collecting dotsby
Pipon13Comment by KiwiShotz: ::: Critique Club :::
Great fun to do a critique on your image but it is dificult if you don't give us any information in your photographers comments. When we do a critique, we go past just the photographic result, that's what voters comments do. The critique looks at what you were trying to achieve, how you wanted it to look and what issues you had in getting the image captured and ready for voting.
First Impression - the most important one:
Bright and colourful, but what is it about?
Composition:
The positioning of the bug is perfect, nicely on thirds and facing into centre of frame.
Subject:
The title you've given it probably makes it less on-challenge than the image. "Collecting dots" suggests the action of collection, but that's not what's happening in the image - so we get a little confused. Sure, the bug has a collection of dots, you could play on that. It's not a huge attachement to the challenge but it hangs in there :)
Technical (Colour and light):
The red on pink really works here being complimentary and very striking. The light's good too being even across the image and without any shadow. As with all macro work, DOF can be your enemey. It could have been a little sharper, very close to working.
Summary:
It's a cool image but I suspect what failed to light up the voters is in not getting an understanding if what it's all about. Bugs in macro are a tough task as they move out of focus so easily. To get this close and this close to sharp was good work. Am very much looking forward to your next work
Brett
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