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11/04/2005 03:37:54 PM |
Hello from the Critique Club!
I have studied your image and have the following to offer:
Composition/perspective - the overall use of negative space and the amount of space your subject occupies is a good ratio. Looking up at the subject actually works nicely here as it allows you to use the sky as your 'white.' The rule of thirds is applied here nicely as well.
Lighting - this is obviously natural light. Coupled with your choice of perspective it works well though as there are no harsh spots or dark shadows. There is a little brightness on the right hand side, but it does not distract or lessen the shot. This may have something to do with the weather or time of day. Either way, good timing for capturing the shot.
Color - there are some great variations in the bird you have brought out very well. The sky also seems to carry on mostly a uniform coloring(except as noted above). It is the dark green/gray of the fence that is out of place.
Challenge requirements - the challenge was light on white. I think you have the light part ok. The white part is not exactly white. It would be a stronger image if the sky was less gray, in my opinion. This may have been helped if your perspective was different so that incorporation of more of the whiter shade to the right was used as the background. I understand though that a bird is not necessarily going to cooperate with you on that. But I feel it may have hurt you some. A different perspective may also have helped - if you were on the other side of the fence so that the main portion of the bird showing was the chest, which is white, was against the uniform gray sky. It would have reversed it to white on light, but that may have worked. The fence doesn't help at all. It is distinctly dark and could have been removed - cropped out. Again, a perspective change may have helped this. Obviously I was not where you were so I have no idea what the surroundings were and the availablity of any of those chages.
Overall/my opinion - you have a very crisp, clear, well composed shot. Your focus is excellent and your subject is well placed. Perhaps in a different competition it would have performed better. You obviously have the eye for the shot and creative writing skill/imagination(the title). You should not be disappointed with its performance in the challenge.
Message edited by author 2005-11-05 00:36:28. |
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11/01/2005 05:29:35 PM |
| not bad......should be closer cropped in on bird. |
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10/30/2005 12:53:57 AM |
| i think this is leaning toward dark |
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10/28/2005 05:53:16 AM |
| LOL, you scare me s...less. |
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10/27/2005 09:01:04 PM |
| HAHA. very witty and clever. |
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10/26/2005 08:43:17 PM |
| Looks like he wants to kick my butt! 7 |
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10/26/2005 02:34:12 PM |
| Beautiful, why oh why did you NOT crop out that fence, way out of place in light on white, would have scored much higher with me if you had cropped it down to a close up of maybe the gull's head and neck, with maybe just a little of the grey wing, just my opinion, but know I would have scored it higher like that!! |
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10/26/2005 09:31:57 AM |
| Love the title! Nice image too. |
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10/26/2005 03:44:33 AM |
Very good picture, and really funny combined with the title.
I like the composition.
The only critique I can find is
that it could be more light/white
but that is minor. |
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