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Challenge: Motivational Poster II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Sony DSLR-A100
Lens: Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha
Location: Greenough Western Australia
Date: Sep 1, 2007
Aperture: F5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250 sec
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: Sep 1, 2007
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The trees near Greenough, South of Geraldton WA, are continually buffeted by winds from one direction. This causes them to grow leaning over.
Converted from raw, cropped, levels, selective colour layers for greens, blues and whites, merged visible layers, noise ninja, resized, usm run twice, cloned out dark patches on edges of tree, added text, merged visible, resized to final size, added border using canvas size, saved for web. |
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12/23/2007 07:07:03 PM |
| I agree with routerguy's suggestions: good idea and text overall, and lower angle and higher contrast would've improved this. I'd also suggest trying it in B&W. |
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09/15/2007 10:21:00 AM |
Critique Club feedback -
This shot had all the elements of a high scoring motivational poster, but a few things held it back.
The image itself is great and well composed. It almost screams 'slap some text on me and let's make a poster!'. It really needs increased contrast to get the tree to pop out of the rest of the scene. Also shooting this from a lower point of view so that the tree itself would be framed entirely by sky rather than by the horizon split would also give it more weight.
The phrase you chose works very well with the imagery. The layout of the text and the font used are also nice.
I think people had a fairly concrete notion of what these posters should look like as far as font and overall graphical design, and this poster is very different from that standard. That is probably the largest reason this didn't score higher.
Nonetheless, a very creative and well designed poster. If you choose to follow the herd-think next time this challenge pops, you will no doubt be a top contender.
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09/13/2007 02:27:06 PM |
| this should have rated higher |
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09/09/2007 02:19:28 AM |
| Great subject, good poster. |
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09/08/2007 02:11:57 PM |
Nice, some sats and haze reduction would have helped the image.
Text could have been more 3D for imact |
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09/06/2007 09:32:05 PM |
| that is pretty cool! I think the image could stand to be a bit darker- it seems very flat. 6 |
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09/05/2007 06:59:08 PM |
| what a wonderful tree, and perfect saying to go with it. 8 |
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09/05/2007 12:44:39 PM |
| Great idea for a motivational poster. Maybe try this shot again but at a different time of day to give it more dramatic lighting. |
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09/04/2007 05:13:29 PM |
| wow...what a fantastic tree. Perfect phrase for this wonderful image!! |
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09/04/2007 09:09:12 AM |
| The colors are a bit soft, but the image is perfect for your quote. |
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09/04/2007 05:07:54 AM |
| This is the best idea I've seen so far but the photo is a little gray and flat:( But fantastic tree!:D |
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09/03/2007 10:29:33 PM |
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09/03/2007 07:46:15 AM |
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09/03/2007 05:26:06 AM |
| well composed but image is too pale overall. message and picture go very well together. |
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