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06/06/2006 01:03:16 PM |
Hi from the Critique Club!
A sure sign of success is having a statue dedicated to you, showing that you left your mark on history, so good choice of subject.
My first observation is that the statue itself is very dark, so we see little real detail. But it's also too light to be a silhouette. So it ends up in no man's land. I don't know if this was what you intended.
If you had chosen a different time of day so that it was illuminated by the natural light or a higher ISO, the image would be more powerful.
You have placed the statue in the middle of your image, which tends to make it static. Take a look at photographs you admire and observe where the photographer places their main element.
The building behind him is leaning into the image, this together with the tree distracts the eye from the statue and creates an imbalance between the left and right sides of the photograph. Moving around the statue and experimenting with different angles would help eliminate busy backgrounds.
The green tint is I think to give a verdigris copper effect? But because the statue is dark already, the green tends to darken it even more.
But it's an interesting take on the challenge. |
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05/26/2006 05:07:45 PM |
| The statue makes a powerful statement. I find the greenish tint kind of comtrived, and the leaves that seem to be growing out of his back weaken the effect. |
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