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09/21/2005 03:22:54 PM |
Hello, and greetings from the Critique Club. The critique you are about to recieve is tailored for DPC challenges alone, and is not intended to be seen as an artistic critique per se.
Initial Thoughts
A nice shot, but a little too loose in compositional elements.
Composition / Content
While it's a very cute shot, and I love the expression on the boy's face, the photo suffers from a lack of strong compositional elements that tend to bring a DPC photo higher votes. It seems to be hurried, like a snapshot that is a little more technically well done. The boy is crouched and seems to be hiding, the landscape orientation doesn't really work for me, and the lawn chair is more of an "amateur" like element and a little distracting. Voters here tend to really grab on to little things like that. While it's a great family shot, it just doesn't meet the DPC standard, and you can see that your score reflects this.
Background
Background is clean and nicely OOF, good job on that.. but it also doesn't really add anything either, being a little too dark and "dirty"
Camera Work / Technical
Some really nice work with your technical skills here. Focus is sharp, DOF is pretty good (I suspect that some voters wouldn't like the hand OOF), and exposure seems pretty good as well.
Digital Processing
The skin tones here still have a bit of a magenta/red cast. Other than that, everything you've listed has been seamlessly done, with no glaring or obvious processing artifacts.
Fits the Challenge
While it technically fits the challenge, it feels less like the kind of portrait that was "expected" here, and more like a quick snapshot. Meaning that voters probably feel it to be a little "lazy" or "rushed", and will vote accordingly.
My Opinion of the Photo
Fun candids like this are some of my favorite photography work on a personal level, but for DPC it just doesn't work if you're looking for higher scores or placement. Because it was done well technically, it probably received some higher scores than other photos like it would have, but the "snapshot" elements just keep it from being anything more. A good shot, I do like it, it just got lost among more formal and compositionally stronger portraits. Good luck in future challenges.
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09/18/2005 10:38:50 AM |
| Amazing clear eyes and great expression! The composition might be a tad stronger IMHO of you cropped out the left side of the chair? great soft lighting and out of focus background! well done |
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09/17/2005 09:46:41 PM |
| Makes points on adorable-ness. Needs a little better focus on his front hand (DOF issue). Very nice shot |
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09/16/2005 08:29:07 PM |
| it looks like you used the camera flash, which is good as a fill. but when the sun doesn't do much to contribute to the lighting, the lighting and thus the picture always seems to look a bit flat. with stright on lighting, the picture loses a lot of it's 3d feel. also the picture looks a bit cool. im not sure if this was a white balance issue |
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09/16/2005 04:27:26 PM |
| Image is nice & crisp. The blue object in the bottom left corner takes away from the shot somewhat. |
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09/15/2005 07:39:16 AM |
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09/15/2005 05:13:48 AM |
| Very cute. Nice focus, his right hand is somewhat distracting though. I realize it's not easy to control children though. 8 |
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09/14/2005 03:04:58 AM |
| Very good lighting and exposure. |
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09/14/2005 01:12:08 AM |
| Nice shot, the clarity is good. |
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09/12/2005 09:59:52 PM |
| Great level of detail, can't notice the flash until looking at it carefully, nice fill. |
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09/12/2005 08:58:43 PM |
| Nice photo of a cute kid. For me, I would have cropped out that bit of leg on the right, but not bad overall. |
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09/12/2005 07:54:39 PM |
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09/12/2005 09:26:37 AM |
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09/12/2005 08:08:06 AM |
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09/12/2005 01:44:59 AM |
| lovely shot, head just cropped slightly tho |
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