Festival of Lightsby
theSajComment by _eug: **** Greeting from the Critique Club ****
First impression: the image is dark.
Challenge
- Relevant to the Challenge? Yes
- Is subject unique (vs. unoriginal or rehashed)? Yes
Compostion
- Good or Bad? How can it be fixed? There is a lot of dead space to the top and to the left due to the darkness of the image. Crop them out making the starburst more dominant in the image. I wondering if your point was to make the light secondary to the gold ball as it seems to being the point in focus.
- Good use of Depth of Field? Yes. Good Bokeh.
- Good focus? No. The focus is on the gold ball and not on the "Burst of Color" although with this particular subject it's going to be difficult to get the lights (a light? which one to choose?) in focus.
Lighting
- Good use of light? As I mentioned earlier, the image is dark, so no. The star filter helps to distribute some light to other parts of the image, but most people are going to think this image too gimicky for it's use.
Aesthetics/Artistic Appeal:
- Colors and Contrast. I love the colors, especially the out-of-focus yellows, blues, and greens.
- What is my reaction or feelings? If I use my hands to crop the image. It's amazing, but as submitted it doesn't excite me.
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