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09/15/2005 01:02:25 PM |
Critique Club
Hello from the Critique Club.
This image is certainly high in contrast. It is an interesting image, and the story/translation in your description adds to the interest.
As several people have commented, you have an interesing grain effect, very reminiscent of b&w film. I think that this works well here (especially in the light greys).
Focussing on the detail as you have, the image takes on an abstract quality, though at the expense of the viewer's general comprehension of what they are looking at.
As you have chosen to present an abstracted image, the importance of remaining elements and in particular composition increases. The key elements in this image (to my mind) are the writing, the highlight on the barrel of the gun, and the stand (with more writing). These elements are all quite central in the composition as it stands, which leaves the eye quite static when looking at the image. It may be more satisfying if you moved everything so that the important elements were off centre, leaving the eye to move around the picture to extract the detail (and even better if you could direct the eye to a particular highlight of the image). I might have tred framing this image with the gun running along the top third line, with the stand to the left of the image.
Part of the challenge (in my opinion - there is some debate) was to find a subject matter that was naturally high in contrast. You appear to have chosen to represent high contrast by taking an image that does not appear to have been very high contrast to start with and applied a dramatic shift in brightness and contrast in post processing. The consequence of this is that you have lost a lot of detail in the barrel of the gun. While having strong whites and blacks is important in demonstrating high contrast, some grey is necessary to keep detail up. I think that finding the contrast naturally and gently enhancing it while retaining detail was likely to be a more succesful strategy for this challenge.
Feel free to pm me with any comments. Good luck with future entries!
Matthew
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09/12/2005 03:47:58 PM |
| My highest score yet! Thanks for all the comments on this everyone! |
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09/11/2005 12:20:05 PM |
| Okay, I read the Spanish saying on the piece of metal. Is that a gun? I can't really find anything appealing in this image, I also think that the high contrast made the image worse rather than improving it. 4. |
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09/11/2005 09:31:46 AM |
| nice grain and high contrast, but I am unable to tell what this is? |
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09/11/2005 01:29:18 AM |
| Not bad, but for me lacks that "wow" impact of other entries in this challenge. |
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09/10/2005 08:14:26 PM |
| The grainy effect works well on this one. Nice job |
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09/09/2005 11:52:55 PM |
| No idea what the image is of, but the contrast is nice and strong. |
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09/05/2005 02:16:07 PM |
| Very nice, I love the high grain that you have here and the classic look that you've given it. |
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09/05/2005 01:34:12 PM |
| i've spent awhile trying to figure this one out, but alas it has beaten me. i do find the background particularly interesting to stare at. |
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