Leaf Wraps Rock, Rock Breaks Fingers, Rock Winsby
Zed PobreComment by Zed Pobre: Thanks to sabphoto for the most useful comments.
Some additional notes:
I wrote up a
post-mortem on this entry with more detail on what I learned and what I should have entered, but there were a few things I should note about some of the comments that were made.
The shot wasn't originally of the rock itself, but of someone setting up the rock to take a picture of it. I was contemplating concepts that might work for my first DPChallenge submission and ended up choosing that photo and one other for having interesting rocks, then picked the colorful rock over the other shot that was technically much superior, but seemed more commonplace:
I liked that the hands were blurry because it fit the general idea of dodging a dropped rock (rock breaks fingers). Same with the floating fingers. Even if I had wanted to go with full hands, I wouldn't have had much room to move, though: the area to the left of the rock was very distracting, and the camera was visible just off the right side of the crop. I could have added room above or below, but there wasn't anything interesting. Thus, I also couldn't get up any larger. The shot just wasn't close enough.
Because I never ended up comparing the shot at the proper resolution to others I've taken (the thumbnail looked okay, and although it did look off when I viewed it full screen, I originally attributed that just to scaling), I didn't realize how bad it was. I thought it was just a touch on the off side until I actually saw it in place, and by then it was too late.
Also, we really do get bright mud and rocks in Louisiana. One person actually uses some of the muds mixed with egg as pigment for his paintings.
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