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12/04/2009 05:28:59 AM |
Hey there from the Critique Club
Originally posted by 777STAN:
It was a five-second impulse. Grab camera! Without visually composing shot point toward windshield! Click! Put down camera! |
My thoughts on the image: Unfortunately, I immediately feel that this is a post-processed snapshot rather than an image that you tool time to compose and enhance with post-processing. Now I do like the watercolor feel that you processed, but over all the image has several flaws that are difficult for the standard voter to overcome.
My ideas for improvement: Clean your sensor. Even without cleaning the sensor, make sure that you remove sensor dust from any challenge entry. Every time. Take time and compose the image. This looks like a typical Georgia fall to me; a scene that I am very fond of. I love the wet asphalt, the golden grass, and the beautiful leading lines you captured. I'd just like to see it with the sky a little less exposed and some time in post-processing to enhance the captured image rather than creating a new image through processing.
Where I would have/did score this entry: I did not vote in this particular challenge, but I surely would have been one of your 3s or 4s. While this is indeed a landscape, I just lose appreciation and interest with images that are over-processed. I do like the foundation of your capture, but I'd like to see it processed more for the image that it was.
Thank you for the opportunity to provide a critique on your entry,
Eric
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12/01/2009 12:40:31 PM |
| Thank You, Pineapple! More Great & Encouraging words! I am humbled! :) |
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12/01/2009 09:10:28 AM |
Challenges are so limiting (to me as a voter). Liberated from the challenge, I can really appreciate this image greatly. I voted 4 but now out of the challenge it gives me a 9 feeling. Came back to explain and enjoy the image.
Message edited by author 2009-12-01 10:08:41. |
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11/30/2009 11:08:06 PM |
| Thank You, Malski! Your words are both encouraging and greatly appreciated! It is nice to meet many more artists on DPC! You are helping to increase the value of this photo! That means a lot! :) |
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11/30/2009 08:05:47 AM |
| I think this is a really cool shot, sorry to see it was not appreciated as much as it should have been, I love the watercolor effect. |
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11/30/2009 07:39:57 AM |
Thank You intensely, KaDi! Photographers, like you, are the reason that I am still a photographer!
I don't think I like consistently being in the score-cellar of DPC any more than anyone else would, but I have had to content myself with the fact that great artists are rarely fully appreciated in their lifetimes.
Maybe one day I, too, will be considered ahead-of-my-time. Until then I struggle as an artist, while being very grateful to capture a unique vision of the world.
Such kind words make my efforts seem more worthwhile.
Once again, Thank YOU very much! :) |
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11/30/2009 07:30:39 AM |
| So disappointed to see this at the bottom of the stack! Not surprised but still very disappointed. Keep doing what you do...some of us appreciate it! |
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11/30/2009 01:22:19 AM |
Thanks, TrevyTrev (and everyone else who wrote encouraging words about this photo!)
I knew when I posted it that it would probably be at least near the bottom, but I did it because it was an experiment that worked.
I was thrilled that the watercolor effect could be achieved naturally, and without Photo Shop!
I am first of all an Artist! Often, a Brownie must be reinterpreted as a Blue Ribbon for ART!
Sharpness is well and good in its place, but the World of ART is truly blessed by those of us who ask, "What's a Box?" ;) |
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11/30/2009 12:31:50 AM |
| But this is so delightful! |
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11/30/2009 12:27:22 AM |
| Stan, this is a cool shot not deserving of the brown imo. |
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11/29/2009 03:11:55 PM |
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11/29/2009 11:32:08 AM |
| Very nice and effective use of rain on your windshield to create this lovely watercolor like photo-painting composition. 10 |
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11/27/2009 11:13:59 PM |
| it does look like a water color...is your sensor dirty...left of center on the bottom half on the pavement??? |
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11/26/2009 08:05:42 PM |
| An interesting take I like the converging lines |
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11/25/2009 10:58:01 PM |
| Wonderful, original take on this challenge...the look the rain on glass gives is very nice! |
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11/25/2009 01:44:32 PM |
| I like how you took what could have been an ordinary photo and made it special. Nice job! |
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11/24/2009 07:58:15 PM |
| I think that the windshield-as-watercolor isn't quite working for me.I find myself wanting to see the image without the windshield in the way.. I love the composition of the shot. |
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11/23/2009 02:54:54 PM |
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