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10/01/2005 09:15:18 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club
by strangeghost
COMPOSITION
Composition is excellent. You've placed the horizon near the bottom "third" line giving you a pleasing balance between water and sky. Horizon line is level. The bird is also placed well, adding interest and harmony to the shot.
TECHNIQUE
It is in the technical details that this shot literally falls flat. The colors seem very flat and grays dominate. Other than the pale blues in the sky, there seems to be almost no color at all in the shot. Since you provided no camera setting details, I can only speculate that maybe you were a little over or under exposed and tried to compensate in post-processing. Surely with blue skies, you could have pulled some color out of the water or some greens in the distant foliage? From the appearance of the sunbeam in the sky, it looks like the sun may have been in front of you, to the upper right? That can make achieving the correct exposure tricky, and can fool the camera's internal meter into underexposing the darker parts of the image. At any rate, I can't help but wonder what you might have been able to achieve here with a bit of levels and saturation work in a photo-editor package. With an excellent composition, this image bursts with unrealized potential.
OVERALL IMPACT
Pretty dull and low impact, as your final score of just under 4.3 reflects. Given the emotional significance the shot had for you, I imagine you were a bit disappointed, but surely you see what the voters were responding to? (looking over your voter comments) - Your commenters pretty much touched on everything that I mentioned. "Destinations" was not a huge challenge, but your photo likely didn't cause voters to stop and look more than a few seconds. Let your colors pop. Learn how to use post-processing to your advantage and make a photo - like the bird in this one - soar.
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09/23/2005 10:56:17 AM |
| always difficult to capture this kind of emotional background in a photo. this place is probably special to you, but the photo does not bring that out. with a human element (granny & grandchild) in the forground it might work. better luck next time |
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09/21/2005 12:39:35 PM |
| For me, the coloring is a bit muted, and it looks a little grainy. I like the bird though - it adds interest. |
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09/20/2005 02:17:53 PM |
| I like the ray of light, but so much of the shot looks dirty. The bird might pop more if the picture were brighter. |
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09/19/2005 08:30:25 PM |
touching title, photo is a bit lacking on the technical side though. a little muddy/grainy for my taste. but i like it anyway... 6
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09/19/2005 01:52:04 PM |
| Great potential, but the colors seem a bit bland. The bird, horizon, and foreground are all out of focus and the bottom half of the image seems awfully dark. I really like the ray of sunlight shining through the clouds and it does help draw your eye to the bird, but with such an out of focus image, it kind of leaves the viewer hanging. Potentially a good image. |
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09/19/2005 10:21:21 AM |
| too dark and no real punch |
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