#49 Robert - Stairway
Another neat image that didn't make my cut. The lighting has created a wonderful,dramatic shadow, but your processing was too safe for my tastes. I would punch that shadow up with deeper blacks and add some depth to it with a very slight dark brown tone.
Thanks for your detailed critique Susan. Maybe the image could have done with a touch more contrast, but I’m more into photography than photoshopping. I leave the heavy Photoshop stuff to graphic designers. Funny enough, in this case I actually tried more contrast on account of a friend of mine (who is a graphic designer) suggesting it, but didn’t like it.
But regards the slight dark brown tone I must disagree completely. That seems as off to me as red grass.
In this case the same friend suggested more blue tint, which I went along with. Not as far as he suggested, but some.
26 - Smashtoad - Exit Orange
An angled shot does not an interesting photo make. The photo needs more than the angle for me.
Good thing I didn't take it for you...took it for me.
The shot was taken because of the deeply saturated orange, which just screams at you...not the angle of the photo...that just kept it from being completely boring. I shoot for color and the potential for framing. Making something pleasing to the eye out of nothing...like an exit sign.
Since I don't rely on other people to tell me what is a good shot and what isn't, but many others seem to thrive on it...here's some feedback.
#12 Bending the Rule
- This had to get in because of the title or the lighting...for it couldn't have been the subject. Ridiculous.
#17 Subtly Sensual Sinuous Sheets of Silky Shiny Saffron Steel - Fantastic, just beautiful. More beautiful than anything that made the semis...save the boardwalk shot and Zantedeschia. Love this shot...pure art, and don't let anyone tell you any different. #22 Archway - a tourist snapshot turned at an angle (I thought angled shots weren't interesting?)...but it's in the winner's group...woohoo! Twenty three grandma's took the same shot that day....and the next day...and the next...I love the blurry woman in the shot though...it adds ACTION! It has the WOW factor! No effort whatsoever was put into the making of this shot.
#23 Spectrum - NIce
#31 Helix - Decent composition, but I've seen more color in a funeral home. Should have called it "Building".
#32 Under the Boardwalk - The clear winner, in my opinion. Turned vertical in a frame, this would be spectacular on the wall...putting things on the wall is the point, no?
Instant art made with an aperture...fantastic. I love it.
#34 Angles of an orange
- Sweet...hehe. Very cool.
#42 Natural Curves
- Very nice
#48 Center Pivot
- Nice color saturation...subject isn't quite as boring as bowling.
#50 Zantedeschia
- Just beautiful...beautiful.
And the winner is a baby's butt in dappled light. Personally, I find it very cheap...like when the ugly chick won home coming queen because it was just the right thing to do. Against a shot like Seastack from the last contest...this has no prayer.
Next time I lose...probably to a shot of a dog taking ice cream from a kid or something...I'll try not to be such a whiner...sorry.
For the peaches that bruise easily, there should be a "no critique" line added above the picture so that the judges can skip any commentary on such sensitive submittals.
Good thing I didn't take it for you...took it for me.
#48 Center Pivot
- Nice color saturation...subject isn't quite as boring as bowling.
Wow... Do I sense jealousnes and bitterness? Congrats to all the finalists. That center pivot picture I agree with you...subject isn't quite as boring as a exit sign turned into a angle.
Thank you....tho' I did ask for comments on this one ....it was my original thought for LPS 6. I did post something else and other made many, many suggestions.....so as you say and I have seen throughout the feedback.....take it for yourself! think I have seen Shay, Doc and Nicolas say this.....
Spectrum was one I had considered and with a busy schedule had to make time to take it so I had to submit something else (that got nice comments) until I could seize the oppportunity.
Keep up the good work....and thanks for the "nice" comment!!
This nature shot scored in unusual ways for me. High in theme for the repetition of the wing shape and the landscape. Pleasing composition and placement of subject, not centered as many nature shots can be. Difficulty factor weighed in as I know it's hard to shoot birds at all, let alone in a way to meet a challenge theme. Also the beautiful colors and lines strongly appealed to me.
30 - bfjr - A Timid Wave
Beautiful. Love how the wing looks so translucent.
Saurora, really dug reading your critque as that what hit me
while working on this shot. It was then that I decided to enter it.
Shay, thanks but you might be right. I shoulda coulda gone with the curvy 2 legged type, it was screamin for it and it mighta been........ahh we'll never know!
I'm gonna go shake a few trees now and see what falls out for #7 !
#22 Archway - a tourist snapshot turned at an angle (I thought angled shots weren't interesting?)...but it's in the winner's group...woohoo! Twenty three grandma's took the same shot that day....and the next day...and the next...I love the blurry woman in the shot though...it adds ACTION! It has the WOW factor! No effort whatsoever was put into the making of this shot.
