Kung Fu Woody
by william88

Comment by violet:
Love this!!! beautiful place for martial arts!!!!
Good job.

Asahi in Rainforest
by william88

Comment by rananculus:
greetings from the critique club

Congratulations on a fine shot and high finish. You planned, you set up, and you executed well. Your idea was creative and was deservedly received well. I'm sure that you knew that you had a strong submission when you entered it. You leave me with a difficult critique!

I find it interesting that the Beer or Softdrink Advertisement was a baic editing challenge when the advertising world is all about post production. The most obvious technical flaw of the frame being the hot spots created on the bottles from your remote flash. That flash made the raindrop effect work, but gave you a problem on the subject itself. A simple post-production fix, but not available to you. A flash difusion technique could very well have reduced the glare, but then you would have certainly lost the drama of the rain and of course the magic of the particular rain drops that that are bouncing off the bottles. Interesting delema.

I imagine that the first thing that the editor at the agency representing Asahi might scold you about would be "why is there so much negative space to the right of the subject". "Where am I supposed to put the text?". And he would be right. There is too much space to the right that does not benefit the subject. You can find your answer in the rule of thirds. Your subject is two bottles of beer. Put the exact center of your subject right on the exact right third vertical line and bingo....your your subject composition falls in perfect alignment to what the human eye expects.

I've had psychologists trying to explain to me why the rule of thirds is so magicle. I still don't get it. I do know that I don't even have to take off my shoes to count the number of times I have broken the rule to a positive result.

My last comment is compositional as well. More jungle! I might have tried (without blocking the labels in any way) to create more of an effect of that these bottles were an actual product of the plant. Like I could just go and pick one. Might be a nice effect.

Very nice work! You get an 8 from me!!

russ

Message edited by author 2006-10-17 08:29:02.

Kung Fu Woody
by william88

Comment by ho0joker:
That's unfair! the other woody should have been the same size :)

Asahi in Rainforest
by william88

Comment by william88:
graphicfunk, Thank you very much for the comment.

Kung Fu Woody
by william88

Comment by Ann:
Very funny!

Kung Fu Woody
by william88

Comment by mcrochip:
Wow... this is actually making me dizzy. Cool idea and execution, but it's a little high on the motion for me.

Kung Fu Woody
by william88

Comment by posthumous:
You have perfectly recreated the spirit not of reality but of an insane Kung Fu movie direct from Hong Kong, which is much more interesting. 10

Kung Fu Woody
by william88

Comment by KHolt:
great fun image. Did you break the arm, I'm guessing it is just cloned out, I like how the shadow is altered as well. Some strange outlines around the arm, that I can't figure out.

Kung Fu Woody
by william88

Comment by photoslik1967:
Perfect. I vote a 10. Great job.

Kung Fu Woody
by william88

Comment by noraneko:
The concept is great, but the smaller woody looks like he was pasted in, maybe because of too much sharpening?