Like the idea here. Would have been better if it looked like both were actually trying to push the rock, instead of leaning onto it.
Space would have been quite dark, and hence the bright overexposed background. Did you use flash on this. It may have helped light the people, especially the women on the right who is very dark, and then maybe the back wouldn't be so overdone and distracting.
I would have liked you to include the feet, rather than cropping the photo off at ankle height.
This would have been better, except for an excessive amount of JPEG artifacts showing. Your file size of 43k is really small. There are lots of compression artifacts showing and an overall lack of detail. Check your compression settings when you save your file. Always adjust JPEG compression so that your file size is as large as possible, but within the challenge limit. (150k for this one)
I'm wishing the sky wasn't so washed out. But otherwise very well done. I like the texture on the walls a lot. Only other gripe, is you chopped their feet off. Small gripe at that. I gave you an 8.
If you had used more of the 150kb maximum file size, the compression artifact would probably not have been so noticeable. I'd like to have seen a little more detail in the shadows, a little fill light would have gone a long ways here. I like the way you placed your subjects in the lower part of the frame, it emphasizes the size of the rock. Might have been better not to cut their feet off though.
Nice attempt at the subject matter, better facial expression showing the models pushing hard would have made it better. Yes these objects would be immovable but the models just look like their stretching (especially with the female holding what looks like a small camera in her hand).
Reminds me of a sci-fi movie with walls moving toward each other, which is probably what you intended! I wish the feet weren't cut off but a good idea otherwise.
CJ
Great use of nature to fill this challenge! A few nitpicks though, the exposure does not work for me, try to expose for the bright background and use fill flash to light the subjects; also if your concept is that the walls are closing in, the subjects should act the part - as is they look too posed and unnatural.
This is excellent. Over-exposing this background whether intentionally or necessary created a great effect of eliminating any distractions. Great photo
your models don't look like they are really trying to stop themselves being crushed (as the title implies).. they just look like they are feeling the walls, and look a bit bored.. better expressions and really pushing against the walls would have made this shot work better i feel..
Good shot, the composition could have been better. There are severe blocky artifacts around the silhouettes of the actors, possibly suggesting a bad compression (during JPEG conversion). Lacks technical depth.
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