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03/22/2006 04:57:41 PM |
Hi from the critique club,
well done in this challenge! You met the challenge and you did it in style
(nice shoes and stickings by the way). When i first saw this image i thought, i see the shoe, but wheres the other element. Then i saw that you used a short depth of field to show the feather. This is the main thing that brought your score down. The other thing that i would have liked to see was lighting that was a little less harsh. I'm wondering if you diffused the light at all? This would make the blown out skin a little less blown out and create more of a snese of realism rather then abstract.
As i said before the main reason why i think this image was not voted very high was that the feathers were out of focus. What i would do to fix this is maybe wrap the shoe with the feathers or have a feather sticking out of the shoe, something creative.
Something else i would have done to this photo is diffused the light. This can be done by simply wrapping some parchement paper or wax paper around the lamp, causing a diffused glow. I see in your comments you said that you didnt do very much PP. Although sometimes this is bad i think that this photo could have benefit from a little bit more post processing. I would have cloned out the distracting white marks in the background and i would have run it through neat-image to soften the skin tomes a little bit.
Overall i though this was a good technical photo. But it was lacking some crucial elements that would have mad eit score higher.
Everything i said here is not meant to be offensive, its onl meant to help you. If you have any comments or questions feel free to private message me and ill get back to you as soon as i can.
Most of all keep taking photos, its the only way to get better!!
-Dan Gruskin
P.S. please ignore any grammer mistakes, as you are an english lit. student ;) |
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03/15/2006 01:10:42 AM |
| Ouch! Quite a contrast. Bringing that something extra to a challenge! |
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03/12/2006 11:14:58 PM |
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03/12/2006 08:09:11 PM |
| hmmmmmm that's an ugly....nevermind..the feathers are hard to see and lighting needs work |
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03/12/2006 04:14:21 PM |
| very nice, great DOF control like the lighting and the detail |
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03/12/2006 11:42:48 AM |
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03/12/2006 05:28:49 AM |
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03/12/2006 01:58:34 AM |
| GREAT lighting on this. A good idea, well-executed. |
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