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04/25/2007 07:14:18 PM |
Positives:
Brave abstract and good choice of red (T-shirt lol!!) for a background. The sharpness of the main subject, the single hair, is very good. Vignette highlights the hair well.
Technicals:
This is probably an artifact of post processing but there is banding, most notable on the right side, in the "smooth" background that acts as a distraction. The object holding up the hair looks to be very, very slightly oversharpened in a couple places. Red might be a little oversaturated and the reflection off the 'object' is slightly overexposed.
The Challenge:
As is true of most every image, it meets the challenge and does so uniquely with a single hair. It is possible some voters expected hair to be more prominent and may have voted lower because of it. The banding in the red had a negative effect on voting. The 'object' balancing the hair is unidentifiable and though it is a tricky call in an abstract it is possible that voters wanted to know what it is and the fact it is unidentifiable acted as a distraction.
Suggestions:
Suggestions to reduce banding. In images captured in RAW do as much color processing and saturation in the RAW converter as possible and open the image in 16-bit mode in a high density color space like "Prophoto RGB". All this will preserve more color variations in color tones and reduce banding. In fact, that is one of the main reasons for taking in RAW in the first place, to preserve all that image detail possible. Color processing in your image editor will degrade your color tones and if you overdo it banding shows up. Don't change image to 8-bit and sRGB until just before you save for the web and your tones will be best preserved in your output file.
Also looks like your cloning may have left some artifacts in the smooth background on the right. The blur and healing tools are good for removing that. |
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04/24/2007 11:24:43 AM |
| Wow, serious macro...good graphic/artistic appeal. Nicely done! |
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04/22/2007 10:52:46 PM |
| that is what i like to call a macro! |
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04/20/2007 06:50:41 PM |
| Nice composition on this abstract. The colors are very strong. Neat close-up! |
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04/20/2007 12:20:28 PM |
| Cool idea! Not sure I like the red background very much, and it almost looks like the saturation is too high... but an interesting, unique shot! |
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04/20/2007 01:06:06 AM |
| Very creative, appealing, and different. This was the only photo I saw in the entire project that only included one hair. Well done. |
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04/19/2007 10:07:51 PM |
| WOW, nice idea!! would have liked to see a lighter background, but still is nice. 7 |
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04/18/2007 12:20:13 PM |
| nice perspective on the challenge, i would of liked a larger DoF though. Took me a while to realise what it was, larger DoF would distuingish it more |
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04/18/2007 11:29:51 AM |
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04/18/2007 02:38:57 AM |
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04/18/2007 01:51:22 AM |
| great macro...love the red |
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