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01/06/2010 12:21:26 AM |
Greetings form the Critique Club! :D
First of all, great shot, very disappointing you didn't get at least a 5.5. But when life gives you lemons... blah, blah, blah. The first thing I notice in the photo is the bird, kudos for that, and the slick, lustrous berries really are icing on the cake. The pin-drop white background and DOF in the branches really just takes me away. Congratulations on that, but I can tell you the first major flaw here is the flat lighting on your bird. The problem with this is that your bird is the subject and your shooting for a bird challenge. The chest of the Chickadee is almost flat gray, taking loads away from the overall impact of the photo. In addition to that, the bird is annoyingly grainy, a tad out of focus, and all the black ares of the head wash together, disallowing you from seeing the bird's eye. Your background looks great, it finishes the image off with a nice touch everyone looks for in an image. The big problem here is that your subject, the Chickadee, looks like you cut & pasted it in there form another photo. I'm guessing that's why you got such a low score on one of the best photos in this challenge. Fantastic composition and lighting, but the dynamics on the subject and the detail quality on the image in general is very poor, especially on the Chickadee. Sorry about your low score, but I was just looking through your portfolio, and the composition on those pictures is amazing! You've got a great eye, I'll be looking forward to seeing more of your work. Hopefully that helped you! if you have any questions just message me.
-  ColemanGariety
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01/04/2010 02:12:29 AM |
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01/02/2010 08:19:35 AM |
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12/30/2009 04:39:55 PM |
| Nice choice to go with black and white here. Very nice shot. |
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12/30/2009 02:05:24 PM |
| Nice comp, would have liked to see this n color, 6 |
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12/30/2009 02:04:17 PM |
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12/29/2009 03:23:40 PM |
| Pretty little Chickadee. Wish his head was a bit farther from the berries and a little sharper. |
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12/29/2009 01:06:27 PM |
| Interesting choice of B&W. I wonder what the color version looked like? |
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12/28/2009 02:18:43 PM |
Nice bright in the eye, and good focus with all that distraction in the way..
I think a narrower DOF would have been nice, but probably wouldn't have been possible, and the bright sky hurts this - still we have to work with what we get right? |
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12/28/2009 01:53:59 AM |
| I'd really like to see this in color especially since the bird in question is already rather monochrome the contrast with the berries would be nice |
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