The Cow Parade in Atlanta
by gisele

Comment by kiwiness:
Funny statue :-) The background is a little busy however and takes my attention away from your main subject somewhat. Maybe a different shooting angle or shallower DOF to blur out the background would have taken care of that.

welcome to georgia
by gisele

Comment by FranziskaLang:
A Comment From The Critique Club

Hi Gisele, welcome to DPChallenge :)

My first reaction upon seeing your photo was a surprise of seeing peanuts. . . I'd heard of the Georgia peach but not that Georgia is also famous for its peanuts. You learn something new every day! But your photo does meet the challenge, having something typical from the state in it and a typical postcard slogan, too.

COMPOSITION / CONTENT - I like how you have arranged the peanuts in the basket with the cloth or napkin and how you cropped it. That part of your photo has a nice dynamic feeling because of it. The napkin goes perfectly with the background. I don't quite understand why the clock is there (but then, I also didn't know the reason for the peanuts), so I can't really comment on the fact that it is included in the photo. For me, it seems a bit out of place, not connected with the peanuts, but that might just be the missing context. I don't like the angle and crop on the clock so much. The tip is missing, and because it is such a little bit that's missing it looks a little accidental. Due to the angle you took the photograph from (from higher up), the clock also doesn't seem quite straight, which is very apparent when it is right at the edge of the photo.

CAMERA WORK / TECHNICAL - The image is nicely focused and the DOF is good, too. There are no heavy shadows (barely any shadows at all), which works well for a setup postcard. Overall, I seem to detect a little yellow tinge to the photo, that might be due to the light you used. Playing around with your whitebalance on your camera before you take the picture or desaturating yellow a bit in post-processing might alleviate this.

POST-PROCESSING - The font and size of text that you added is nice, personally, I would've considered splitting it up into two lines and moving it to the right so it doesn't overlay the clock. Also play around a bit with the levels and hues to make the image "pop" a little more, right now the colors look just a tad flat (that's always a drawback of that nice even lighting).

Overall, I agree with the comments you got ... a nice change from all the landscape postcards. Playing around with the post-processing a little more would probably improve the photo further.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments about this review.

Franziska.