Rogue Potatoby
ScapeshotsComment by LalliSig: Greetings from the critique club :)
Well I get assigned to one of your photos again, this is the fourth critique I give today and the first one was also someone I critiqued not too long ago, wierd huh :)
Anyway, like this shot heaps better than the one with the keyboard, it´s not even in the same league so you are definately improving, keep it up.
I don´t have much to say about the shot though so I´ll keep this short. There are a couple of things though, especially regarding the post processing.
First off, I would have liked the shadow better had it been black and not so blue toned somewhere. This would be easy to clean out in post processing by using the sponge tool set on desaturate or a channel mixer layer set to monochrome and then masked in the shadow only, something like that.
Something about the contrast/sharpening seems off to my taste, while the potato looks good, the leaves and the white that intersects with them seem sort of oversharpened, or there is too much contrast between them for my taste, like you selected everything but the potato and leaves and blasted it to white. I find it much more pleasant when you let the white area around leaves such as this peacefully bleed over to the leaves and potato, not be so sharp. Also when you whiten a backround like this, the subject always seems more contrasty than it did before whitening the backround so when I do this, totally blow out the whites, I usually set the contrast afterwards as I don´t want to over do it.
These are all just nitpickings and I think you did a pretty good job, again just keep it up.
Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
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