The Boldt Familyby
autoolComment by kiwiness: Critique Club:
Hi Richard. I must confess when I voted on your pic in the challenge I didn't catch the story line until much later when I re-adjusted and I pushed up my original vote.
I think you have created a very humorous image which in my opinion was scored and placed much lower than it really deserved. Okay it isn't really a "wow" photo, but it is a photo with a lot of charachter and tells a continuing story, something which only a handful of photos in the challenge were able to do.
Technically, the layout and composition is good. The border is fitting to the image and the color scheme is also bang on. The lighting is excellent and I detect no dark areas and also now blown out spots. Setting up lighting for shiny objects is very difficult and you have mastered that here.
As was already commented below a couple of times, it is a pity that some of the bolt's heads are not fully visible in the third image. Perhaps if you had enlargened all the ovals a little more and increased the size of the overall image you would have gotten around that.
Also a tad more unsharp mask may have been necessary in my opinion to give the nuts and bolts a crispier appearance. They appear a little on the soft side.
Other than that this is a top multi-composition which, as I already mentioned, was extremely underrated.
Gary
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