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06/29/2004 05:17:43 PM |
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06/29/2004 06:46:49 AM |
| I think this would be more successful if you moved the camera a little higher so you could see more of the cigarette. |
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06/28/2004 02:54:08 PM |
| I'm not sure what this image is. An ashtray, I'm guessing, but too much is blurry. What's the white thing, a cigarette? Sorry, I just can't make out everything in the image. |
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06/26/2004 03:53:58 AM |
| Good idea...too shallow depth of field. |
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06/25/2004 09:38:21 AM |
This is a rather vague image. Reproduced in a paper, it would become unintelligible.
The idea is good, but more butt, less ashtray, and moreof the image in focus would illustrate it better. Keep taking pictures! |
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06/24/2004 11:49:30 PM |
| very interesting shot! i like how you focused on the butt, but i think there is too much of the blurry ashtray in the pic. cut it down a tad! very creative! |
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06/23/2004 09:19:36 PM |
| Just by looking at the photo,can't tell what is going on,it looks like piece of glass abstract 3. |
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06/23/2004 05:43:30 PM |
| hard to make out what the picture is of. |
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06/23/2004 05:39:15 PM |
| Maybe a little TOO close-up, you have to look twice to see what it is. Other than that, well done. |
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06/23/2004 04:46:18 PM |
| Took me about 1 second to figure out what that is without looking at your title. You'd want the viewer to notice what it is once he first looked at it. Maybe if you took the photo with more of the cigarette and without the ash tray blocking parts of it then it would be a better photo. |
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06/23/2004 03:37:52 PM |
This is far to abstract for journalism. Journalism (ideally) requires clarity in order to inform a wide public. I would argue that even if it were a beautifuly focused shot of the ashtray and smouldering butt that it would lack relevance to the story without a human element. Still lifes do not make good journalism. So in that respect I would say that it fails to meet the challenge.
From a strictly photographic POV, I find the depth of field far to shallow to really draw me in. The tiny bit of in-focus subject is unappealing to me and as an abstract there aren't really any dramatic or beautiful shapes, forms, lines, or colors created by the blurring. |
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06/23/2004 02:55:24 PM |
| Good use of depth of field, and nice tones in the black and white. Perhaps some smoke trailing would have added some more impact to this "discarded" cigarette. Also maybe slightly more of it in view would be easier to understand. |
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06/23/2004 10:48:38 AM |
| Kinda hard to tell what we are looking at. maybe zoom out a bit, show it smoking, or maybe a hand putting it out? Just some thoughts! |
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06/23/2004 10:28:25 AM |
| excellent. high impact, perfect composition |
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06/23/2004 09:11:42 AM |
| it's getting a bit too abstract because it's mostly out of focus. Makes a nice blurry picture, but not suitable for a newspaper i would think |
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06/23/2004 05:20:11 AM |
| Photo is too close to see what it is. (without knowing ahead of time) Good job though. |
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06/23/2004 04:12:55 AM |
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06/23/2004 02:24:11 AM |
| very cool idea, though id like to see the cigarette butt in sharper focus. |
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06/23/2004 01:38:33 AM |
| Nice idea, I would like to have seen just a little more of the cigarette and maybe some smoke comming off it. |
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06/23/2004 12:35:53 AM |
| A little more DOF or perhaps a slightly higher angle shot would have been nice. |
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