Street Photography In Color!
by howie733

Comment by macrothing:


Critique Club Critique

First Impressions
Certainly quite a 'gay' image. There's a street sign, it's very colorful, your title reinforces the Challenge - I guess you made it over the line. However, there's not much interest in it for me to hold my attention.

Photograph Information, Technicals & Composition Review
I see you've selected the Humor gallery for this and I imagine many folk find this an amusing image, however it doesn't have that appeal for me. Composition wise, especially for this Challenge, it seems too 'squashed' into the frame. More street, more pose, more context would likely have allowed other elements to come into play more and create more interest and story. The image also looks like it may benefit from straightening.

Comments, Score & Placement Review
59/135 is pretty good for this Challenge and the score of 5.28 seems about average. Your commenters all seem to like it and enjoy the frivolity of the image.

Summary
Cropped this close the colors clash a little in my opinion and I can't help but imagine a richer scene out of the frame. It's a moment captured, but the character looks like he has more of a story than this crop is allowing to be told.

Street Photography In Color!
by howie733

Comment by Rasai:
Wow a Street named after him... "Maynard"

In God We Trust
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Comment by Ecce_Signum:
Greetings from the Critique Club Howard.

First off I like your idea, the composition is very good and O personally like the fact there are 3 elements to the image. I'm slightly confused by the depth of field looking at your exif data but quite like the fact that the sharpest part of the image is the message you were trying to convey. Chromatic aberration was mentioned in your comments and think this is an exposure issue? You don't show your editing steps but it looks to me as if you overused the shadow/highlight function in CS3 (or similar).

Was the paper white? I quite like the fact the paper colour merges with the coins here. I didn't vote in this challenge but would probably have skipped past it with a 5 as (for me) it doesn't grab my attention.

Good luck with your future challenges here at dpc.

Street Photography In Color!
by howie733

Comment by bcenu:
Good take. Like the low angle.

Street Photography In Color!
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Comment by bvy:
Yes. Had to be in color. Great joy in this one.

Street Photography In Color!
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Comment by npasel:
She looks sooo happy!

Street Photography In Color!
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Comment by Iraklis:
Fun shot : )

In God We Trust
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Comment by DJWoodward:
Challenge Relevance:6 Impact/Emotion/Mood:5.5 Technicals:6 Processing:5.5 Creativity:5.5

In God We Trust
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Comment by scooter97:
I'm not sure what to think about this. 3 different objects to look at is maybe too many.

In God We Trust
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Comment by DrAchoo:
Your poor lens is letting your shot down. Lots of chromatic aberration at the edges.