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05/27/2006 06:09:16 PM |
::: Critique Club :::
Hi, my name is Kari and from the critique club.
First Impression - the most important one:
Intesting and totally out of the box take on a portrait .. no person .. no animal ... a portrait of a ball.
Composition:
This is fine for this pic.
Subject:
Doesn't seem to be the thing for this challenge at all ....
Technical (Colour and light):
Have you applied some vignetting .. or somethng like that at the bottom and slightly up the sides or is this natural .... the sky being blown is not helping and the sharpening artifacts on the goal posts don't help either. The blue of the ball is great.
To grow its vote?:
Try putting in something like a person .. I think that may have helped .. or even an animal.
Summary:
Interesting study ... keep up the good work I know that you do.
If you've got any questions about this critique, please feel free to contact me via the PM system.
Cheers
Kari |
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05/22/2006 01:42:51 AM |
| I really don't like the background in the shot, the sky is blown out. everything is a bit too blurry and oversaturated. However the foreground is good, the ball looks very nice and the grass has an interesting look to it. |
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05/21/2006 09:32:50 PM |
Would rock if you showed some players running towards it with their foot cocked. Otherwise I think it's a little uninteresting and a bit overprocessed. Also - that building or whatever behind the goal net hurts the pic and the ball is not a typical soccer ball (black/white).
I guess I thrashed it - sorry. :( |
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05/21/2006 09:08:14 PM |
| Compositionally and conceptually strong. Seems overprocessed to me in general and especially in the BG/sky. I liked the picture quite a lot actually, but not for this challenge. |
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05/21/2006 08:46:25 PM |
Greetings from the forums,
The greens look a little too saturated (especially in back with the haloing) and I don't like the blown-out sky. But otherwise, I like the strong foreground elements and composition.
Cheers,
Justin |
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05/21/2006 08:34:17 PM |
Hi,
I did not vote on this challenge but here is what I see in your picture outside of the challenge.
If you were looking for an abandoned feel it is portrayed well in this shot. With the tall grass and dark fringe's around the bottom of the picture gives me a feel that the soccer ball is left outside, the kids are tired of playing with it and have gone on to do something else leaving the ball to deal with the elements. Emotionally it has a depressing, lonely, abandoned, and an overtaken feel to it.
The photograph technically is good. The blown sky is distracting making me think a gradulant layer may have helped.
I hope this helps and is the kind of comment you were looking for. Remember all my comments are my opinion and everyone see photographs differently.
-SDW |
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05/21/2006 07:34:52 AM |
| I like the idea but the shot is not executed well enough to bring out the different idea here! |
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05/19/2006 11:37:07 PM |
| Sorry, but I do not find this to be a portrait. This is a nice still life shot in it's environment, but in photography I think most expect to see a person or animal when it comes to portraits. At least that is how my thinking is. |
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05/18/2006 08:54:58 AM |
| Wooo! Soccer time! I don't think you needed to burn the bottom of the picture. I'm not sure what happened with the background, but it seems a but over saturated |
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05/17/2006 02:07:38 PM |
| I think the grass is a bit long, but I like how you managed to get the goal in |
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05/17/2006 04:56:38 AM |
| Good shot other than I don't consider it strong on the portrait side of things. |
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05/16/2006 01:17:34 PM |
Did you even read the challenge?
Photograph a portrait that says something about the subject within the framework of their own environment. |
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05/16/2006 09:12:37 AM |
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05/15/2006 06:00:20 PM |
| nice portrait of a ball, but it would have had more impact with a player sitting next to it... |
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05/15/2006 01:16:22 PM |
| Environmental Portrait? Where is the person for the portrait? |
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05/15/2006 06:16:51 AM |
| There's a weird color banding or something where the sky meets the trees. I like the composition but the colors and artifacting is a little offputting. |
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05/15/2006 05:25:45 AM |
| a portrait implies people. |
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05/15/2006 04:39:33 AM |
| not a portrait in my eyes |
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05/15/2006 01:56:07 AM |
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