Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight?by
PetRockComment by Bear_Music: I didn't vote this challenge, so I'm seeing this for the first time. Got here through the "trolls" thread. You'd have gotten a 4 from me. Now let's look at your checklist:
Art evokes emotion. That's a valid criterion for art, but DPC isn't about "art" so it tends to be irrelevant. And even if DPC *were* about art, you still wouldn't expect to score well when pushing the revulsion button.
Adheres to the Challenge theme. It does do that :-) Shallow DOF is used.
Interesting color palate. The color *palette* is strange, I'll grant you that.
Interesting textures. I don't see it as partcularly *textural* myself; more a bunch of plastic-appearing blobs...
Details continue emerging if you examine the image for any length of time. This is true enough, but the same can be said for any detailed image, it's not really a point in its favor unless the details bear studying, and these really don't.
Original, unique composition. I can't agree with that. The actual composition is centered and fairly banal.
Similar subject matter rarely found. This is true; we don't see a lot of shots of chewing gum, and chewing gum alley in SLO is a one-of-a-kind place for sure :-) But in and of itself, this isn't a reason to give the image a better score in a photography contest.
Use of precious early evening sunlight. This is where I'm truly disappointed. C'mon! You had ACRES of chewing gum there. It was the golden hour, and you *recognized* this! Is this the best you could do? This unfortunately flat and boring angle of light, out of all the angles you might have chosen? You could have done so much more!
So, to sum it up, from my perspective you have a fascinating-but-yukky subject that you more or less completely failed to show to its best advantage, and your score reflects that.
R.
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