No effort!?!? I'll have you know I had to push twenty two grandma's out of the way to get that shot. It's turned at an angle because the twenty third grandma whacked my camera with her purse just as I hit the shutter release.
No effort!?!? I'll have you know I had to push twenty two grandma's out of the way to get that shot. It's turned at an angle because the twenty third grandma whacked my camera with her purse just as I hit the shutter release.
They sure don't make grandma's like they used to hehehe
Creator of Dgrin's "Last Photographer Standing" contest
"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
For the peaches that bruise easily, there should be a "no critique" line added above the picture so that the judges can skip any commentary on such sensitive submittals.
I like it. Title the photo "Please don't judge this photo." Post modernist and surreal at the same time. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" for the internet generation.
I like it. Title the photo "Please don't judge this photo." Post modernist and surreal at the same time. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" for the internet generation.
too funny!
There is also another way - don't submit. Ever.
That's the only reliable way somebody can prevent his/her work from being critiqued.
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But regards the slight dark brown tone I must disagree completely. That seems as off to me as red grass.
In this case the same friend suggested more blue tint, which I went along with. Not as far as he suggested, but some.
Good thing I didn't take it for you...took it for me.
The shot was taken because of the deeply saturated orange, which just screams at you...not the angle of the photo...that just kept it from being completely boring. I shoot for color and the potential for framing. Making something pleasing to the eye out of nothing...like an exit sign.
Since I don't rely on other people to tell me what is a good shot and what isn't, but many others seem to thrive on it...here's some feedback.
#12 Bending the Rule
- This had to get in because of the title or the lighting...for it couldn't have been the subject. Ridiculous.
#17 Subtly Sensual Sinuous Sheets of Silky Shiny Saffron Steel
- Fantastic, just beautiful. More beautiful than anything that made the semis...save the boardwalk shot and Zantedeschia. Love this shot...pure art, and don't let anyone tell you any different.
#22 Archway
- a tourist snapshot turned at an angle (I thought angled shots weren't interesting?)...but it's in the winner's group...woohoo! Twenty three grandma's took the same shot that day....and the next day...and the next...I love the blurry woman in the shot though...it adds ACTION! It has the WOW factor! No effort whatsoever was put into the making of this shot.
#23 Spectrum
- NIce
#31 Helix
- Decent composition, but I've seen more color in a funeral home. Should have called it "Building".
#32 Under the Boardwalk
- The clear winner, in my opinion. Turned vertical in a frame, this would be spectacular on the wall...putting things on the wall is the point, no?
Instant art made with an aperture...fantastic. I love it.
#34 Angles of an orange
- Sweet...hehe. Very cool.
#42 Natural Curves
- Very nice
#48 Center Pivot
- Nice color saturation...subject isn't quite as boring as bowling.
#50 Zantedeschia
- Just beautiful...beautiful.
And the winner is a baby's butt in dappled light. Personally, I find it very cheap...like when the ugly chick won home coming queen because it was just the right thing to do. Against a shot like Seastack from the last contest...this has no prayer.
Next time I lose...probably to a shot of a dog taking ice cream from a kid or something...I'll try not to be such a whiner...sorry.
Peace
At least your post was entertaining
"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
Thanks for the idea!:D
Wow... Do I sense jealousnes and bitterness? Congrats to all the finalists. That center pivot picture I agree with you...subject isn't quite as boring as a exit sign turned into a angle.
- NIce
Thank you....tho' I did ask for comments on this one ....it was my original thought for LPS 6. I did post something else and other made many, many suggestions.....so as you say and I have seen throughout the feedback.....take it for yourself! think I have seen Shay, Doc and Nicolas say this.....
Spectrum was one I had considered and with a busy schedule had to make time to take it so I had to submit something else (that got nice comments) until I could seize the oppportunity.
Keep up the good work....and thanks for the "nice" comment!!
Maureen
Again... let's keep things in perspective... you took a picture of an exit sign.
Saurora, really dug reading your critque as that what hit me
while working on this shot. It was then that I decided to enter it.
Shay, thanks but you might be right. I shoulda coulda gone with the curvy 2 legged type, it was screamin for it and it mighta been........ahh we'll never know!
I'm gonna go shake a few trees now and see what falls out for #7 !
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No effort!?!? I'll have you know I had to push twenty two grandma's out of the way to get that shot. It's turned at an angle because the twenty third grandma whacked my camera with her purse just as I hit the shutter release.
They sure don't make grandma's like they used to hehehe
"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
I like it. Title the photo "Please don't judge this photo." Post modernist and surreal at the same time. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" for the internet generation.
There is also another way - don't submit. Ever.
That's the only reliable way somebody can prevent his/her work from being critiqued.
Matthew