DPChallenge: A Digital Photography Contest You are not logged in. (log in or register
 
Challenge Entries
Portfolio Images
This image is not part of a public portfolio.
Star Light Express
Star Light Express
donpram


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Magazine Cover (Classic Editing)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ1
Location: Bej, PRC
Date: Jun 7, 2003
Galleries: Sky, Snapshot
Date Uploaded: Jun 7, 2003

Not a London Play, simply a journal of lightings

Statistics
Place: 113 out of 232
Avg (all users): 5.4077
Avg (commenters): 6.1000
Avg (participants): 5.2832
Avg (non-participants): 5.5250
Views since voting: 1346
Votes: 233
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0


Please log in or register to add your comments!

AuthorThread
06/23/2003 03:11:22 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club
By Inspzil

Composition - Interesting abstract type shot. Definitely has some appeal as a more modern art type piece with a nice focal point and the blackness broken up with little dots of light. There are 2 problems with this picture IMO. I think with this kind of photo, are you at any disadvantage to get it into portrait format, which would be more conducive to magazine covers in general? And secondly, this picture looks like an illustration as much or more than it looks like a photograph. There are no reference points to indicate what is up or down, left or right, so why not put it portrait? you could flip or rotate all you like legally to achieve this quite simply.

Technically - This is very sharp and well taken. I like that some of the light circles are overexposed, but not all of them. This was good technique used with this photo and favorable angles to accomplish the partial overexposures.

Overall - I don't know this magazine. I'm not sure what the cover would even look like. This is a cool picture. You almost have to sell people into believing its a photograph. Flipping it portrait would've been a logical thing to do, since the greater majority of magazines that I know of are in portrait format. Very interesting image that has a lot of appeal, but maybe not the greatest for this challenge. Good luck with future challenges. - Bob
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/17/2003 05:55:37 PM
VERY cool! What is that? A ceiling? Looks wonderful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/17/2003 02:23:16 AM
It's a bit busy for a magazine cover
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/14/2003 07:42:51 PM
Neat picture!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/13/2003 12:41:46 AM
Never heard of this magazine. But this is a great picture. Good job I love it. Please describe how you did it!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/12/2003 08:09:26 PM
I cannot find any indication on if your magazine really exists.

It's hard to judge from the title if this would be an apt magazine cover; the title appears to describe the image.

The image, while visually interesting, is without context for me given the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/11/2003 10:52:38 PM
I'm not sure what I'm looking at but this is intriguing. I hope you'll discuss it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/11/2003 03:40:19 PM
Intriguing photo, but I don't see how it fits the contest theme.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/11/2003 03:37:03 PM
Personally I do not consider magazines to be in a horizontal shape... thats just me though. I have no clue what the theme of Star Light Express Magazine is... I can't seem to find it on Yahoo. I'm not doubting that it's a real magazine, it's just I have no way to judge whether your photo would be good for the cover or not. Sorry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/11/2003 02:37:15 AM
Interesting piece. 8.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/11/2003 01:20:42 AM
Would be perfect if it were not landscape.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


Home - Challenges - Community - League - Photos - Cameras - Lenses - Learn - Prints! - Help - Terms of Use - Privacy - Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2024 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 04/25/2024 03:42:54 PM EDT.