Would like some critiques please

Best-Buy Easy Point & Click

08/09/2006 06:30:24 AM · #1

WEll, first of all. my score is what it is and I'm ok with it. But I'm curious for learning purposes where I went wrong with it. maybe its just that it's cut off at the top. maybe thats was too hard to get past as the viewer. I tried to get it to be close enough to the camera to seperate it from the background so it sort of popped and wasnt cut off . I took over 500 shots of this over a three day period. changed the lighting numerous times. spent hours and hours, and hours on it. but It wasnt working and I was Just wasting my cameras lifespan at that point so I settled. but I was wondering if that was it. or is there another reason so many people disliked it as I stayed in the 4's for most of the voting period. I knwo no one person can tell me why it got low votes. maybe you can tell me why it got YOUR low vote or would have had you voted. Please. :)

Thank you
Crystal

nordicgirl

Sony DSC-P100

08/09/2006 06:38:47 AM · #2

Hmm...didnt managed to vote on all shots in this challange and on yours neither.
Few things that comes in my mind... acctually I would like to see more of bacground setup. Also the bord in front is too straight for me, maybe in angle it would look better. Didnt you try any angle?

heathen

Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S

08/09/2006 06:46:47 AM · #3

You obviously got a ton of DNMC's. I'm still relatively new here, but I learned quickly that conceptual interpretations of challenge descriptions never do well. I think that explains why you got 40 1's, 2's, and 3's. That's way more than what this shot deserved, by the way. People that voted that low should be ashamed of themselves. It met the challenge, and you had a different take then literally everyone else. Most importantly, though, is the shot is technically sound. It doesn't have that "wow" factor that gets thrown around here so often, but there's no glaring issues with it either. Subtle changes could be applied, such as softer background lighting. Perhaps crop off a bit of the floor at the bottom of the frame.

I think your shot suffered from being outside the bounderies of the voter's expectations. Certainly, don't feel too bad about this result. You got 10 really positive comments, and of those the avg. vote was in the mid-7's. I believe you should use those stats to judge the quality of the shot.

edit: By the way, I gave you a 6, mostly because it didn't jump out at me. But I strongly believe in rewarding creativity and absolutely most importantly rewarding technical skills.

Message edited by author 2006-08-09 06:50:10.

ericwoo

Nikon Z7II

08/09/2006 06:51:45 AM · #4

Hey Crystal,
I left you a critique on the image itself. I hope it helps!

Eric

08/09/2006 06:52:15 AM · #5

Originally posted by nordicgirl:

Thanks, yeah i tried an angle several times but couldnt get all of the words to be in focus when I did that and I've read before that when your picture has words they need to all be very sharp or all be very purposely blurred so I was going for all sharp which limited what I could do wih the board quite a bit.

08/09/2006 06:56:33 AM · #6

Thanks photoheathen. I was sure the action of the arm of the board would make it meet the challenge and thats why it tooks so many takes too. I did have some with a beautiful striped arch of movement then of course there was always something else wrong with those shots. lol.