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12/17/2005 06:43:50 AM |
from the back room of the Critique Club
I think the basic idea here is good - for the challenge, of course; it might have been better, in a purely compositional way, had you been able to get the reflection of that flower without having the actual flower in shot - but given the convexity of the spoon that's terribly difficult.
Two things I think promarily hurt this one: firstly the composition, your framing of the image: either you've allowed too much negative space image right, of simply haven't managed to get the angle on the spoon - the diagonal line is always a very strong compositional element (look at som many of the recent studio shot winners) - but this has drifted too far off that line to really work.
The second thing is the quality of the image itself. It doesn't have the clarity, the level of fine detail that winning shots here have. Now this certainly isn't down to your camera - we all know how precise the 350 can be - so i think it must be in your processing. I couldn't really say which part of the process has caused the problem - perhaps the 'clarifiying' step - these automatic actions are designed to work with Joe Punter's photographs of their holidays - ratherthan a naturally high-contrast image like this, and that may have pushed the tonality of the spoon into the funny slightly blobky feeling it has here. perhaps it's your re-sizing process, I don't know. It could also be your sharpening - looking along the nearer edge of the fork, there is that tell-tale line of white that looks generated rather than natural, and that could well be a sharpening thing. At the risk of teaching grandmothers etc., I'd suggest using setting something like radius:0.6, amount:100, clipping:5 for sharpening, and making it the last thing you do in your processing - the miss-use of it is so often a cause for detail problems in people's work, and I remember the impact on my own stuff when i realised you could set the radius below 1; but like I said, I don't know that that's actually the issue.
HTH
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12/09/2005 09:36:12 PM |
| A very nice effect and well captured. |
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12/09/2005 08:55:10 AM |
| Wow!! Realism (the actual flower) to Surrealistic modernism (the reflection) A great imaginative photo and very good execution. If this doesn't make it to ribbon it should at least be in the top five. For creativity alone ! Well done. |
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12/07/2005 11:33:59 PM |
| Interesting reflection, I like how it goes all the way to the tips of the forks. |
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12/06/2005 03:52:37 PM |
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12/06/2005 11:22:40 AM |
| Not bad, but lacks something... |
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12/06/2005 12:25:01 AM |
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12/05/2005 11:01:18 PM |
| i think it would be better if you couldn't see the flower itself but just in the reflection... |
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12/05/2005 12:51:35 PM |
| Very cool. So crisp and clean. A winner for sure |
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12/05/2005 10:34:34 AM |
| Very nice. Like the idea and the composition. Good Luck |
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12/05/2005 05:26:09 AM |
| clean sharp image and the reflection is striking, beautiful daisy as well, should be in the top ten |
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12/05/2005 12:40:37 AM |
Don't you hate it when you forget to check your title only to find out after the challenge starts that you have terribly screwed it up. ;)
As for the photo itself, I can't imaging why there would ever be a flower on a fork. Seems way out of place to me. the reflection is ok. i wish the background were just a bit darker. There is a shadow from the flower in the background just above the fork, and a bit of texture in the blackness in the lower left corner. Focus is alright on the fork and the flower. ~Heather~ |
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