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05/05/2007 02:27:49 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club -
There are a couple of things that I do like about this image. I like the background bokeh. It has a smooth paint like feel to it and just feels nice. I also like the simplicity of the image. You met the challenge with both the bulb and the off shooting stems falling into the crosshairs of thirds. I think the score you recieved is pretty much fair for the image. because of these two aspects.
I think more could have been done in postprocess. to help bump this up a bit. The subject seems a bit soft in sharpness. By your description it sounds like the only editing done was adding the frame. I almost always use an Unsharp Mask after resizing my images. 95/.5/1 are the settings that I find work best for me in giving my resized image that bit of sharpness back that seems to get lost in resizing. A slight tweak in levels to bring out some of the shadows on th ebulb or to tweak the blacks a bit could have also given the bulb more body. And maybe just a slight tweak in saturation to make the color a bit stronger may have been nice.
And thick borders can be tricky, especially when using color as you did. I try real hard to use the eyedropped tool on the color I want form inside the pic when choosing border color to make sure I have the proper complmenting color. Your border color feels a bit dark in relation to the colors in your image.
Now please let me say that these are just my suggestions based on the types of images that I prefer and how I would edit it based on my tastes alone. I think you scored where it should have against the images that were in the challenge. These types of challenges tend to be along the lines of a Free Study and to get the higher scores you really need an image with strong power and impact.
Hope some of this helps.
Tim |
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05/01/2007 09:36:45 PM |
| i like this shot a lot..very simple. i just wished the subject was a little more sharp. |
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04/25/2007 04:19:06 AM |
| very good DOF and color. meeting challenge very well |
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