Resized, ran through neatimage, adjusted color saturation, brightness contrast, and added border.
I know that this shot has many flaws and isn't necessarily the best quality but I love the capture of the flame and the smoke coming out the end of the gun. I'm not expecting this shot to do real well, I will be happy if my score breaks a 5.
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Initial thoughts/My opinion Oh, what happened here: looks like an enlarged thumbnail. Lot of action, but to be honest: I don't like guns.
Content/Composition I don't want to address my disliking of guns here, because that completely my personal taste.
You captured of course a moment of great action: there is almost nothing having more action in the sense of speed, sound etc. than a firing gun. Also that you captured the gunfire and the smoke is very well done: how many shots did it take to get it right?
The way you presented the scenery is well made too: the way you cropped it is well thought out and the balance between the sky and ground is good. Also having the gun horizontally is good.
Camera work -technically Exposure seems OK although the man's shirt is a little bright, but it adds to the mood of the image. Regarding the focus I can not say much due to the extremely low quality.
Digital Processing - Technical Of course I have not seen the original, you probably needed to crop out a small section out of it. However, the image is simply dominated by digital artefacts coming from need image and maybe from the jpeg compression. A smaller size might have been better here or a strong artistic filter might have helped to overcome the technical shortcomings.
BTW: I really would love to see the original to see if there couldn't be another approach to increase its quality.
I didn't vote low on this because of the gun! I did vote low on this because it's not very much in focus (Not even the parts that aren't moving) and in fact it looks like a capture from a video...
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I like the idea, "The action" of a rifle. The execution is not as good as the idea. Extremely pixelated. I think it would be better to see the rifleman's face as well.
The image quality is rather low here. I"m not sure if this has been over-processed in a neat-image type program or if it has been cropped too much or some other problem has come up, but there really is hardly any detail available here at all, and it is a problem.
This is a good idea, and excellent timing on your part. You might want to get a better camera though...the compression and artifacts really detract from this. Great take on the challenge though
Looks like you put some texture on top of the image and it doesn't do it for me. Great timing, nice to see the flames coming out of the barrel. I would have done less "photo-shopping" on this one (given that the original was good enough, you can't really tell how the original quality of the shot is.
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