midday at the museumby
ErinMComment by Artifacts: Positives:
Well concieved and simple idea. In photography, simple and clean is GOOD! Framing with the window as the main background feature works well for the silhoutte. Technicals are good.
Technicals:
Sharpness is good, composition and framing to the rule of thirds to highlight your main silhouetted subjects are good. Including the kinetic art for balance on the left side is a nice touch and easily helps the viewer to know where the image was taken.
Edge framing is a little "ragged". The closeness of your subjects makes them hard to distinguish.
The Challenge:
Voters expect and demand only the highest quality images with significant "wow" factor in Free Study challenges to give an above average score. Yours lacks the "wow" factor voters were looking for and that is why it got a below average score from those given in that challenge, though it pretty much matches the overall DPC average score given. In others words, voters think it is an average picture.
Suggestions:
Though the framing is generally good the left edge is a little unevenly balanced against the right edge. You might consider cropping out just a little off the left side to achieve better balance with the right side.
If you could reshoot you might consider having your models stand further apart so their silhouettes are distinct and recognizable as separate individuals.
Probably the most significant thing to try to increase viewer interest and add "wow" factor is to better highlight the light rays emerging from the lower stairwell on either side of the frame. That lighting is a significant feature of the composition that is begging to be brought out more. Dodge and burn and/or specialized color post processing could be used to good effect to draw attention to that lighting and get a higher score.
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