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11/01/2006 06:56:06 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club: I have been assigned your photo to critique and here are my thoughts:
Personal Reaction: When I first opened the photo, I said, “Hey, that’s the dinner train!” And sure enough it was. It goes by my house further up towards Woodinville. You have captured the weight of the locomotive and its power very well. The squiggly track adds realism; I can feel the train wobbling over them.
Composition: Good composition. Well planned rule of thirds placement for the locomotive. Good leading lines. The bush on the lower right balances the photo well.
Technicals: The focus is a little soft. I can find nothing in really in perfect focus. Color is perfect. I like the border, and I almost never like borders. But damn the high humidity of the northwest. It has robbed your blacks of real black. If I were editing it, I would use curves to darken the forest to the right just a little.
Conclusions: Good photo. Good subject. Well captured and presented. Why didn’t it score higher … not sure precisely but there were quite a few very good photos in this challenge. Maybe it was just lots of competition.
As always, it is my personal opinion. Feel free to disagree, or to PM me if you’d like further dialog.
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10/29/2006 10:35:24 PM |
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10/29/2006 09:54:16 AM |
| Great light. Nice colors. I wish there was a little more focus on the tracks in the foreground. You get a definite sense of the train coming at you in this picture. Nice shot. |
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10/27/2006 01:35:36 PM |
| Those waivy rails sure make me nervous. Contrast is a little too strong overall. And, did you sharpened just a little too much to make up for the rails being oof? |
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10/24/2006 07:02:41 AM |
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10/23/2006 09:04:01 PM |
| Nice shot. I like that it's not so over-saturated as many of the others seem to be. |
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10/23/2006 04:11:51 PM |
Meets Challenge - 2
Creativity - 1
Technical Stuff - 2
Overall Appeal - 1
Biased Wow - 0
Total = 6 |
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10/23/2006 03:47:27 PM |
| Nice POV. The image looks a little hazy (dust from somewhere else perhaps?). The train engine almost appears like a toy from this angle. Overall I like it. Good luck. |
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10/23/2006 05:47:27 AM |
| How do you get to this tressle to get this shot? I've taken images of this train at its base in Renton, but to see it in motion is way better. |
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10/23/2006 01:12:26 AM |
| a very crooked rail line. |
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10/23/2006 12:46:11 AM |
| great telephoto depth of field...nice |
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