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01/18/2004 07:34:25 AM |
Greetings from the Critique Club
Initial thoughts/My opinion
Oh, what happened here: looks like an enlarged thumbnail. Lot of action, but to be honest: I don't like guns.
Content/Composition
I don't want to address my disliking of guns here, because that completely my personal taste.
You captured of course a moment of great action: there is almost nothing having more action in the sense of speed, sound etc. than a firing gun. Also that you captured the gunfire and the smoke is very well done: how many shots did it take to get it right?
The way you presented the scenery is well made too: the way you cropped it is well thought out and the balance between the sky and ground is good. Also having the gun horizontally is good.
Camera work -technically
Exposure seems OK although the man's shirt is a little bright, but it adds to the mood of the image. Regarding the focus I can not say much due to the extremely low quality.
Digital Processing - Technical
Of course I have not seen the original, you probably needed to crop out a small section out of it. However, the image is simply dominated by digital artefacts coming from need image and maybe from the jpeg compression. A smaller size might have been better here or a strong artistic filter might have helped to overcome the technical shortcomings.
BTW: I really would love to see the original to see if there couldn't be another approach to increase its quality.
Fits the challenge
Of course it fits very well.
Personal Remark
That it did so bad could have honestly be foreseen: DPC-voters, especially in member-challenges are very much looking for the image quality and vote everything down that comes short here, no matter what subject is shown. I had this experience too with my Cliché entry.
By this I learned that if an image is below a certain standard, it's better not to submit at all.
Good luck for your further submissions
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01/11/2004 11:53:42 AM |
| You have frozen the action well, but it is a shame the quality is poor and looks massively sharpened to compensate. |
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01/11/2004 09:31:46 AM |
| Image quality suffers due to size reduction. |
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01/10/2004 11:49:05 PM |
I didn't vote low on this because of the gun! I did vote low on this because it's not very much in focus (Not even the parts that aren't moving) and in fact it looks like a capture from a video...
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01/10/2004 09:38:14 PM |
| ouch....looks like this was taken with a webcam. Nice try, it was a good idea. ds |
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01/09/2004 08:14:39 PM |
| I like the idea, "The action" of a rifle. The execution is not as good as the idea. Extremely pixelated. I think it would be better to see the rifleman's face as well. |
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01/08/2004 05:28:18 PM |
| Would be great if the photo quality was higher. |
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01/08/2004 07:55:21 AM |
| The image quality is rather low here. I"m not sure if this has been over-processed in a neat-image type program or if it has been cropped too much or some other problem has come up, but there really is hardly any detail available here at all, and it is a problem. |
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01/08/2004 04:24:54 AM |
| Nice timing, but very poor quality picture. |
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01/07/2004 02:41:49 PM |
| Great timing! The sweater and face are pretty overexposed; the whole shot might have been helped with some work on the levels. |
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01/07/2004 12:46:09 PM |
| The composition of this shot is fantastic, and your timing was incredible to get the muzzle blast. Unfortunately, the quality really kills it. |
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01/06/2004 10:00:07 PM |
| shot looks a little out of focus...too bad nice idea |
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01/06/2004 12:35:36 PM |
| Great action to capture but it's just too blurry and too oversharpened. Nice try though. :-) |
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01/06/2004 10:26:17 AM |
| Time is perfect - very tough to get the muzzle flash. Not in focus. |
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01/05/2004 09:49:08 PM |
Some bad compression. Looks like it distorted your shot.
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01/05/2004 02:24:07 PM |
| Maybe a little overprocessed. I tried getting a capture like this, but your timing is better than mine. |
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01/05/2004 02:10:40 PM |
| This is a good idea, and excellent timing on your part. You might want to get a better camera though...the compression and artifacts really detract from this. Great take on the challenge though |
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01/05/2004 01:08:13 PM |
| Looks like you lost a whole lot of definition when you shrunk the size. Nice catch on the flame coming out of the barrel. |
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01/05/2004 11:55:38 AM |
| Looks like you put some texture on top of the image and it doesn't do it for me. Great timing, nice to see the flames coming out of the barrel. I would have done less "photo-shopping" on this one (given that the original was good enough, you can't really tell how the original quality of the shot is. |
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01/05/2004 01:25:31 AM |
| nice moment of action captured, but way too much sharpening was done to this image. |
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01/05/2004 01:00:27 AM |
| this would have been great if it were in focus, i like the way you captured the fire coming out of the barrel....maybe a tripod would have helped |
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