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01/03/2006 12:26:59 AM |
After looking thru your BetterPhoto gallery I'm not so sure I should be the one giving the critique -- simply outstanding photos there. But, I drew the image, so I will give it a shot.
A vivid and bright image -- it is not surprising it gathered a lot of attention during voting with 3 favorites, 15 comments and a top 20% finish. There are a few reasons why I feel it placed as well as could be expected in the challenge though.
The bright sunlight served with two edges by giving enough light to use a shutter speed fast enough to stop the motion completely. This added to the vivid sharpness of the image, but also produced deep harsh shadows that had to be dealt with. You did a marvelous job of handing the light in selecting a moment to take the image when her face was not heavily shadowed.
Compositionally I feel a number of things hurt this image, the most noticable for me is that she is looking behind her, out of the frame. This pulls my attention heavily out of the image to the right and leaves the left 1/3 of the image unobserved. There is just nothing there but the background foot to balance the pull out of the frame. And while I'm speaking of the background, those feet (especially the leg coming out of her head) are quite distracting, and it would have been better to have waited until they were gone. This being a candid that may not have been possible, but they detract from the image just the same.
Her eyes are the biggest detraction from the image though (and I'm certain others will disagree with this), because they do not involve me as a viewer. It would have been welcome to have had a sense of interaction with the scene by involving her eyes within the frame.
In post-processing it seems to have been oversharpened just a bit (there are halos in a few places, mainly around her arm) and could have handled a bit less saturation (but that is heavily a matter of taste).
I feel the reception of this image in the challenge suffered further by the use of a relatively large depth of field. While it is small enough to include only the subject, it is not prominant enough to isolate the subject from the rest of the image. There is good seperation between the childs head and the background, but that seperation is lost most everywhere else.
Once again I enjoyed browsing your portfolio at BetterPhoto and was not surprised to see you praise Librodo's work in the comments you've made -- his influence is very evident in your own work. Wonderful work.
David
Critique Club
Message edited by author 2006-01-03 06:29:15. |
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12/31/2005 06:53:36 AM |
| i love the crispiness and the colors and the expression. should definitly have ranked higher. definitly. |
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12/28/2005 02:09:13 AM |
| This is such a sweet shot with the baby sleeping in her arms. |
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12/27/2005 10:37:48 AM |
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12/26/2005 08:02:17 PM |
| It is a shame you can't see a little more of the babies face, but still a very well taken strong image....... |
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12/26/2005 09:12:54 AM |
| nice expression, and great capture of those eyes. But my eyes keep going to that foot just about to come down. |
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12/23/2005 04:35:33 PM |
| The shot is excellent, the colors are amazing, great contrast, nice DOF, I hate those feets in the background, I wish it had even shallower DOF, 9 |
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12/22/2005 05:07:42 PM |
| The children are so sweet. Good DoF. |
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12/22/2005 08:50:00 AM |
| Superb shot. DOF isn't very shallow (the whole of the girl in blue is in focus) but it is still very good. |
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12/22/2005 01:57:14 AM |
| I would bet this ends uop among top 10. To bad that al these pics look the same.... But the quality is there .7 |
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12/22/2005 01:30:51 AM |
| Heartwrenching image, I know this all too well from my part of the world, however..they always seem happy and always smile to you no matter what! I love moments like this and with tose feet in the background a perfect shallow dof.. |
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12/21/2005 07:52:40 PM |
| Very sweet picture. Great colors, DOF and subject. Nicely done. |
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12/21/2005 07:51:13 PM |
| my only other 9 in this challenge so far..that speaks for itself |
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12/21/2005 07:28:09 AM |
| As I say previously, I am a little bit tired of seeing the same kinf of picture. It looks very nice, but I hope this picture will not be a winner. Place a l'innovation. 6 |
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12/21/2005 05:23:16 AM |
| Love the vivid colors and the sleeping babe. What beautiful children. The blurred foot in the background really grounds this shot for me. Great image. |
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12/21/2005 05:23:02 AM |
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