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01/08/2006 10:40:44 PM |
*Critique Club*
In response to your request, here is your in depth critique from The Critique Club.
You got 20 comments during the challenge, 2 after the challenge, 8 in the thread asking for opinions and you want an in depth critique too. Not asking for much are ya. *wink* That being said, there really isn't much I can add since it seems that everyone really seemed to cover things pretty well.
Your big downfall obviously was not using the traditional meaning of 'Mother'. When a person thinks of mother, what do they think of? Moms, the person who gave birth to someone. Next I think of Step mom, god mother, fairy god mother, a physical person. Mother Nature is in there, but not high on the list. A photo of a stick wouldn't cut it for me either, but I guess technically would fall into mother nature as well.
Anyway...About the photo itself, it's a photo of a tornado. Not something you see every day for sure, and definately not something you want to get that close to EVER. So it does have interest.
I like the diagonal of the light sky meeting the dark sky and think the photo has nice balance.
Hard to judge focus since it's clouds, but the clarity is really good. I like the detail you show us in the tornado.
There are some aweful cloning marks in the bottom left corner all the way to the tip of the first downward peak. Looks like sloppy editing there.
I would also like to see more of this formation, but I wonder if that would hurt the 'balance' I talked about. I guess it would depend on your positioning and surroundings if you could have gotten a different angle or crop and if it would have worked, but definately something to try.
A neat phenomenon for sure, and only suffered for the challenge interpretation in my opinion.
~Heather~ |
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01/08/2006 07:42:23 PM |
| To get the dramatic effect into viewers, I think you need to have a wider angle to show how big the storm was. |
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01/08/2006 07:40:55 PM |
| I think your score got hit because it's a bit out of the box (I gave it a 7). But as an artistic photograph, I think it's fantastic! It has a very painterly quality with a lot of depth of tones. I'm sure it's even better in large format! |
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01/08/2006 06:54:47 PM |
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01/05/2006 10:07:35 PM |
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01/05/2006 02:49:31 PM |
| Nice storm chasing action. |
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01/05/2006 02:07:01 PM |
| Awesome in the true sense of the word! Fantastic processing - can't wait to read any notes you might have added. Love that dark, dark cloud converging with the super bright white, and then all those muddy, undefinable colors in between. Great job. |
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01/04/2006 06:06:25 PM |
| Interesting take on the challenge theme. I really like the composition. |
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01/04/2006 12:27:38 PM |
| awesome capture, and the darkness is great. |
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01/04/2006 05:15:41 AM |
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01/03/2006 04:42:47 PM |
| I think a real tornado would have been better? LOL...Just kidding. I like this depiction of the theme. A bit out of the box, but I like it when they are! |
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01/03/2006 04:19:51 PM |
| Very nice composition! The choice of subject matter is ok. Nice image quality. Has potential of being really creative. - 6 |
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01/03/2006 03:29:20 PM |
| Unusual take on the challenge but so good! |
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01/03/2006 01:16:11 PM |
| Back for comments. Very interesting capture. I would've like to see a secondary object in the scene to give a sense of scale. Unfortunately though, I don't think the "mother nature" concept will score very in this challenge. |
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01/03/2006 08:08:50 AM |
| Nice capture. I like the dramatic look, but, if possible, I think cloud shots look better when they have something else in the frame to lend a reference point. 6 |
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01/03/2006 05:05:25 AM |
| Yikes.. Did it actually form one? |
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01/03/2006 02:43:05 AM |
| Would not like to be around this Mother that for sure, good image here..... |
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01/02/2006 05:39:04 PM |
| This is so incredible. Tornado's are a facinating thing of mother nature. The lighting on the different elements of the cloud are incredible. Do you have a verticle image of this? If you could have caught a little more of the downward spiral would be incredible also. Love it. |
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01/02/2006 04:18:10 PM |
| Seems a little noisy. But what are you gonna do? There's a flippin' tornano comin'! |
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01/02/2006 10:53:07 AM |
| Nice shot...hope you weren't very close! :) |
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01/02/2006 10:38:55 AM |
| Without your very leading title this is a photo of some clouds. On its own it says nothing to me about motherhood. Honestly, even if I decided to allow the title to sway my opinion I would have problems with your interpretation of motherhood. In the end this just appears to be really desperate shoehorning to fit the challenge. |
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01/02/2006 06:59:58 AM |
| This works ... good luck with your scores :) |
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01/01/2006 07:27:16 PM |
| That's where I want to be. 10 |
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