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12/20/2004 04:51:26 PM · #1 |
I really didn't want to start a thread to extract critiques on my broken challenge entry but I was really expecting some after-challenge critiques to pop up on the photo, but nothing so far.
I thought my photo was really great and by coincidence it also seemed to meet the challenge. What are your opinions on this photo (apart from the challenge)...don't boost my ego, just help me improve!
Much thanks!
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12/20/2004 05:06:56 PM · #2 |
I do like it for it's starkness, and kind of hyper-reality portrayal, but a lot of people on this site tend to shy away from really bright pictures. The fact that it is such a stark images in contrasting highlights and shadows is probably what set people off. And I know art should't be judged by weather it's pleasing to the eye or not, but by if it evokes a response in it's viewer, but the sad reality is that people don't want to look at a picture of a sewar. At to that the fact that the sewar takes up the majority of the shot and not, the wrecked car as is the intened subject....
It does achieve the point of the challenge, however, and as I said I LIKE the starkness of it. If I had voted, I would have voted it high. 7 or 8.
Message edited by author 2004-12-20 17:08:43.
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12/20/2004 05:19:04 PM · #3 |
Hi Mike - Like you say in a roundabout way, you liked this but your not certain how other people here would react. I have had the same feelings about some of my entries in the past, strange that one of my highest was one of my least favourites and sometimes it works the other way, I get a good feeling about an entry and then - bang! - it falls on its face in the challenge.
Your image appealed to me and I did vote it quite highly. A lot of voters on this site only like sharp photos, in colour and nothing too involved!
When it all comes down to it there is nothing wrong with your photo, as I said I like it quite a lot but it's not what I would call a Great photo.
Mike
Message edited by author 2004-12-20 17:50:55.
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12/20/2004 05:28:28 PM · #4 |
Mike,
I really like the photo the lighting really captured the emotion of the event and really pulled you in. The photo is very powerfull and the message is very clear.
I gave you a 9 in the challenge.
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12/20/2004 05:31:45 PM · #5 |
| I liked it and gave it an 8. I'm not sure what others didn't like about it. I've noticed that voters on this site tend not to give high scores to emotive subjects unless they are "pretty". |
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12/20/2004 05:41:03 PM · #6 |
commented on pic. i didn't make any claims about what i would or wouldn't have voted it, since that's not what you asked (and i didn't vote on this one anyways). hope my comments help, although they may just reiterate what you already knew.
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12/20/2004 06:36:49 PM · #7 |
Thank you very very much for all of your comments...I appreciate them all but I ask just one more small favor in regards to this photo. How would you have photographed this differently (not for popular appeal, but for a better photograph)
1) at the time of exposure?
2) in post-processing?
What angle? How would you change the exposure? Depth of field? What else?
Taken just before the original:
To provide some context:
I have already indicated that I feel I severely overexposed the photo and I might also wish I would have gotten it while the van was in the middle of being towed out...
Message edited by author 2004-12-20 18:38:06. |
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12/20/2004 07:00:30 PM · #8 |
not sure about exposure - whatever the camera indicates is probably what i would've done (and then reviewed in camera to double-check). i think i prefer the angle on the photo you posted as having taken right before the one you submitted to the challenge.. and, like you mentioned, i think if you had caught a similar angle but when they were actually towing the vehicle out, it could have conveyed the message even more effectively. considering what you were given to work with (dull lighting, dull environment), i'm not sure i know what else to throw in (perhaps leveling the horizon, but perhaps not since a picture-perfect world obviously isn't what this photo is all about)
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