Candlelit Windowby
cpickettComment by zagman: Greetings from the Critique Club. Thank you for entering the Lighting DPChallenge.
Good try on the Candlelit Window. I guess you were trying to capture the minimal light coming from a candle on to the stain glass window. I can't tell the size of the window. It could be small in size and I can see where a candle light could brighten up the image.
The light is moslty falling on the bottom of the window. Leaving the top of the frame a bit dark. Since the light is heavy on the bottom, this makes that area blurry and devoid of details.
You have great colors here. Gold, blue, black. The middle of the middle also lacks sharpness. This takes away from the beauty of the stain glass design.
Its always risky when shooting in dim light areas. Looking at your camera settings, you might have used a higher ISO. I see that your aperture was 1.8, so you must have a relative good "prime" lens. I am not sure how much time you had to shoot this challenge, but a little more experimentation with the light source could have brought more appeal to your subject.
The most important issues in photography is light, and choice of subject. After that you have to concentrate on the actual final image. Was it sharp, blurry. Does it have appeal.
The cropping is not a bad idea. It appears that sometimes presenting a narrow cropping is not always popular. When done right cropping helps to focus on the primary subject. The other factor here, how did you optimize your image. Always try and reduce your image to as close to the 150K limit size as possible. In other words you can see a super photo on your screen, but when it is uploaded again at a lower resolution it tends to become a "lossy" file. It loses it pixels and appears blurry. Check again in your DPChallenge screen before the challenge deadline ends, in case you have to make some editing changes.
Good luck in your next DPChallenge. Zagman.
Photographer found comment helpful.
