'Til I'm Blue in the Face
by nards656

Comment by GoodEnd:
Good idea! One more light source will have helped you a lot. Try to use multiple light sources to improve portraits giving you less contrast and more appealing images.

Senior
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Comment by DefyTime:
Wonderful lighting

Division
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Comment by Melethia:
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Nice score, and an addition to your top row on your profile page, no less! It's bold, bright, simple and has a nice strong diagonal. I don't really notice the blurriness you mention all that much; the texture of the wood is nice against the smoothness of the color and I suppose a bit more sharpening might have helped. I suspect it would have done better had the orange been more "orange" - it looks a little reddish on my monitor.

Division
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Comment by DanSig:
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this is a very nice abstract, but there's something that makes it uncomfortable to look at.

the proportion of red and blue are too even, there should be about 65% blue and 35% red, as red is the dominant color and takes all the attention away from the blue, using different amount of color gives more balance to the image.

and while using those proportions it gives you the chance of spliting the image to fulfil the rule of thirds.

that twig gives the image a nice feeling, makes it more alive than using something without texture to split the colors.

keep playing with colors, it really helps you being a better photographer.

Division
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Comment by sherpet:
I love this composition so very much.....I too got so many comments that my image looked red not orange so feel for you. I do believe this should have got a much higher position..... I love it so it is now in my favorites as well.....

Division
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Comment by tngrndream:
hello,

my whole problem with this one is that on my screen it almost looks red instead of orange. i almost wrote a not with this one that said dnmc.

i looked a bit more becuase i simply could not believe that this composition would not be right and thinking the "red" was a bit off, realized it was off because it wasnt red. lol.

i think ifn that orange were more orange, and it was a bit sharper you would have been much much higher.

Division
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Comment by kirsty_mcn:
ITs a nice simple idea, and I didnt even notice the red/blue thing for ages*, but the stick used as the division is a bit..well, ..boring imho. I would like to see the same idea but with something more dynamic - I'm sure I'm seen a similar design (albeit achieved in PS) with a lizard, that was used for some logo or something.

The scratches on the blue b/g detract, guess they could easily be removed outside of basic editing. The idea is simple and cool but needs something extra for that 'wow'

Hope you're feeling better anyway :)

*Yes, its very much red to me, but then again, my monitor isn't greatly calibrated itself

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Comment by Louis:
I know you've heard it already, but it really looks like red and blue. I would have gone for a pristine look on the blue portion (I think I see scratches on that surface, maybe from where you were positioning the wood). Focus is a little soft, even with USM. At lower left, I think I see a hard line of shadow beneath the wood, which kind of detracts for me. It's an interesting composition nonetheless.

Division
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Comment by Kelli:
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This is a nice image, very simple yet elegant. The wood seems to be off a little and it could be my monitor, but the colors look like red and blue to me.

'Til I'm Blue in the Face
by nards656

Comment by Shaman:
Hope that marker washed off. I really like the tight crop here. A bit more light just into the eyes to make them pop would help (IMHO).