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07/25/2015 01:16:47 AM |
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*
Congratulations on your well deserved ribbon for an excellent image that meets the challenge very well.
What a pleasure it is to be given this wonderful image, I'm sure as soon as you saw this on your monitor you thought, YES! I'm gonna love this image anyway because I love mono and I love the inclusion of people to add interest so this ticks all my boxes straight away. The execution is perfect, the exposure and the timing are both spot on.
You have a lot of enthusiastic comments and a detailed one from 'SwordandScales', whom I largely agree with he has said all the things that I feel about the image myself. Obviously, as he has not elaborated on the technical aspects, I don't know but I imagine he may be talking about having a deeper DOF to perhaps see those behind a little more clearly, particularly the man with his clenched fist to his mouth. I can see there is an argument for that but I think I prefer it just the way it is, the emphasis is well and truly on the player deep in thought about his next move. Perhaps it may be the tiny hotspots of overexposure on the faces of some of them, particularly the clenched fist character, and the background but it is so minor and preferable to what would have been a tendency towards underexposure.
I love your composition with the board and protagonists in the region of the lower right hotspot giving the rest of the frame to the onlookers who are all equally immersed in the play. You feel that this is the highlight of their day, it feels the very reason for their existence such is the intensity of it all, brilliant.
A superb study that you have every right to be proud of, well done, Sid |
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03/27/2015 09:51:27 PM |
| Great intensity. Well done on the ribbon. |
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03/27/2015 07:31:39 AM |
| Congrats! Could be an ad for Marlboro ;) |
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03/26/2015 10:44:46 PM |
Sweet shot Romil. I looked really long at this one because it looked so much like Chinatown in Honolulu.
Congrats on the ribbon! |
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03/26/2015 10:12:49 PM |
Originally posted by romil:
Originally posted by Neat:
Hey you did it, you ribboned, and I'm just thinking I could of maybe helped my the little bump, WD! |
Woohoo thanks Neat! It may have just done the trick :) if ever you come to Singapore, drinks and dinner on me! |
Ha ha too funny, we often stop into Singapore on our way to USA or Canada, so you never know :) |
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03/26/2015 08:55:23 PM |
Originally posted by LevT:
Congrats on your first ribbon Romul! Great shot, was one of my favorites |
Thank you Lev! Totally loved your image too :) |
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03/26/2015 08:54:39 PM |
Originally posted by Neat:
Hey you did it, you ribboned, and I'm just thinking I could of maybe helped my the little bump, WD! |
Woohoo thanks Neat! It may have just done the trick :) if ever you come to Singapore, drinks and dinner on me! |
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03/26/2015 08:50:23 PM |
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03/26/2015 08:15:20 PM |
Congrats on your first ribbon Romil! Great shot, was one of my favorites
Message edited by author 2015-03-27 01:24:20. |
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03/26/2015 08:02:45 PM |
| Hey you did it, you ribboned, and I'm just thinking I could of maybe helped my the little bump, WD! |
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03/26/2015 07:09:20 PM |
| Interesting to see how many are so interested in this game, bumping up! |
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03/26/2015 06:09:00 PM |
| Lots of interesting faces. Nicely done. |
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03/26/2015 04:08:43 PM |
| you can feel the tension of the moment! |
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03/24/2015 06:26:39 PM |
| Very nice candid shot. They are all so engrossed in the game. |
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03/23/2015 01:55:39 PM |
| Two masters at work, not including yourself. Very nice! |
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03/23/2015 04:12:46 AM |
Truly, an excellent street shot. What gives it away as a winner is that fact that many of us recognize this scene, but probably rarely see it, particularly outside of fiction (film). What's beautiful is that we have so many players in a two man game. There's obviously the two competitors, at it so intensely they have probably forgotten the crowd behind them. Then there is this classic, smug character sitting right next to them, and his buddy not far off, looking on with far more humility and curiosity. It's all so evident right there in the faces of your subjects. Beyond that, we have a crowd, interacting on its own levels, even in the shadows, conversation grows.
Absolutely wonderful photography, although, I gave you a 9 and not a 10, reason being that the technical aspects could be a tad better. So close to perfect, and the winner for this competition in my opinion. Just classic. |
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03/22/2015 08:57:26 PM |
| There's some serious intensity there! Not a soul seems to have noticed you. |
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03/22/2015 04:38:28 PM |
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03/20/2015 05:08:36 AM |
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