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01/13/2004 06:18:57 AM |
Hi,
I used the wrong comment box to place my CC-comment, but to get another image to comment on I have to fill out this comment box too.
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01/13/2004 06:16:45 AM |
Greetings from the Critique Club
Initial thoughts/My opinion
That's tacky! Composition is a little flat with too much to see that is not necessary.
Content/Composition
I think that the content itself is well chosen: Santa with plenty of cellphones is tacky, already on the edge of tasteless. And I think the voters saw this too.
All the stuff on the desk and in the back do of course disturb a lot. Assuming that it wasn't your store where you took the picture and you were not allowed to rearrange things, the only thing that might have helped would have been a different angle of view. Probably more from below would have been better. But kneeing down in a store is not what everybody likes to do.
Composition with light was probably also not possible to get the back darker, am I right.
So I thing you did it as good as possible.
Camera work -technically
Focus is just right and using 2.2 as aperture was a wise choice to get the back as blurry as possible. Exposure is fine, maybe a little bright. A very gentle fill flash might have been interesting, but I do not believe that in this way you would have gotten the Santa well exposed in front of a darker background.
Digital Processing - Technical
Santa appears a little soft and cropping could have been improved: either a way stronger crop to focus more on his face and the phones, or a bit wider at the top and bottom to see the whole figure. A nice frame might have been great too.
Fits the challenge
Yes, for sure
Good luck for your further submissions
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01/02/2004 08:27:11 PM |
| I think Santa has a cell phone....the missus insists on it. No if you showed LBJ (that's the Little Baby Jesus) with a cell phone....that would be so incredibly tacky it couldn't miss....better yet a nativity seen with both Jospeh and Mary on cell phones....WOW....the Just the sacrareligiousness of such a scene whould be way out there....tacky wise that is. |
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