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Challenge: Window Framed (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ30
Location: Hamilton New Zealand
Date: Apr 23, 2006
Galleries: Still Life, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Apr 23, 2006

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Statistics
Place: 29 out of 180
Avg (all users): 6.2753
Avg (commenters): 7.1379
Avg (participants): 5.9444
Avg (non-participants): 6.4650
Views since voting: 1059
Views during voting: 372
Votes: 247
Comments: 33
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 05/06/2006 11:03:07 PM
::: Critique Club :::

Hi, my name is Kari and from the critique club.

Interesting to do a critique on your image but it is difficult if you don't give us any information in your photographers comments. When we do a critique, we go past just the photographic result, that's what voters comments do. The critique looks at what you were trying to achieve, how you wanted it to look and what issues you had in getting the image captured and ready for voting.

First Impression - the most important one:
Well thought out shot .. seems to be playing on the sillouette .. but I don't think it quite made that ...

Composition:
Not centred ... which I like, I like the drop of the curtain .. looks like the glass in the toilets over here in NZ ... but who cares I am surmising ... the composition it self works well for this shot.

Subject:
Meets the challenge with all the kiwi ingenuity.

Technical (Colour and light):
I know lots thought the black and white worked .. but I am not sure that it does with the use of only backlighting ... unsure really ... I like the silouette type feature and feeling to this shot.

To grow its vote?:
You already know how to ribbon and do better .. but just keep doing really ..

Summary:
Love to see you still doing fantastic as always .. been interesting having the critique what i think is one of our own.

If you've got any questions about this critique, please feel free to contact me via the PM system.

Cheers

Kari
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 05/01/2006 12:41:52 AM
This is underrated. I thought this was great. I'm guessing if you catered this more to the DPC crowd and kept/made the flowers colorful this would have scored much higher.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/30/2006 11:50:42 PM
Great composition and B&W study.
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 04/30/2006 10:34:54 PM
Great image! simple yet effective. good overall lighting. one of my top picks.
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 04/30/2006 09:05:36 PM
Good choice to make this b/w, I don´t think I would have liked it as much in color.
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 04/30/2006 06:05:45 PM
yep.. good one hope it does well
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 04/30/2006 05:25:27 PM
Pretty... modern vs. antique vibe
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 04/30/2006 09:28:07 AM
your window is a bit tilted, but I like your choice of b&w! great contasts.
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 04/29/2006 11:36:33 PM
Lovely! I really like this done in black and white. Some may say that you should move the vase slightly to the left but I find it very well balanced where it is, due to the shape of the curtain and positioning of the flowers. The only nit is the slope at the top of the window frame - this could be cropped just below it, or use post processing to correct the perspective.
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 04/29/2006 11:07:30 PM
nice tones in the black and white, lovely picture
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 04/29/2006 11:05:42 PM
Nice idea, the composition doesn't quite feel balanced. Not sure how this benefits from being in black and white, I want to see the colourful flowers!
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 04/29/2006 10:30:40 PM
Would like to have seen this with a tad of fill light... lovely composition
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 04/29/2006 09:45:27 PM
Good clear picture. Perhaps a bit more detail in the vase and flowers would be better (another light source perhaps). I like the simple composition.
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 04/29/2006 08:57:54 PM
pleasing combination and the black and white is nice
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 04/29/2006 03:42:00 PM
Well done. Good idea to use the b/w.
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 04/29/2006 01:20:54 PM
Nicely composed and captured. The tonal range is nicely covered and the crutain really leads the eye around the frame. Nicely seen.
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 04/29/2006 11:25:30 AM
Very nice B&W work, great contrast, and a really nice composition.
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 04/29/2006 10:57:24 AM
Nice photo, love the use of B&W here. I think the light is great too. Good luck.
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 04/29/2006 09:56:13 AM
Simplicity...I like it
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 04/29/2006 08:35:33 AM
Top 10 or 20. Looks just grea and meets the challenge.
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 04/29/2006 07:23:49 AM
wow! I like it. It's one of the bests in this challenges. I like the B&W, the landscape and the composition (curtain and flowers)
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 04/28/2006 05:34:22 PM
peaceful. the curtains add to this, as does the bent flower. I'm starting to get quite fond of this subtle kind of photos, so good luck.
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 04/28/2006 05:02:11 PM
Wonderful still life. Great black and white with good tones. Excellant shapening and a good technical achievement.
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 04/28/2006 04:56:08 PM
Nicely done.
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 04/28/2006 01:52:43 PM
Great choice of B/W. Nicely composed. Good luck in the challenge!
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 04/28/2006 01:14:32 AM
nice range of BW tones in your pic
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 04/27/2006 04:11:19 PM
The lighting works really well with the B&W.
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 04/25/2006 09:16:10 PM
Ok I'll be the nth person to say this is stunning. Congrats.
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 04/25/2006 01:44:05 PM
Lovely!! B&W was a good choice for this
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 04/25/2006 11:03:53 AM
Very pleasing on the eyes and the b&w treatment works well in my opinion.
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 04/25/2006 03:22:19 AM
Nice composition and I like the use of black & white too!
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 04/24/2006 11:42:11 AM
Nice lace curtain. Pretty silhouette.
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 04/24/2006 06:34:11 AM
I always enjoy images like this. Don't know why, but I like it a lot.
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