....in the Freedom of Our Countryby
dolphnz8Comment by Spork99: From the Critique Club
First, I think that duplicating a specific shot or technique is a valuable learning exercise and I would expect that by doing this shot, you have learned a good deal. You have executed this well, focus, exposure, post processing etc. are all spot-on.
As you can tell from the other comments, nothing about this is really very original and using this technique, especially with the US Flag, begs for comparison to one of the highest scoring photos on DPC.
Compared to John's image, yours seems like you trid to arrange and size them uniformly, rather than the more random nature of the drops in the "original". For this to work, the arrangement would need to be more precise and the drops of more uniform size. From my perspective, this lack of complete order and lack of disorder, more than anything is what detracts from your image.
If you are going to do something as cliche as this, to be really successful, you have to do it better than the original.
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