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02/25/2010 10:10:56 AM |
Greetings from the Critique Club
First Impressions:
WHITE. My eyes are immediately drawn to the bright white area on the upper left.
Technical (Comp, lighting, color, focus, Processing):
The composition seems quite cluttered, the price to pay for shooting in the forest I suppose. The problem I see is that your main subject is one of the last things I get to as my eyes are drawn away from it at first. Perhaps a different angle on this would work better, something that really draws my eyes to the main subject.
The lighting on the snow and sky is beautiful. You can still see all of the branches and it has an almost dreamy feel to it. The problem is the lighting on your main subject is dull and you loose a lot of detail in the shadows. Being a basic editing challenge I’m not sure what you could do to change that. If it was advanced I would suggest shooting 2 separate exposures so you can keep the nice light on the snow but also bring out the detail on the tree.
The focus seems quite soft, which I personally like on the snow but I would like the tree to be a bit sharper. Perhaps lowering your f-stop to sharpen the tree more and blur the background more. This would sharpen the tree and also draw my eyes to it more and the background would not compete as much for my attention.
Challenge:
Meets the challenge well and I like your creative take on the subject.
Artistic/Emotion:
Good creative take on the challenge.
Summary:
I like your view on this and with a few improvements this could be a good shot. The majority of your votes came in at a 5 and to me that says that it was a decent shot with a few technical errors but it just didn’t really leave much of an impact on the voters. Stick with it and continue to submit to challenges, you have a good eye for it and you will continue to improve.
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02/21/2010 02:49:05 PM |
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02/20/2010 01:26:33 PM |
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02/19/2010 12:41:08 PM |
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02/17/2010 08:32:25 PM |
| This is a perfect discription of this winter....only this has more color....I like it! |
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