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Comment by justine:
Looks like a fun time, hope he had a wench.

sinking
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Comment by loz1:
cool shot, but is that water? That was excluded from the liquid challenge

sinking
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Comment by hawkida:
That's water. Not clean water, but water all the same, so doesn't meet the challenge.

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Comment by gaja_tz:
nice photo but as I remember, liquid - not water?!?!

secondary curves
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Comment by ursula:
Just posted, trying again ...

secondary curves
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Comment by ursula:
From the Critique Club

Hello, Wendy,

First impressions: The photo is beautiful, almost more like graphic art than like a photograph. It's funny, when you stare at it it looks flat (as in one plane) and has a lot of depth, both at the same time. Very interesting. Meets the challenge without problems.

You must have turned the brush over before taking the photo. My one nitpick here are the words on the brush, I'm wondering if cropping just a little higher (eliminating the words) might improve the picture. Something to try.

Focus is excellent, all that needs to be in focus is. Lighting is very good. The colours really shine in this picture. The metal on the brush doesn't have any annoying glares. A bit better light on the right side (to minimize/eliminate the shadow of the brush and the slight grey cast to the edge of the paper) might have helped.

Overall this is a very good entry to "Secondary Colours", not much to complain here. You seem to have a liking for graphic design type shots, and you do them quite well.

Keep up the good work!

Ursula (uabresch)
Comments, questions, complaints ... feel free to contact me.

primary curves
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Comment by FranziskaLang:
A Comment From The Critique Club

Hi Wendy,

I instantly liked your image when I saw it ... the very simplistic colorful curves are beautiful. Abstract, but not too abstract to recognize what I'm looking at.

CHALLENGE - Well, you used all the primary colors, so it most definitely meets the challenge.

COMPOSITION / CONTENT - The composition is very well thought out. On the right, each of the bowl meets the edge of the photo right about at a third, which makes the image very pleasing to the eye. It's the lighting though that makes this image special because other than the rim of each of the bowls, the rest seems to disappear into darkness, almost the same color as the background, but not quite.

CAMERA WORK / TECHNICAL - The focus seems to be just a little tad off in places to me, mostly on the blue bowl. Other than that, I can really just repeat that I like your lighting setup here.

POST-PROCESSING - A little more unsharpen mask would probably help my perception of parts being out of focus, and, even though I suspect you went with the more subdued colors to match the curves, a little more "pop" to the colors would look nice IMHO.

MY OPINION - Well, I just read the comments that you got, and I think I'm all in line with the voters that commented. You have a beautiful simple image here that met the challenge very well and deservedly scored well, too. Just a couple of post-processing steps would make this image even more outstanding. Great work!

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments about this review.

Franziska.

Message edited by author 2003-05-23 17:54:10.

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Comment by wewillexplore:
Fabulous depth in the greens and oranges - I like how they are backwards in the brush - interesting! 9

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Comment by harveymorris:
I really like the fluidity of the paint line and the blending of the colors.

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Comment by Denise Catania:
cool photo...8