Pi with an Eby
OneSweetSinComment by timj351: Critique Club critique by Tim Jensen
These kind of entries where it is a play on words really does nothing for me, to be honest. It always seems like just an attempt at being clever while avoiding the real challenge. With that being said I will critique what I do see.
It is an ordinary pie and not even a fancy one photographed from a very ordinary angle. If you are going to shoot a real pie for this challenge it needs to be shot from a real creative angle and/or use some creative lighting so that it stands out. Something needs to be done very creatively and visually so that it can make up for not really meeting the challenge. Maybe you could have tied it in with the number Pi somehow. Dot the i in Pi with it or slam it against a wall where Pi is written out or something. If it's dramatic in someway it will be a more visually entertaining photo.
It is not executed real well. The cropping is off balance by crowding the left and bottom edges and it is fairly grainy. It appears to be taken by a lower end camera and that's ok because you can't avoid that. So some things like graininess or softness are acceptable as long as you are doing all the other things right that you can control like lighting and composition.
Just keep working at it and try to get real creative with you compositions, lighting, depth of field, textures, colors, and anything else you can think of to make your images stand out. There is nothing wrong with trying to go too far and seeing what happens especially when you are already bending the rules with you subject matter.
Tim
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