I liked the motion and ambience you captured here. IMO, a pretty good capture. I would have cropped it to get here a bit off the center of the frame to strengthen compostion.
The title thing is subjective. I like (even as a photo editor) for a title to fill in gaps for me to tell me what is happening in the photo. At least, it should provoke me to look further into cut-line, story, etc.
Would it have scored higher with a different title? Probably not. I think I was in the minority on focusing on titles. But, that comes from my experience in journalsim.
Cropping for a stronger composition would have helped more IMO. But, voting is often on a total package. Never give the voters any reason to mark ya down, and that includes your title. See?
You got a lot of votes in the 4-5-6 range, so you have shown the voters a good technical photo. You just left them a few holes that they couldn't get past for higher votes. |