Taken on rainy day with grey skies - no cloud defenition. Cropping, Monochrome, Sepia toning to let the white stand out more. White balance on Cloudy.
Metering = Spot,
-1 2/3 Exposure compensation.
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Hi Carl,
I like the title and the image is a unique take on this challange & fits well. I like the placement of the elements & the image seems to be in focus. With that being said for me the over all image just seems a little bland to me. Imho there are three things that stuck me instantly. 1) The over all image just seems a bit featureless, A bit more detail in the trees & ground cover would have helped a great deal here. 2) The tonality of the over all image seems very clumped, everything just seems to blend together this inclueds the person kneeling. 3) The sky, it just kept competeting for my eye, this was a direct result of the blending around your main subject & through out the image too contrasty for me. Over all this image has great potential it had that erie feeling of ventureing into the unknown & was well framed. With a few adjustments this image could be dynomite.
Interesting take on the challenge. I like the brown colouring. However, the person seems to blend into the background a bit too much. OWuld have liked them to be a little more prominent, maybe by being slightly brighter, and a little more contrast in the overall scene. Many of the crosses and details in the dirt blend in a little too much, and that reduces the effect
I like how your trying to tell a story and that you aren't scared to put in something as provocative as this.
Composition is good and I like how you got the hill and subject and sky in the image.
The image is let down though by the tone used and the burnt out sky. Its very hard to see straight off that the person is in a graveyard.
Please keep entering challenges as you obviously like to try something different which will help you stand out.
I appreciate creativity, but the challenge calls for someone moving an object. Would the object be her and the someone be God or visa versa. Tenous.
Also, would recommend making sure the image speaks to the challenge itself without the benefit of a title. I look for a metaphor, seems others do not, so this may help your scoring.
I think that a different camera angle and composition would help to bring out the emotive value here. I'd move in a bit, compose so that the foreground cross and the human with his cross were the only things in shot. Then the agony and desperation on the face may be seen more.
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