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01/28/2003 07:13:45 AM |
Hello from the Critique Club.
I'm sure you think this photo should have done better so I'll address the scoring issue first. Your score suffered from burn out (does that phrase translate out of English, I wonder). There have been several droplet phots submitted in other challenges in the past. Most recently was a photo called Blueberry splash, which got a ribbon. In this challenge I think I counted six milk splash photos. Even though the photos are randomly sorted for each voter, by the time you get to the third, you begin to get sick of them. Many voters score down for "copy cat" images, so all the splashes were at a disadvantage from the start. So why did yours place last of the spashes?
Your picture is technically excellent. The stop action is perfect, DOF is perfect, focus is perfect, lighting is perfect. But all this doesn't add up to a perfect picture. It lacks human interest. It feels like it belongs in a physics textbook.
The composition is lacking. The crown is placed in the "thirds" position but to me it is too far off center. It is the focal point of the scene, but no compositional elements lead to it or away from it to anything in the rest of the shot. It seems like two thirds of the photo is dead weight. The high droplets are a little interesting and maybe the edge of the cup looks like a planet, but neither have enough draw to justify ther inclusion in the crop. This is a phot that would benefit immensely from a different crop. Try an up and down orientation so you get the sense that the sinker started from above, sunk and splashed the milk up. Try getting rid of the black rim altogether leaving a white on white image like the more sucessful photo of the flower in the milk bath.
Probably this submission would have done better is you had spent as much time polishing it up as you did perfecting the technique. But Hey! Now you are a master at the droplet techinique and you can out splash anyone here next time. Just don't submit a milk splash for a few weeks.
Message edited by author 2003-01-29 18:32:56. |
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01/25/2003 01:38:51 AM |
| I'm totally no one used a colored milk for one of these shots... like strawberry milk to change it up some. Or how about a drop from an angle to get the splash in a different way. The composition is strong, thanks for not centering it. The shape of the cup gives it an almost sphere look. Cool! |
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01/24/2003 12:51:34 PM |
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01/24/2003 08:33:43 AM |
| Nice shot. I think that using the more of the 150 kb file size allowed may have helped this shot. I'm not positive the black and white was the answer either with the milk aready being so white. |
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01/23/2003 08:30:10 PM |
| great stop motion... but adding a colorful subject hitting the milk would give some nice contrast and interest to the shot |
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01/23/2003 02:20:45 PM |
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01/23/2003 06:09:03 AM |
| Different. Not sure if I like the black in the background. good luck |
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01/23/2003 04:46:37 AM |
| A little bit uninspiring compared to some of the other splash shots. There isn't much tonal depth, and the composition is a bit loose. A tighter crop might have been better. |
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01/23/2003 02:45:17 AM |
| Cool. It looks really surreal and moon-like to me. I don't quite understand why that edge is black without being able to see the edge of the cup, but I like it. |
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01/22/2003 09:21:15 PM |
| Great b&w. I love the 'splash' motion of the droplet. Excellent and great capture. GL |
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01/22/2003 07:58:04 PM |
| Reminds me of a moon crater!! It looks a tad bit blurry to me, but know this was a very difficult shot. |
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01/22/2003 11:45:07 AM |
| Nice stop motion. I'd like to see the splash take a bit more of the frame. Nice sharpness. Jacko. |
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01/20/2003 05:32:16 AM |
| Nice capture, nice crown. |
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01/20/2003 04:45:12 AM |
| Good stop action shot. I'm not so sure greyscale is the way to go with this image, even if milk is white. I like the white reflection. - Inspzil |
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01/19/2003 08:02:41 PM |
| Is that Skim Milk? Looks a little watery. |
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