The Good Egg (1939 )by
gaurawaComment by shavenwalrus: Greetings from the Critique Club.
I love this shot. The simplicity of the finished product belies the technical brilliance of the setup, which is probably why some scored it low.
The exposure for me (at least on my monitor) is just right and gives just the right amount of 'suggestion' of an egg without being too obvious. I love the way that the egg on the top right merges in with the white background.
The lighting is great with just enough shadow on the egg. Any more and it would have been too harsh, any less and it would have 'lost' the egg in the whiteness.
Good use of thirds and uses the extra white space to draw the eye to the subject. I could look at this all day.
The only thing I can say that I don't like is the title. Seems to me that many people scored others low on this challenge if they didn't know the movie title or it wasn't a famous movie. Also, many entrants took a shot of whatever and then trawled through IMDB trying to find a movie to match, which I suspect is what happened here.
That's a shame because I think this scored much, much lower than it should have for those reasons.
One last thing. People like to see the EXIF data which is missing here.
Message edited by author 2005-01-25 19:27:15. 
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