At Hell's Entranceby
SomeamateurComment by LalliSig: Greetings from the critique club :)
Well I actually think this shot is kindof cool! I completely disagree with the vote and placement it got in the challenge. I still don´t think it´s bloody brilliant but I would have wanted to see this score about a full point higher or so. These free studies are always tough...
There are several things that could have been done better though. The door for starters... It just looks so ordinary wich I do like, kind of like it´s usually a normal door and then transforms into the door to hell but still, maybe if there was something that was a bit meancing about it that could give it away to the observant. Like a cooler doorknob, that round doorknob looks so dull, if you had a black one with a crooked handle or something that would just have looked more fitting somehow.
I do like the lighting and the placement/feel of the hand. Maybe if you had drawn on the door to make it seem like the hand was being dragged in, drawn like marks so as if the fingernails had carved a path in the door, like the hand was hanging on for dear life?
This shot is promising and I like the idea, hope you don´t let the score get you down, just pay more attention to the details in a photo like this and you should be set :) For what it´s worth, I would probably have given this a 7 if I had voted and I don´t give out many of those in free studies.
Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
Photographer found comment helpful.
