Snake Eyesby
JeniYComment by Brad: Greetings from the Critique Club!
"...try to use two complementary colors to compose your photograph."
This seemed to be a very subjective challenge for those submitting as well the voters. The "intended" focus of this challenge was to photograph something with 2 opposite colors in the color wheel. This can esily be checked in most photo-editing programs by simply inverting the colors and seeing what the opposite of a certain color is.
Composition:
Your composition is simple and to the point with no distractions.
Lighting:
Your subject is well lit, and soft in manner without glaring relections, nor hotspots.
Post-Processing:
Colors are clean focus appears slightly soft, not necessarily being a bad thing though. Black levels are good and without artifacts and background items to see.
Suggestions/Improvements:
This image fell nearly dead-center in the challenge rankings, perhaps because it was so simplistic in content. 2 of any item is generally less pleasing to the eye than say 3, but in this case, 3 die would not have worked properly. I did notice the green die being slightly off-level (1.4 degrees approx). Trying to figure out what could be done to improve this is a difficult task. Too centered perhaps? Dual lighting sources? Different angle shot? It is a stock type of shot, of a rather mundane subject - dice. You met the challenge, with an average vote, in a difficult and subjective challenge. many new members on this site wish they could score a 5.5 on a second challenge.
Keep on shooting!
I hope this was useful to you Jeni, and please feel free to contact me via PM if you have any questions regarding this critique or anything else relating to the site in general.
Regards,
Brad
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