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11/02/2005 04:52:39 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club.
As an entry to the Image Grain Challenge, it certainly meets the requirements. The concept is a good and saturating to give a yellow channel lifts it from a standard B&W image to something more.
Technical.
The use of added noise has worked well, especially in the glass around the yellow light and B&W was the right way to go for maximum impact. However, the solar panels seem to have taken on a life of their own and are not consistent with the rest of the photo. Perhaps this artifact is due to saving for web.
Personal.
I like the crop, and feel more background would have destroyed the impact of the photo. The use of the rust/brown colour for the lamp lifted it beyond a straight B&W shot. The difference in the grain on the grass and that of the lamp glass makes it stand out in the terms of meeting the challenge and attracting votes. The strange effect on the solar panels definitely hurt your scores. What could have been a 7, has been knocked down to 5, perhaps 6 due to this.
A worthy effort that suffered from saving for web. This could be an area that you could look at, refine or rethink for future challenges.
Steve |
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10/31/2005 07:35:01 AM |
| I really like this. I like the close crop and the selective desat. I think, as usual, that it should have scored better than it did! |
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10/30/2005 08:06:11 PM |
| I think you have a good idea here, but those colored speckles in the top of the lantern really distract me -- they remind me of the sprinkles they put on donuts, and I doubt that's the effect you intended. 8) |
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10/27/2005 01:16:02 AM |
| Creepy the noise in the top. |
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10/26/2005 11:07:33 AM |
| Didn't find the colorful artifacts on the top of the lantern as an enhancement to the photo. |
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10/25/2005 08:11:47 PM |
| The black and white background works very well with the coloured lamp however the colour noise on the solar panels totally destroys the image for me. |
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10/25/2005 09:12:31 AM |
| Interesting title, old and new thing. Nice lantern but the noise seems to play some funky tricks on the top of the lantern thats a bit distracting. |
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