Greeting from the Critique Club...
Nice approach to providing the viewer with one of the necessities in life that we don't always see. I believe you are using Dante as the subject and not the shearers due to the crop that you have presented us.
Given the situation that you mentioned in your description the lighting and detail is quite nice. The story you are telling doesn't appear to bad a sad one as Dante does not appear to be fussing about.
In general I would have liked to see just a little (just a tad) more of the hands on right and a lot less of the gentlemen on the left. The amount of white from the gentlemans tee-shirt adds an uneven balance to the natural colors that otherwise fill the frame.
As always, when doing a critique, I will download the shot and while perserving what the shooter originally intended, try different things that I might have done and/or to back my observations.
To ease out some of the white on the left of the frame, I tried a 6x4 crop starting just below the stain on the gentleman's sleeve. For me this accomplished several things, the most obvious being a lot less of the white tee shirt, the stain on the sleeve a small but evidant distraction, the dark area (gentleman's black pants) all but removed from the frame and finally places the subjects eye on the bottom left third of the frame.
The only other thing that I might have done, would be to do a tad bit of Dodging of the eye and just below the nose to bring out Dante's expression a bit.
As to sharpness I will always say a bit more sharpness but realize that softness comes a lot of the time from resizing the image. When submit to challenges my last step after the resize is to sharpen one final time.
A very nice shot, highly fitting of the challenge. Great job.
Andy
ED: to note a strange coincidence... Today (after critiquing this in the morning) I went down to Old Town San Diego to shoot the Mormon Infantry celebration... Long story short they had an Alpaca there that was trimmed up nicely as the one you have in this shot. Not to common a a sight in San Diego...
Message edited by author 2006-02-25 20:35:50. |
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