/2003 10:50:27 AM |
| Focus is too soft here. Needs to be sharper. Just doesn't meet the challenge to me = 4 |
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04/07/2003 10:33:33 AM |
| Banana cream or chocolate Pi ? Nice color, good lighting and the focus seems right on, bit of a shadow with your side lighting, but so what? |
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04/07/2003 01:53:26 AM |
| With an "E"?? Picture is terrible and blurry. :( |
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