Handling painby
odradekComment by LalliSig: Greetings from the critique club :)
Well first off, welcome to DPC, not a bad start to your career here. I do like the shot and would probably have given it a 6. It´s well lit, or rather I should say nice choice of lighting, I often use just windof light myself and I really like it. The DOF is good and I also like the cool WB, it gives off that extra sense that this is taken in a clinical setting as a hospital. The tape on the hand is a nice touch. I also like the composition.
To gripe a little bit, I don´t really think this meets the challenge all that well though, I don´t really see any extreme emotion but I would have given you the benefit of the doubt, frankly I can say the same about my shot too so there you go.
Also, even though I like the negative space composition, I still would have cropped just about 5-10% off the left side as that dark spot at the edge there is bothering me just a bit and draws too much of my attention.
Oh one more thing, I would really watch out for blown highlights in your DPC submissions in the future, the voters usually REALLY hate them and rank down just for that. I personally don´t mind but thought I´d mention it, voters here can be very anal about blown highlights.
Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
