*Critique Club*
I already commented during the challenge (I personally don't feel that the grain adds to this image... to bad there isn't a bike between the one you have the cool perspective of the seat on and the others... drawing them all together... While I like that you took a different perspective... getting down to fill the frame more, and not leaving all of the empty space might have been nice.) but I will try to expand on that... although I may be repetitive.
Does it fit the challenge? Yes because there is grain... however as I mentioned before I do not feel that the grain adds to this image, and in fact I think it kind of messes it up. When I was judging the grain challenge, I was really looking for images that benefitted by the addition of grain, and were made better by it.
On to specifics...
Composition wise, I like what you were going for here... the lines draw your eyes around the bikes, so that you can see each one of them. The perspective you have is excellent, although as I mentioned, I really wish there was another bike between the one you have a closeup of and the rest of the bikes in the row.
This looks like some difficult lighting... were you using a flash? The only reason I ask is that the seat of the one nearest you is so blown out, and it looks like that could be a reflection of the flast near the bottom just to the left of center. I guess now looking at your shutter speed, I'm doubting you used a flash... so why the blown out seat when everything else looks pretty well exposed? Was there a light directly above you? If so you should have taken that into consideration... being aware of where your light sources are can be a big help in photography.
I think it might have been good to crop out the top... getting rid of the lights and especially the blue tv (upper left) that tend to distract my eyes from the subjects. This also might have been taken care of with my suggestion of getting down more to fill the frame more with the first bike and not leaving all of the extra space.
Overall, I really like the subjects, I would suggest going back and playing around with it if possible... take different angles on it, try different lighting... have some fun.
-Talya |
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