My glass guitarby
tolovemoonComment by tristalisk: Greetings From The Critique Club!
Initial impact: ouch grainy..
Im not sure if this was done intentional or if you just lost alot during file downsizing, but the grainyness of the shot completely killed it. I would recomend you try a peice of free software colled neat image it would kill alot of the grainyness. I ran your samll image through it and it realy seemed to help I would have given it a 5 verses the two I had given in the challenge.
I suppose thats enough on the grainyness, lets more on to the meat of the shot.
Lighting; I do like the lighting in this shot the highlights and shadows are all very pleasing and in good locations.
Colors: I would like to have seen the colors a little more saturated maybe +4 to 5. I also think that the white plate on the red guitar would look better a little nicer. Beyond that the colors a very nice.
Back ground: in general the blue background would have worked fine. However for the Brokeh challenge I would have used a more intricate back ground to show the oof and blur better. Perhaps placing a guitar in the background sitting about neck llevel would have worked nice. The other part That looks ackward in this shot is the fur that the guitars are setting on. It just does not seem to have a compatable feel with the smooth glass guitars. I think placing them on a large mirror would have looked wonderfull.
Does it meet the challenge: No I don't feel it does. To be brokeh it requires an out of focus background that inhances the object of focus. Where as with this shot there is nothing the background as being out of focus. So without that it does not enhance the glass guitars.
Symetry and balance; This phot does have nice symetry and balance. My eyes flow nicely from one guitar to the next.
Well I hope you don't take the low score or my comments to badly. I am realy trying to help. I myself have had an image flop like this and score in the three's. I looked through the rest of your portfolio and I can tell you not a lousy photographer. You just didn't have much luck with this one shot... Best of luck and I look forward to seeing you in future challenges.
Tristalisk
