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04/01/2004 04:35:55 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club...
Hi Mona...
Good rule of thumb: If you ask for an in depth critique, you should be willing to include your own comments with your photo when you submit it. Does this photo not have any meaning or interest to you personally? If not, it's not worth asking for an in depth critique. You have to care about it before you should ask someone else to do the same :)
I think you have a nice angle and composition on this flower bud. The water droplets look very pleasing and the diagonal orientation works well here.
The image is displaying a lot of noise in the background. Based on your exposure information, it's probably not from a bad exposure. It may be cropped out of a larger image or something... maybe sharpening artifacts?
Keep up the good work.
John Setzler
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03/26/2004 10:14:02 PM |
| Composition is very good and I imagine the original had decent dof. I find this a bit too oversharpened. |
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03/26/2004 09:54:02 PM |
| Very good. However, I prefer more empty space on top than at the bottom. The lighting her is very dramatic and the dOF, superb. Just the right amount. |
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03/26/2004 03:15:37 PM |
| I woud have rotated this 90 degrees CW. Apart from that, excellent capture of a wild orchid. Crop doesn't really fit magazine cover either. |
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03/26/2004 11:59:27 AM |
| A very pretty shot, but magazines are almost universally vertical, and should have a space where the logo and list of top stories could go without covering anything essential to the picture. |
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03/25/2004 07:10:15 PM |
| A little too bright on the lighting, very nice composition |
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03/25/2004 05:38:18 PM |
| Very nice shot, good use of top-left to bottom-right diagonal. Very effective use of limited depth of field. However, the shot is very noisy, I would have cleaned this up with NeatImage. IMO the flower needs much more sharpening in PS. I think your thick black border detracts from your photo. Your camera needs a bit of help in PS with colours and saturation... the colours seem a bit dull and lifeless. |
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03/25/2004 01:54:53 PM |
| Should go very close, excellent 10 |
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03/25/2004 12:28:27 PM |
| nice focal point, interesting subject. |
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03/24/2004 12:37:56 PM |
| interesting photo......great dept of field.....love the colors and the water droplets |
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03/24/2004 12:10:05 PM |
| incredible clarity and dof |
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03/23/2004 05:09:03 AM |
(I'm writing this to everyone who submitted a landscape shot) The challenge was to produce a shot worthy of a magazine cover but to me a shot like this is not suitable to be put on a "portrait" format magazine.
Nice capture of the dew though
---ADDITIONAL---
Due to forum discussions and accusations that marking landscapes down is nitpicking, I'm going through them and remarking. I still think some of the landscapes would not make good covers because of their orientation but I am no longer marking down because of that.
I still think landscape is inapropriate for the majority of magazines but I'll give the benefit of the doubt to the photographers. |
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03/22/2004 07:14:57 PM |
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03/22/2004 05:52:15 PM |
| A pretty macro with nice composition and nice use of shallow DOF. I love the blurred lines of the background and particularly the colours within them. |
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03/22/2004 05:27:18 PM |
This is a little bit too noisy.
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03/22/2004 03:46:52 PM |
| Something about this shot messes me eye up. Nice subject. Maybe the angle. |
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03/22/2004 12:23:09 PM |
| great photo - although a bit over sharpened for my taste |
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03/22/2004 10:14:43 AM |
| A bit too grainy, (maybe oversharpened?) |
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03/22/2004 10:10:56 AM |
| I think this is a really nice macro shot. I would get rid of the border, based on the challenge of it being a magazine cover. |
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03/22/2004 01:01:53 AM |
| beautiful. love the graininess, looks as if it has already been printed on nicely textured matte paper. |
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