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05/10/2004 07:37:40 PM |
* Greetings from the Critique Club *
Proportion was a wonderful challenge - with a great many excellent entries. So - don't feel bad if your entry didn't appear to do well in such stiff competition.
The selection of subject matter was excellent - trying to show the relative size of the bike to the train. Your exposure seems to be near perfect.
I have several suggestions on how this image could have been improved - both during shooting and post-processing.
1. Lighting was not your friend. The sun was high in the sky producing no shadows that would have given a better feeling of depth. Due to this, the colors appear very "flat" and uninteresting. You could try taking the same shot in very early morning or late in the afternoon. (Try taking your rides then!) An alternative could be the use of a warming filter, but I doubt if that would have helped that much.
2. Compositionally - the train track comes very close to duviding the picture in half, which makes the shot very static. Consider this, shoot it VERTICALLY with the bike in the bottom (front) of the frame and the train behind. Move in closer to the bike when you do this.
The yellow "no passing" sign is a bit of a detractor that doesn't help tell the proportion story. If you were using it to show the train was passing the bike in a no passing zone, that's a different challenge. As it is, it just attracts un-deserved attention.
3. Post processing - you have a real mess in the sky area. You most likly tried to compress the jpeg a bit too much. Looking at the image properties, it is just 53K bytes. Suggest you try to save the image in a filesize that is closer to the "limit" of 150k. This will eliminate the jpeg compression problems.
I see this is just your second challenge entry - but hope you will continue to share your vision with us. |
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04/30/2004 09:01:02 AM |
| A well framed image but the colours dont jump out at you, it feels a little flat. |
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04/28/2004 09:51:04 AM |
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 6
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 5
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc.? 3
How well does it meet the challenge: 4
Total Averaged Rating 5 Autool
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