Dust of Industry and Impact of Pigeonby
StemoComment by mffnqueen: Hello from the Critique Club!
I applaud you on taking the challenge topic outside of the box! This is quite an interesting image.. The dust adds such an interesting effect, almost as if the photo has been aged or mistreated. If I hadn't read your comments, I would have thought the effect was added in Photoshop or something. I agree with you that putting the powerplant in the image would have really lessened the impact (no pun intended). I obviously don't know what this would have looked like in color, but I like it in black and white, and I think that was a good choice on your part.
One thing that I notice is that there seems to be a lack of deliberate composition.. The bird is not quite center, but not far enough off center to be considered rule of thirds. I think that if it were me, I would have put the bird directly int he center of the photo and zoomed in a bit more, as the dust pattern of the tip of the bird's wing (in the upper left corner) is a bit distracting. I think making the bird larger would give it more of a dramatic, intense feel.
I like this photo as a sort of artsy shot, but I don't think it fits in well with the typical DPC challenge winner, if you know what I mean. I think this might do well in a gallery, or on a website, where it might fit in more with its surroundings, but in this particular environment, I can see why an otherwise good photo did not do exceedingly well.
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