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01/19/2007 07:25:35 AM |
Composition: This is okay but it could be stronger. You could either focus on one building or back up and get more skyline. Because there's only a few buildings they all seem to be fighting for prominence in the shot.
B&W conversion. There are a few techniques on effective conversion. One of the simplest is desaturating the image. It is also the dullest. I would recommend googling on how to do this. With a better conversion you would get more striking tones in the picture.
The sky: The sky is somewhat overcast but I can see that there is some details in the clouds. A flat sky looks dull. A sky with lots of details in the clouds looks great. Increasing saturation before the B&W conversion would also help. Unfortunately having the sun in the middle of the shot removes a lot of the detail in the clouds as well. Recomposing and putting the sun off to the side would help compositionally and also with the lighting.
Hopefully you find my comments helpful :) |
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01/18/2007 09:50:13 PM |
It's a portrait of a city, which I think is perfectly acceptable given that "N/A" was all that was given for the challenge description. And it's a black and white picture.
It's the first time I've looked at this picture, and I've learnt something new - big buildings in New York are much narrower in depth than I imagined them to be. (And is that The Dakota in lower right?) |
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01/18/2007 08:45:47 PM |
| Hey, don't worry about it. It's a nice shot. Try to just learn from what happened and keep entering. |
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01/18/2007 08:36:15 PM |
| Sorry that I offended the masters here, I won't bother taking your time again :) |
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01/16/2007 09:19:35 PM |
okay meanies, listen up. some people on this site are:
1. new photographers who may not know even the simple lingo like the definition of 'portrait'
2. people who speak English as a second or even third language.
3. young and innocent
4. so excited about entering a picture they don't realize the exact requirements
5. worthy of gentler comments.
Please remember that you might hurt someone's feelings, causing them to put their camera down and be afraid to pick it up again.
Please, don't just harshly criticize or call someone a 'timewaster'. There's no cause for that. People are trying to learn here... |
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01/16/2007 06:40:50 PM |
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01/16/2007 03:53:53 PM |
| i don't see how this relates to the challenge |
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01/15/2007 06:58:11 PM |
Both 'Portrait' and 'Landscape' can be so loosely defined that their boundary lines are indeed blurred - I'm guilty of this as well. It helps to title it such I think, like: "Portrait of a quiet spot in a loud place." Maybe...
Anyway, it's a bit soft, but I'll chalk that up to jpeg compression. Unfortunately, the focus itself seems to be the buildings so your title seems to betray an ignorance to the challenge. If this truly is a portrait of the quiet spot, you've done an injustice to it by virtually leaving it mostly out... Perhaps I'd have been convinced if the image was mostly trees, or park bench, or sidewalk with a hint of buildings in the background.
Sorry to sound so rough! The image has its merit, just not for me in this challenge... << 4 >> |
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01/15/2007 11:19:07 AM |
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01/14/2007 12:49:11 PM |
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01/13/2007 07:43:13 PM |
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01/13/2007 12:57:26 PM |
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01/13/2007 12:49:03 PM |
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01/13/2007 11:20:21 AM |
| I can see this as a landscape shot, but not so much as a portrait? |
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01/12/2007 04:05:30 PM |
| Doesn't work for me as a portrait ... exactly WHAT is the subject? ... sorry ... 3 |
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01/12/2007 03:59:20 PM |
| whoops ... where is the portrait? |
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01/12/2007 11:49:34 AM |
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01/12/2007 06:15:01 AM |
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01/12/2007 12:10:36 AM |
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01/11/2007 09:16:46 PM |
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01/11/2007 07:03:50 PM |
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01/11/2007 05:58:23 PM |
| sorry, dont see this as a portrait, would given it at least a 5 in a in a cityscape type challenge. |
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01/11/2007 05:54:41 PM |
| It's not what I consider to be a "portrait". Sorry. |
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01/11/2007 12:25:37 PM |
| Nice photo but dmc imo - 1 |
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01/11/2007 12:07:30 PM |
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01/11/2007 08:51:37 AM |
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01/11/2007 05:06:57 AM |
| I don't get it. It's not even oriented as a portrait?? |
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01/11/2007 04:16:55 AM |
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01/10/2007 09:30:39 PM |
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01/10/2007 08:30:46 PM |
| Not related to the contest. |
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01/10/2007 08:26:05 PM |
| I don't think this is a portrait |
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01/10/2007 05:33:15 PM |
| nice city scape - wrong challenge though |
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01/10/2007 03:37:04 PM |
| DNMC. No living subject, no portrait orientation...heck not even a title to try and persuade me. |
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01/10/2007 02:08:14 PM |
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01/10/2007 01:32:13 PM |
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01/10/2007 12:15:31 PM |
| DNMC for me...a portrait? a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face |
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01/10/2007 09:08:58 AM |
| Not really getting "portrait" out of this shot. |
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01/10/2007 07:46:04 AM |
portrait
noun
1. a painting of a person's face
2. a word picture of a person's appearance and character [syn: portrayal]
3. any likeness of a person; "the photographer made excellent portraits" |
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01/10/2007 07:33:48 AM |
| Tell me - where is the portrait? |
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01/09/2007 11:53:39 PM |
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01/09/2007 07:55:37 PM |
| I think this would be classified as a landscape, not a portrait... |
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