Odd One Outby
starblazerComment by myqyl: ~ Critique Club Comment ~
Composition : I found it a little difficult to pick out which was the "odd" one. First glance, I thought it was the black bike in the center. Then I thought the bicycle might be the subject and wondered why the front was cut off. From your comment, I see you weren't happy with it either. The background didn't really add anything for me either.
Exposure / Lighting : There is a good range of tones and nothing is over/under-exposed. The lighting seems to lend a 1950's kind of feel to it.
Focus : The unfortunate quality setting really hurt you. The low-res pixelation makes it look out of focus even though it isn't. But you already know that, so I won't harp on it.
Post Processing : 2 post processes stand out here. The border and the de-saturation. The border was well done and added to the photo. This coming from someone that usually doesn't like borders. It was simple and clean. The de-saturation didn't work as well (to my eye). I think maybe there were too many red objects to make it effective. Also the turn signals had some red in them and the de-saturation left them kind of dirty brown. For me, de-saturation works best when you have one object (the subject) that will remain in color. Here the subject got desaturated. While this might work, I didn't feel it worked for you here.
Challenge / Wow : Certainly on target challenge-wise... It was a little too cluttered and low-res to really carry much Wow.
My opinion : Nice effort, but it suffered from the mistaken settings and lack of attention to composition.
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