Critique Request 05 - DPChallenge Forums

08/13/2002 06:04:37 PM · #1

Greetings...

Patella

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

08/13/2002 06:18:56 PM · #2

You need to ask for more than just critiques. You need to say: "Pretend this was entered into a challenge and you're commenting on it -- what would you say?"

*wink*

It's not my favorite from the series, John, but I still dig it.

OK, my DPC comment: This is fairly dark and it looks like it's a little bit blown out in the highlights. I think I'd work a bit on the levels adjustment to lighten the shadows and bring a bit more detail into the highlights. Otherwise, a decent transition from tone to tone. I think I'd want to focus on at least the bottom tab a little perhaps to clue in the reader about what the book actually is. Maybe a title would help here too. I'm not sure how I feel about the depth of field. It focuses all the attention on the page, but again, I think I want a little more info thatn this DOF is actually giving me.

OK, out of dpc mode. Would I hang it? Probably, but then I also know what the original looks like and this loses a little in the translation.... I know that this series gave me some ideas for things I'd like to shoot in a simialr vein....

* This message has been edited by the author on 8/13/2002 6:18:19 PM.

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

08/13/2002 06:22:14 PM · #3

Originally posted by jmsetzler:
Greetings...

stephan

Casio QV-4000

08/13/2002 06:36:59 PM · #4

Looks like it was done with "Your Other Camera" ;-) i.e. very old and like a photo from the times where cameras were not so good and produced blurry images. So the photo raised a certain feel in me, which is always a good (in a DPC challenge this fact alone means that my score to the photo would be 6+ i.e. above average).
I know you did the blur on purpose, but I can't see what you wanted to say/show us with that. But the DOF is great for that matter. The subject is not too exciting. I love the lighting.

P.S. Noone who would like to comment on my outtake photo in the "Challenge Results" -> "Something Old Outtakes" ?

syamjonimi

Kodak Z740

08/13/2002 08:08:10 PM · #5

Interestingly abstract, which I always find appealing. In a challenge though I would probably give it a 4 or 5.

Shar

08/13/2002 08:27:27 PM · #6

Originally posted by syamjonimi:
Interestingly abstract, which I always find appealing. In a challenge though I would probably give it a 4 or 5.

Shar

If you find it interesting, why would you score it average or slightly below in a challenge?

Gracious

08/13/2002 08:30:13 PM · #7

Not enough detail for me, and the highlights are too blown out. What I DO like is it reminds me of my very well used Bible...(come to think of it I shoulda, coulda, woulda used my Bible for the "Something Old" challenge, had I seen this in time.) So I guess in a way this photo inspires me. I wanna run off and do it MY WAY......tehehe
I can appreciate the mystique surrounding this photo but I think it could have been accomplished without the blur.
My Updated Galleries

08/13/2002 08:36:35 PM · #8

I believe that this photo would be a completely different image without the blur and it definitely would not have the same impact on me.

If this image was completely focused, I would see a book and nothing more.

TerryGee

Canon EOS-30D

08/13/2002 08:55:55 PM · #9

It's funny, when John puts these up they usually get positive critiques, but I have a feeling that if this was in the something old challenge it would have gotten many negative comments.Many would complain about the DOF, the lighting, the contrast, etc.
By the way, is it an old dictionary? We had one like it.

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR

08/13/2002 09:05:49 PM · #10

That's part of the reason I post these... Most of these images I post are either professional images or high priced prints from somewhere else...

TerryGee

Canon EOS-30D

08/13/2002 09:13:35 PM · #11

Maybe you should let someone like me post one and see what responses i get. Do you think they would be the same?

syamjonimi

Kodak Z740

08/13/2002 09:13:44 PM · #12

Originally posted by jmsetzler:
Originally posted by syamjonimi:
[i]Interestingly abstract, which I always find appealing. In a challenge though I would probably give it a 4 or 5.

Shar

If you find it interesting, why would you score it average or slightly below in a challenge?
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It is ONLY interesting and abstract. Both of which I like. Otherwise I find this photo too much out of focus, grainy and poorly aligned, not something I would choose to put on my wall or even in a photo album. If I had taken it I would delete it from the file and forget it.

Should have said it all the first time, huh?
:>) Shar

clicker

Canon PowerShot G2

08/13/2002 09:23:44 PM · #13

Nothing about it peaks my interest. Instant delete...

MrsKro

08/13/2002 09:43:55 PM · #14

There is a definite "style" emerging here... I like all of the photos you've posted to some degree.
The fork, the flower and the book being the three I'm speaking of.

I don't think most people "see" with the same eyes that others who do this type of thing do. DPC's audience is so diverse and mostly stereotyped about what they want to see and what they don't want to see....that I don't think this would do well here. I think to be able to critique...you have to loosen up. And it may help if some of the voters would have a few drinks. :)

* This message has been edited by the author on 8/13/2002 9:47:18 PM.

myqyl

Nikon D3100

08/13/2002 09:45:01 PM · #15

This looks like one of those "really good art" shots that's over my head... Doesn't do anything for me, but I certainly wouldn't be suprised to see it in a gallary...

08/13/2002 09:45:59 PM · #16

Originally posted by KDJohnson:
There is a definite "style" emerging here... I like all of the photos you've posted to some degree.
The fork, the flower and the book being the three I'm speaking of.

The 'fork' is the only one that was my photo... the flower was a Mapplethorpe...

MrsKro

08/13/2002 09:49:48 PM · #17

Well congratulations..the Fork being the "weaker" of the three...but you are definitely seeing things John.

MrsKro

08/13/2002 09:51:58 PM · #18

And.....if I may say so...I believe you have the talent and the "eye" to go this route and do well with it.