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02/05/2010 07:35:07 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club!
I love the feel of this shot, the timelessness of it. It could have been taken 50 years ago or yesterday. The heaviness of the fabric and the helmet are great. Composition is sound, can't really fault it, and the ambient light off the sparks is wonderful. The rebar, mist/smoke, all really add up to a terrific industrial/environmental portrait.
With high contrast, people will either love or hate it. I think the high C works well here in the b/w. Settings look fine for a shot of this nature. Though shots of people do well on this site, that usually means a visible face too! Had you caught your colleague with his welding mask raised, you may have scored far higher.
Overall a vastly underappreciated shot. Just remember that when it comes to Free Studies, tack on another .5 to your score, because that's generally what your shot would have done in a challenge to which it was suited.
Feel free to PM me with any questions,
Susan |
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01/28/2010 10:49:32 PM |
| Speaking for the engineers who work with me, let's hope not. Nice picture captures all the essential darks and lights. |
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01/28/2010 05:46:51 PM |
| This had to be challenging lighting. It works though. |
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01/28/2010 01:46:17 PM |
| This just grabs me; it's appealing like a photo from another era. Dramatic light and shadow, the b&w works well. |
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01/28/2010 07:29:33 AM |
| This has a very old feel about it, reminds me of the shots you would always see of the shipyards in Glasgow when I was a young boy. Nicely handled for what I would imagine was a tricky exposure, and I like the B&W conversion. |
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01/27/2010 01:57:34 PM |
| very nice environmental portrait. |
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01/26/2010 09:02:38 PM |
| Nice workplace shot. Good job on the B&W. |
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01/26/2010 02:56:13 PM |
| good shot with this, i like the take on it. |
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01/25/2010 10:17:36 PM |
| very dramatic !! nice high contrast shot. 7 |
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01/25/2010 10:11:42 AM |
| very unique ... love the b/w conversion ... 8 |
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01/25/2010 09:05:33 AM |
| good overall, but just that, good... 6 |
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01/24/2010 08:30:31 PM |
| really good tones...can almost smell what he's burning/welding |
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01/24/2010 03:12:39 PM |
| I don't get the title, but it's compsitionally solid and appealing, so......7 |
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01/24/2010 04:02:38 AM |
| Very nice environmental portrait. I like it a lot. |
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01/23/2010 07:27:35 PM |
| gosh, this looks like a still from Metropolis or something. very nice environmental portrait. |
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01/23/2010 04:03:55 PM |
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01/23/2010 10:47:36 AM |
| Interesting subject matter, a bit noisy perhaps. |
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01/23/2010 06:17:54 AM |
| a B&W image in tricky light conditions. I feel that there are too many light areas especially, and not enough of the grey midtones that are needed to really make the B&W image pop. |
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01/23/2010 02:37:52 AM |
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01/22/2010 09:51:37 PM |
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01/22/2010 04:37:41 PM |
| Maybe to overexposed - Needs more contrast for this type scene/exposure in my liking. |
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01/22/2010 12:25:25 AM |
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