Brown Ribbons are People, Too
by posthumous

Comment by JuliBoc:
Very creative. I like the image and the message. And your process description made me laugh.

thoughts of a walnut tree
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Comment by Ja-9:
you have the abstract part with all the converging lines, but I'm not sure about the macro...it seems like you could get much closer???

thoughts of a walnut tree
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Comment by npasel:
Funny title..good photo.

Brown Ribbons are People, Too
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Comment by Ecce_Signum:
Greetings from Andi via the Critique Club. If I critique many more of your images people will start talking Don!

First Impression: My honest first impression was WTF! I'll hold my hand up and say even though I don't speed vote I totally missed the ribbon so apologise on behalf of everybody else without your imagination. The rest of the critique is made after seeing the ribbon and knowing the crazy mind that shot this btw.

Composition: Fills the frame well but maybe pulling back a little would have helped me see the ribbon during the first viewing before focussing on the little people?

Subject:Yup, its a ribbon but of course not of the colour required by the challenge description but guess thats why you did it and titled it thus? Whilst I appreciate the work involved in creating the ickle men I'm sure you agree its not your finest work don?

Technical: Whilst I understand why you changed the bg colour it all looks a little weird and on both monitors this was viewed on I'd say the people were more Bronze/Gold than brown. Did you use F/2,8 to deliberatley keep the subjects almost oof? am guessing with them being quite soft it helped the look you were after but maybe nice and sharp would have been better?

Final thoughts: Well, its not a 'brown' ribbon for me, nor the voters ;) Even though I see the ribbon nowit doesn't do much for me photo wise but makes me chuckle so guess your work is done here.

Message edited by author 2009-08-24 18:05:47.

Yellow Magic Orchestra
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Comment by Ecce_Signum:
(Finally) Greetings from Andi via the Critique Club

First Impression: A rather tenuous title for me though I might have missed the Orchestra bit in this pic? This might never be seen hanging on somebodies wall but the more I view it the more pleasing both the colours and texture are.

Composition:At first the slighty wonky wall bothered me but its a great off centre divider between the tunnel and sign. I like the amount of tunnel, not too much and not too little - just right for me and think you'd have scored higher in the tunnel/cave challenge (even though I much prefer the image you settled on. Everything here fits well.
Subject:

Technical:At F2 you kept the 2 sides of the wall and tunnel in a nice sharp focus and let the foreground blur. Good detail in the tunnel and the overall exposure is spot on for me.

Final thoughts: Well, I like it and guess there is no need to tell you that the majority of voters were not as welcoming.

Brown Ribbons are People, Too
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Comment by bmartuch:
What could you have possibly been thinking. This was too well thought out and makes too much sense.

Brown Ribbons are People, Too
by posthumous

Comment by poser:
I got this and want one for my wall.

Brown Ribbons are People, Too
by posthumous

Comment by raish:
OK, you got it for the title. I was also hoping to get the inmates of Guanntanamo to club together for a long stretch award, but they closed it down. Shucks.

Yellow Magic Orchestra
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Comment by Ecce_Signum:
Don, this came up for a critique but can't do it tonight and it will dissapear after rollover so am leaving a comment to register and will pop back tomorrow to critique :)

Thistle Bee Good
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Comment by ionelpop:
I would have placed the flower a little more to the center of the image (on vertical).