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jmritzComment by fotomann_forever: ::: Critique Club :::
As requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.
First Impression - the most important one:
I love this image. I found the subject very powerful and intriguing. I imagine it as an older mother that has been abandoned by her adult children. Works well for me.
Composition:
A tad off. You've used the Rule of thirs fairly well, but the image is slightly rotated CCW and I find it somewhat distracting.
Subject:
The subject, as stated in my first impression, is very strong. The baseball cap is a little unneccesary in my opinion, but not so much as to destroy the image.
Technical (Colour, focus, and light):
Focus is good as is the DoF you've chosen here. Maybe a little fill-flash in the would help the lighting, but it's not bad overall.
Colour ... I'm not real fond of the colour treatment here. It comes out a bit too green for my eye. A more natural sepia would have been a better choice for the color. B&W only may have been a lot stronger.
To grow its vote?:
More than likely, the lower votes were from the composition problem with rotation and the colour choice. Subject is obviously not the problem.
Summary:
You have a really good image here. A few technicals could have made it a very strong contender and perhaps even ribboned. Overall, this is a image in which you should take pride.
Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy
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