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12/02/2005 10:28:24 AM |
Greetings: from the critique club:
Okay, the presentation or the visual impact is good because the hand position and the card fan is nice. Here you selected to go with the selective desat. The effect works well because it imparts the higher importance to the cards. The major drawback is the cheating attempt. Too much card exposed so the furtive element is missing. As a matter of fact it looks blatant. A better place for the Ace would have been down around the wrist and just peeking from the shadow area. Another consideration is to palm the Ace with your right hand and then cup the hand and bring it near the card fan. However, my object here is not to show you how to cheat but to discuss the merit of your image as a whole.
While the presentation is good I would forego the tonal framing because it takes away from the impact. The lighting is acceptable but a dark cloth on the table would really lift this image above and beyond its visual appeal. To make it work as is required softer lighting and a slightly different angle, but that would be a another image. This is not to downplay your image as is. It does speak.
I think, insofar as this challenge is concerned, you did all you can. The big danger was selecting cards. They are all over the place. You seem to have an awareness of what is required to make a good image and my suiggestion is to follow your instincts and then to play around with lighting. Even clamp lights will help. You want your images to be different and it just takes a little more work and I am sure you can do it.
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11/27/2005 05:39:25 PM |
| He must be the worst cheater in history, or the dealer is blind! Good shot anyway. |
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11/27/2005 02:44:12 PM |
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11/26/2005 06:39:22 AM |
| The cards seem a little blown out on my monitor. |
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11/23/2005 12:44:00 PM |
| nicely composed. the cards appear to be a bit peach-colored? |
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11/20/2005 11:18:14 PM |
| Very nice compostion. I'm not sure about the desat - the creamy background color of the cards doesn't really go very well with the gray scale of the rest of the picture. Perhaps a light sepia might have blended better with the cards. |
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