Greetings from the Critique Club
by strangeghost
The first three parts of this critique are written based purely on examination of your photo. "Final thoughts" is written after reviewing your score, photographer's comments, and voter comments.
TECHNIQUE
Nice focus and oof background (but not too oof). Nice control of the tones. The blacks are really black without a loss of detail. The white of the guitar face is awfully big and bland, but there probably wasn't much detail there to begin with, so OK. Tack-sharp with detail on the shoe stitching. My only real technical beef is with the lighting, which looks pretty flat and may have been on-board flash? It's hard to suggest how this might have been better lit though. See comments in composition.
COMPOSITION
I fully realize what a tough challenge this was, with a limited selection of objects to choose from, but this composition leaves me feeling "so what?" A shoe with a feather stuck in it, another feather on a scrunchie (?) and a feather stuck in a guitar. There's no logic or purpose or excitement presented, it's all just kind of there. The unusual angle was an attempt to add some imbalance or drama, but didn't really do it for me. I like the addition of the guitar, but again, it's hard to see the logic that holds them together, other than your title, which leads me to the issue of humor. Is it funny? Well, it's got potential, but you didn't get a belly laugh out of me. My guess is that you were struggling for a response to the challenge and threw this together as a last minute entry. There were probably creative solutions that you could have found to the humor issue, but I can hardly speak to these since I (ahem) didn't enter this challenge. You know what they say about people who live in glass houses not throwing stones...
EMOTIONAL IMPACT
Nope. I don't think so. Technically excellent but emotionally ho-hum.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Your photographer's comment answers my "why" question. I was sorta correct, I guess, about your rush to get an entry together. Your final score of 5.0 is probably a bit of a disappointment, but not bad given the relative indifference of the voters (only 4 comments). Like I said at the outset, this was a tough challenge to enter, and I personally didn't even take a shot, so bravo to you for jumping in.
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