Yellow Zeroby
karmatComment by FranziskaLang: A Comment From The Critique Club
Hi Karma!
My first impression was 'cool'. I liked the simplicity of the photo and the strong colors. Plus, I like corn, yummy. :)
Intuitively, I would've probably moved the corn to the right of the frame so, but I actually like your composition better. This way, you look immediately at the front of the corn, which was obviously the focal point for this challenge. I like that the corn is just a little bit at an angle.
The background is nice and black, except for right in front of the corn, you can see the texture of your background there. Maybe a less reflective surface, like a sheet of black cardboard could have avoided that. I do like it being so uncluttered and your use of negative space works well here.
You were obviously playing around with shallow DOF (a phase that I seem to be going through right now, too). I like the idea, but to be honest, I don't think it quite works for this photo. The right side of the corn is focused wonderfully, but not all of the cut is in focus, and that's a little distracting to me. I understand though that this is a trade off. Either increase DOF, have some of the cut OOF or move the corn so that the cut is parallel to the plane of the camera, and that would've destroyed your composition. I think a tad more DOF would be the answer, you would still have the soft blurring on the end of the corn, which, by the way, I like a lot.
As for your post-processing, I can't see anything obvious, so whatever you did, you did well. The borders that you have added also enhance the photo nicely.
Your photo meets the challenge ... the number zero. It could be argued that this one was man-made (or woman-made as the case may be) because you cut the corn that way, but none of the commenters mentioned that, so it's probably just me being picky.
Overall, I liked the shot, I think there are a couple of things that you could improve on (focus and the background), focus being the more important one of them. I think that's reflected in both the comments you got and your score. Regardless, this is a great shot that's also possible to recreate with different background and greater DOF would you feel so inclined. I think I might have to do more vegetable shots, there are wonderful things to be done with them ... thanks for the inspiration and keep up the good work :)
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments about this review.
Franziska.
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