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03/28/2012 09:42:10 AM · #1 |
I was pretty happy with this image when I submitted it, but apparently it didn't make a good impression, seeing as it only received a 5.2. I was thinking it would be a 6 or so.
I'm curious how it was received by others. I'm here to improve, so I want honest feedback.
Too artsy? |
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03/28/2012 02:35:44 PM · #2 |
I'm going to bump this for someone else to give you a better feedback than me...
The only thing I think may have given you a lower score is that the reflection is what looks to be your main purpose for the photo and it just wasn't "mirror-ish" if that makes sense...
Again, I am not sure why you didn't get a higher score than 5.2... I would have expected this to be around a 5.5 or 5.6... But that's just me. |
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03/28/2012 03:09:27 PM · #3 |
opinion of a "hobbyist photographer" only:
I think part of it is that it seems that you want to reflect the subject in the glasses, but the reflection is fantastically OOF. I know that's how i preceived it and i won't lie - i gave it a 4 for meeting criteria in that it contained a portion of a pair of sunglasses, but the rest was too blurred out. Background should be blurry here, but I feel this would have done better if the reflection in the lens was in focus as well. That may require physically moving closer/farther away, but it just looks like a badly angled self-portrait using a phone or p&s camera while going down a ski hill.
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03/28/2012 03:16:08 PM · #4 |
| My two cents: My immediate impression is that it looks like a partial image cropped from a wider view. There is just nothing complete to view as the subject. I agree with the other comments about the reflection - if there had been something recognizable there, maybe a bit higher score, but overall the image just looks like a fragment of something and not very interesting to me anyway. Hope that helps. |
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03/28/2012 03:24:14 PM · #5 |
Here was an outtake. Processed similarly but a different composition... now I know the reflection isn't in focus still, but I went back and forth between these two.
I kind of understand what you guys are saying about the focus of the reflection. However I think if I brought that into sharp focus, then the focal plane would be beyond the face. It would be a shot where focus stacking could be beneficial, but at the distance I was from the camera lens, any slight movements were fairly large to the image sensor. Not sure if I could have stayed still enough to change the focus and take the same shot. |
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