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01/20/2005 08:24:06 AM |
Greetings From The Critique Club!
Initial impact: ouch grainy..
Im not sure if this was done intentional or if you just lost alot during file downsizing, but the grainyness of the shot completely killed it. I would recomend you try a peice of free software colled neat image it would kill alot of the grainyness. I ran your samll image through it and it realy seemed to help I would have given it a 5 verses the two I had given in the challenge.
I suppose thats enough on the grainyness, lets more on to the meat of the shot.
Lighting; I do like the lighting in this shot the highlights and shadows are all very pleasing and in good locations.
Colors: I would like to have seen the colors a little more saturated maybe +4 to 5. I also think that the white plate on the red guitar would look better a little nicer. Beyond that the colors a very nice.
Back ground: in general the blue background would have worked fine. However for the Brokeh challenge I would have used a more intricate back ground to show the oof and blur better. Perhaps placing a guitar in the background sitting about neck llevel would have worked nice. The other part That looks ackward in this shot is the fur that the guitars are setting on. It just does not seem to have a compatable feel with the smooth glass guitars. I think placing them on a large mirror would have looked wonderfull.
Does it meet the challenge: No I don't feel it does. To be brokeh it requires an out of focus background that inhances the object of focus. Where as with this shot there is nothing the background as being out of focus. So without that it does not enhance the glass guitars.
Symetry and balance; This phot does have nice symetry and balance. My eyes flow nicely from one guitar to the next.
Well I hope you don't take the low score or my comments to badly. I am realy trying to help. I myself have had an image flop like this and score in the three's. I looked through the rest of your portfolio and I can tell you not a lousy photographer. You just didn't have much luck with this one shot... Best of luck and I look forward to seeing you in future challenges.
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01/16/2005 10:31:14 PM |
it looks as if you used an actual guitar for the background. A pretty thoughtful and unnoticed touch if it is the case. To get a more blurry background effect try placing whatever you want blurry much further behind the object in focus (in this case the blue object behind your red guitar). I don't know if your camera has manual aperture settings but if it does the larger the aperture 'A' (smaller the number) you set the easier it is to blur things. If you can't set it manually I think a trick is to use "night" mode and the camera should set itself automatically to its largest aperture thus achieving the same effect. The blur effect is often used to make your picture's main subject stand out which in turn usually makes a better photograph. Try it out you may find it to your liking! Good work!
Message edited by author 2005-01-22 08:35:26. |
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01/15/2005 11:35:20 PM |
| i appreciate your effort here, but it is really not working for me. from the image quality, i'm going to guess that you might be asking more from your camera than it is capable of. one thing to keep in mind before you submit to a challenge is whether or not your image is one that you would really want to hang on your wall. while i 'like' most of my entries, the ones that have scored higher are the ones that others would like to hang on their walls. don't let this discourage you; it is a weekly learning experience that only works if you keep on trying! good luck in future entries! |
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01/15/2005 04:13:04 PM |
| sorry, but everything is bokeh, nothing's in focus! |
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01/13/2005 05:26:31 AM |
| The colour combinations are nice but I find there is nothing in the image that suggests bokeh. In fact I don't find anything to be in particularly good focus, let alone a subject with an OOF BG. Maybe if you set it up so that the tiny glass guitar was your subject set against (not on top of - at some distance) a back drop of your full size guitar which could be completely OOF, it could work better |
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01/11/2005 06:03:31 AM |
| Very noisy and no bokeh I'm afraid. |
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01/10/2005 07:56:15 AM |
| The short definition of Bokeh from KenRockwell.com, which I am using for voting on this challenge: "Bokeh describes the rendition of out-of-focus points of light." We do see a bit of that on the glass guitar. The rest of the photo isn't in sharp enough focus to really tell. Is the subject enhanced by the bokeh of the background? To my eye the bokeh is such a minor part of a very jumbled and poorly shot image that it really doesn't even come into play. the blue background is distracting, the light from the right of the frame appears to be too hot, the black.... fur? is just weird.... This doesn't work for me. |
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