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| 02/25/2016 11:34:31 PM |
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| 02/21/2016 05:35:53 PM |
A Winter Sunset After A Light Snowby WonderDudeComment by snaffles: Greetings from the Critique Club!
Not a bad sunset shot, and a light amount of fallen snow, but this time the voters wanted to see something much more dramatic - big flowing clouds, thunderstorms, insane amounts of snow. This is Ok but it's just a sunset, and those danged trees are in the way! The sculpture(?) or pile of chairs in the lower right third looks like it's meant to be a focal point, but it's too small and insignificant, so the eye goes roaming looking for more.
If this is the kind of photography you want to pursue, get a tripod (even a cheap one will do) and use much longer exposures and much smaller apertures and ISOs to get the kind of dramatic sunset shots that do well here. I don't know many Texas landscape shooters, but maybe Kobba, who tends to like wildlife, has seen some areas that would be good for sunsets. Try PMing him and see.
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| 02/21/2016 09:23:52 AM |
A wise man named Tomby WonderDudeComment by snaffles: Greetings from the Critique Club!
An interesting portrait of an interesting man, to be sure :-) I guess you can see why the number of hand comments, the angle here gives him an even larger set of hands than he already has! The one closest to the viewer is literally the size of his head. If this is what you wanted, it works!
Now, pay attention to the restaurant lighting. The lights are overhead and pointing straight down, so while his forehead, cheekbones, hair and to an extent, his beard, catch the light...the eyes are in harshly defined shadow, as is the mouth. It just doesn't really work. The angle of the booth behind his head draws attention away from him and down the wall to the visible wall light. There's a reason why portraits are generally just head and shoulders!
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| 02/11/2016 07:53:18 PM |
Smoke Break For The Working Manby WonderDudeComment by snaffles: Greetings from the Critique Club!
I quite liked this image and gave it a 7 in voting so thought it would finish higher than it did. I think you beat me :-) Stuart and his pose here reminds me of Nathaniel Rateliffe, of whom I am a fan. You have a lot of grey tones in there, but I don't see true black, though pretty sure there is pure white in there. The lighting and comp are great. I can't see the extensive pp work, so kudos for making it invisible!!
Honestly I don't know why portraits seem to have been soundly panned in this challenge. Seems like the voters were expecting nothing less than towering peaks and cool urban shots, and anything more earthy and/or human just wasn't in the cards.
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Susan |
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| 02/09/2016 10:55:33 PM |
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| 02/09/2016 07:53:21 PM |
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| 02/07/2016 05:23:50 PM |
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| 02/06/2016 08:53:35 PM |
A wise man named Tomby WonderDudeComment by Abra: Nice portrait and good lighting. The blown highlight on the wall does draw my eye but needs me to visit Tom on the way so it kind of works. |
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