What the Duck?by
dodobirdComment by Azrifel: ~~~~Critique Club Comment~~~~
Composition (content)
Great subject placement, the sign clearly stands out in the foreground, with a nice representation of its surroundings in the background. The foreground and background relate very well.
The lighting of the sign and the surrounding area is very good. The motion blur of the passing cars has its ups and downs. The red/orange rear lights (of a truck?) are nice, they seem to add something perspective wise. But the big yellow/white streek of frontal lights that runs from the right to the left is a bit too much, it is blown out and spoils the lighting balance.
You need an assistent! :) On a serious note, someone helping here could be very useful. Either to tell you if the road is clear enough for a 10s exposure or to stop the traffic.
The use of F8 aperture has created the nice twinkling around the lights, cool touch.
I also like the angle at which you shot the sign.
Camera Work (Technical)
Good exposure, focus and sharpness.
It wouldn't have been a big problem to widen the aperture I think. Using F5.6 to go to a 5s shutter would still have had a lot of depth as a result at the same exposure value, but the influence of the cars might have been less. F4 2.5s/F2.8 1.3s/F2 .65s to blur the background would have been a possibility as well.
Digital Processing (technical)
Good natural color, good sharpness.
There is some rome left for saving the picture at a higher quality 130 of the 150kb max filesize is used.
Good balanced frame.
My opinion
Very nice.
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