Balloonworld
by posthumous

Comment by Louis:
There's a "pre-existing art" brou-ha-ha in the forums right now, and I'm happy to give this a 7 for its many fine qualities, including the light-hearted and child-like pre-existing art.

love triangle
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Comment by Citadel:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

As previous commenters have indicated the image is pretty soft as you probably already know. This likely due to the aggressive cropping you did. With an image like this I think you can say its just okay ...or
...work with what you have. Its a soft image. Maybe try to actually soften it even more to make it more abstract yet keeping the shapes of the birds recognizable. You could even just blur every but the birds to give the appearance of sharpness to them.

Judging from the sky it was fairly overcast though you shot at the right time or day (either early morning or just before dusk). Maybe changing the white balance would have warmed up the image making this more inviting and working with the love bird theme you were working for.

I think that to get the strong silhouette you were going for you needed to get closer so you wouldn't need to crop and your focus would have been better. To get closer and have all three birds in the frame would have required patience and a little luck.

In terms of the challenge I think this one was pretty open so your image certainly met the challenge pretty well and wasn't a shoe horn in any sense.

Fencing out the Fish
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Comment by tehben:
To dark an busy.

thoughtfully
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Comment by tnun:
The story is that he can be my doctor when he grows up.

Fencing out the Fish
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Comment by brandur:
r 5

thoughtfully
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Comment by phlover:
Wow, I can't believe the place for this photo... Actually I can, anything expected here in dpc. I think this was one of the most amazing photos in this challenge. A great example of use of soft focus and bw conversion. It was one of my few 10. Pls wear this place with honor for the people that really enjoyed it.

thoughtfully
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Comment by SaraR:
Beautifully haunting - the soft focus was essential to the success of the photo for me, at least! Massively under-appreciated.

Fencing out the Fish
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Comment by bmartuch:
Love the splatters of blue.

thoughtfully
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Comment by ltlmschrisss:
imho this doesn't really meet the challenge. I also feel like its a little on the soft side.

Fencing out the Fish
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Comment by e10icus:
I like this one. Nice shot. (Out of ordinary??)
Took a minute...
Fence in water.