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06/12/2005 08:16:01 PM |
* Greetings from the Critique Club *
I remember this entry from a recent challenge and thinking WOW what a fantastic shot! I LOVE the model & expression on her face. It screams to me of any local urban nursery wherein you know the locals on sight. It has a beautiful "familiar" feel to it and the composition really reinforces this emotion.
The colors & composition are wonderful. I would say that the lighting seems a bit harsh in spots, so if you were to reduce the backlighting and/or increase the contrast a bit, you might find even more detail & hidden treasures to show. Along the same lines, the sky could use a little more color - namely blue. There are several ways in which you can achieve that (as you probably already know), but I think that a little less glare would only further enhance the warm familiar feeling that the shot already conveys.
I'm not crazy about the green border either. I think that the picture speaks for itself without the added color (but that's just my opinion - I know that borders can frequently add a lot to a shot, I'm just not sure that in this particular instance it works in your favor).
Overall, the photo is excellent. I know that I scored it quite highly in the challenge (8-9 if I recollect correctly).
I also find it difficult to really point out many features that warrant reexamination and/or improvement. The lighting glare is the most obvious one to me. A secondary one might be the clarity of the background images - a certain degree of OOF begins to enter the image as you stray from the close-up subjects.
Again, I can't stress enough what a warm familiar feeling this image brought to mind for me. That alone is worth a LOT in my book. When you can evoke that strong of an emotion from the viewer, then you know you've been doing your job well!
Just my 2 cents... |
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06/05/2005 02:33:14 PM |
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06/05/2005 12:21:59 PM |
| This is a nice image but having so many things to focus on gives it a bit of a snapshot quality. I don't think this needed a double green border having so much green in the image. Just an opinion but I might have done black, green, black if I were to go that route. |
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06/05/2005 02:43:37 AM |
| Nicely composed bright beautiful image. |
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06/04/2005 07:14:55 PM |
| Nice capture, but this isn't saying "beautiful" to me. I like the quality of the image it just isn't fitting the challenge very well in my opinion. 5 |
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06/03/2005 06:49:50 PM |
| I personally don't care for the bright green double border with this image. |
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06/03/2005 01:23:36 AM |
| Nice colors and nice composition. I think I would enjoy a tighter crop of the main subject as well. Plenty of plants that are lovely, but there's something to be said about the beauty of someone working a job they enjoy. |
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05/31/2005 12:35:43 PM |
| love the color and charachter |
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05/30/2005 10:14:24 AM |
| I like it, I may have just cropped it tighter on her. |
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