Blueberriesby
assmanComment by myqyl: Critique Club Comment
Composition : I like the composition quite a bit. The berries on the table looks quite natural.
Exposure/Lighting : I notice you shot F3.5 at 1/2 second which implies to me that you didn't have much light here. You may want to get hold of a portable light source and experiment with it a bit.
Focus : Your choice of a shallow Depth of Field didn't work for me. It looks focused more on the back of the container then on any berries.
Post Processing : I'm certain that you had your reasons for going Black&White on a challenge for Blue, but I'm not certain it worked to your benefit. It was risky and I have to applaud your courage, but I think the score here would have been
MUCH higher for "Blue" blue berries.
Emotion/Challenge : I struggled with whether this shot met the challenge for sometime when I was voting. I finally decided to give it to you since I believe you wanted folks to think blue instead of merely see blue.... This kind of thinking can be the sign of a true artist. But you'll need to get your technique down better for folks to see what you are saying without being distracted by how you say it.
Opinion : While I'm not a big fan of this shot, I do applaud your vision and think that once you get over a few technical issues, you'll be doing some exciting things :)
