Greetings from the critique club :)
Let me start off by saying for me it doesn´t really meet the challenge, the photo itself has no action going on, for me the challenge meant to take a photo of some kind of jump where something or someone was in mid air and also the title doesn´t help in this regard since balance really implies that the person in the photo isn´t about to jump but rather standing still and not trying to fall down, a jump the farthest thing from his mind.
Technically it´s a nice photo, well lit with the expection of the slight blown out highlights on the stone you are standing on. Composition is nice also, I like that you can just see the legs and you cut off the right leg just above the knee. The left leg though bothers me a bit, think I would have liked it better if it were either totally out of the frame or more in it, the foot being there too. I like the backround and the shallow DOF, I see you did that in the post processing and you could have fooled me, I am usually quick to spot fake lens blur but here it didn´t even occur to me till I saw the camera used and the photographers comments. I like the colours, contrast and sharpening and think you did a nice job with the post processing.
Mainly because of the non jump factor in this challenge I can honestly say I would have voted it a 4. If this was a balance challenge I would have given it a 6 since it´s technically nice but doesn´t have that wow factor, 6 is something I give to above average photos that miss that certain "wow factor". I can at least certainly understand the low score but I think it´s solely because of DNMC votes.
Kind regards from Iceland, Larus. |
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