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11/01/2005 04:51:29 PM |
*Critique Club*
First of all... does it fit the challenge? YES... and I think this was a really cool idea, that could definitely be expanded on. Congratulations by the way on your first submission, I'll try and give you a few tips that could help you next time.
In terms of the size of your photo, this one is much too small to see anything, and that caused you to lose some major points here on DPC. How can you fix this? DPC allows you to enter an image that is 640 px at it's longest side. So in photoshop - or an equivalent program under image, image size resize your photo so that it is (for this image for example) Width - 640 pixels Height will change with that... Resolution - 72 pixels/inch. Make sure that the boxes for scale styles, constrain proportions and resample image (bicubic) are all checked. That should help you have the right size for next time!
On to technical stuff...
I like your composition it's pretty nicely done... maybe it would have been nice to have seen just a little more of the flowers on top of the grave? but that isn't too important, and it looks like that is somewhat throwing off your exposure...
This is a very difficult image to expose for and I can't claim to be the best at making sure an image is the best lit possible... however I think that I would have exposed maybe for the bottom of the tombstone, on the left side? (if you didn't have any lighting implements) thereby making everything just a bit darker... you also might have been able to play with that in curves... and darker is often easier to work with than too light with no information.
The colors look pretty washed out, and it would have been nice to have more clearly seen your reflection... the exposure should help with this.
I think your title works well for this because it's almost like the flowers are the ghost, seen in the reflection, and I like it a lot.
Make sure that you are checking for sharpness and focus... often when you are resizing, things can lose some of their sharpness, and you have to go in and fix that, playing with the unsharp mask tool.
I think this is a good start... and welcome again to DPC.
-Talya |
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10/25/2005 06:04:31 PM |
| such a small photo, and such a cool idea! wish i could see it better... |
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10/25/2005 04:22:43 PM |
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10/24/2005 05:48:31 PM |
| Another small one. With sirious exposure problems |
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10/23/2005 08:27:02 PM |
| for me, this photo would have greater impact if: 1) larger - using the maximum 640 pixels allowed by DPC; and 2) moving in even closer to the reflecton on the tombstone itself, thereby eliminating the background distractions. |
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10/23/2005 12:05:41 PM |
| small but nice reflection |
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10/23/2005 12:50:40 AM |
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10/21/2005 10:35:12 PM |
| Too small...can't really make out the reflection |
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10/21/2005 08:14:17 PM |
| Blurry and too small....can't see a lot of the reflection. |
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10/20/2005 07:44:53 PM |
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10/20/2005 04:10:29 PM |
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10/19/2005 05:56:24 PM |
| sizing... bigger is better |
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