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03/04/2006 02:18:15 PM |
FWIW, I respectfully disagree with Larus. I think this picture has a lot of potential, and a lot of "what's wrong with it" could be corrected with some judicious tweaking of levels and curves to give it more contrast. As it is, it comes across as gray.
I don't know that much about duotones, so I may be way off here, but it seems to me that they were originally made by adding another color to the black and white printing process to make the grays and blacks more vibrant. The end result was still basically black and white.
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03/04/2006 12:50:24 PM |
Greetings from the critique club :)
Sorry but this is going to be a little short, this is one of those photos that I don´t really have that much to say about. It´s not bad, it´s not good either, very mediocre for my taste. To be honest, if I had voted, I would probably have looked at it for 1 second, given it a 5 and went on to the next one. There ist just simply nothing really interesting about this shot to me. I emphasize again though that it´s far from being bad though either.
As for meeting the challenge, it certainly does so in my eyes but I think (not sure so take this with a grain of salt) that technically "Duotone" means b/w with some other colour, like sepia toned, or green toned and such. While I would have voted it as meeting the challenge and I think that most people did since the challenge description specifically named b/w, I still think that a couple of people must have voted it with very low because it´s not a true duotone.
One other thing, I suspect this shot would look so much better in colour, with a deep blue sky and green trees and that hill probably brown and such. When I take a photo for a challenge, I try to to just that, take it FOR the challenge, not editing a shot to make it fit the challenge. I suspect you did just that, took a photo you liked that you took that week and just made it b/w to make it fit the challenge.
Sorry, I probably sound very negative for a photo that isn´t bad at all. I mean, it´s well exposed, the composition is good (not great though) and like I said, I would have given it a 5. I see that you are new at DPC, keep in mind that images that do well here usually have a "wow" factor, something people normally don´t see and this is definately lacking in that department. Try something outrageous next time and I´ll bet you will do much better :)
Kind regards, Larus. |
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02/28/2006 09:39:19 PM |
| Very strange artifacting in the sky. |
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02/27/2006 10:39:53 AM |
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02/26/2006 09:05:35 PM |
| neat with the multiple horizons! |
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02/23/2006 10:28:35 PM |
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02/23/2006 09:35:02 AM |
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02/23/2006 05:16:09 AM |
| The vast space with the small moon in it looks great. Nice shape and tone in the landscape too. Well done. |
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02/22/2006 01:25:43 PM |
| I think this one would have looked better with some colour. |
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