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05/28/2006 11:43:40 PM |
From the Critique Club:
This shot overall is very nice. I'm torn about the lighting though. At first I thought that it was kinda cool that it was such a dark shot, but the more I look at it the more I think it's too dark.
Technicals: Very nice focus. Very nice colors. Very nice DOF. Exposure seems to be off. The shot is just dark. If this is what you were aiming for you hit the mark. Does it work? That is another question. Were you trying to seperate the subject from the background through darkening of the background? If so you did it. However, it doesn't look right. It looks like it was post processed that way and if you can tell it was pp'ed a certain way, IMHO you failed. Kinda like if you can taste one ingrediant in chili...
I would love to be able to see the original of this.
Yours
TC |
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05/27/2006 03:21:33 PM |
| Suffered from the hat shadow. :( Other than lighting issues, this could easily have been a contender. Well done! |
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05/21/2006 07:08:44 AM |
| I wish you'd softened your flash just a little, which would have reduced or negated that shadow across his forehead. Fill-flash is absolutely right here, fo course - allowing you to make use of the natural contrast of that heavy sunlight. |
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05/19/2006 10:11:52 PM |
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05/18/2006 11:07:58 AM |
| Nice job on the lighting, very dramatic and I like it. |
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05/18/2006 02:11:24 AM |
| this is a very good portrait it stes the place and charactor of the man 9 |
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05/17/2006 06:11:16 PM |
| The poor Fella looks sick as a Chip |
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05/16/2006 05:49:32 PM |
| the background seems a bit dark, might be my monitor but if it were a bit lighter it would enhance his environment-6- great sharpness on the cowboy in foreground. |
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05/16/2006 05:03:23 PM |
| pulling back would work better I think |
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05/16/2006 12:56:02 PM |
| good photo, wish the shadow wasn't so strong across his face though ... |
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05/16/2006 07:44:29 AM |
| Hope the life is not as "sad" and his face is :o) Good picture. |
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05/16/2006 07:40:09 AM |
| I little bit to dull... lacks brighter highlights. Nice shot though, 7 |
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05/15/2006 04:41:46 PM |
| This is one powerful image. Your lighting on your subject is technically excellent as you've got under the hat and shown all of the face. I do like the way that you have darked off the background. It's unnatural but a really good visual effect that doesn't detract from the result but enhances it. You do have a halo around his right shoulder where the mask is and that might cost you a point or two in the voting. |
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05/15/2006 01:17:01 PM |
| Use a fill flash, get that shadow out of his face, distracting. |
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05/15/2006 10:45:47 AM |
| if you had moved him so the sun is on his face it would have been good |
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05/15/2006 09:50:33 AM |
| a little rough on the post processing. 6 |
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05/15/2006 07:42:15 AM |
| yup! ... great shot -- Bringing out the eyes was a good idea since they were in the shadows. |
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05/15/2006 06:08:41 AM |
| A man on the land,fits the ckallenge well and well processed....9 |
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05/15/2006 12:45:58 AM |
| Man, I love this. I wish his eyes weren't in shadow, but I still like the whole story this tells. |
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