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12/12/2003 06:23:05 AM |
From the Critique Club ...
as one Londoner to another I guess I hhave to be resonably polite. Several things strike me immediately about this shot ... in no particular order: familiarity, as I work down on the South Bank often; the fabulous look of the water - almost like ice; the false but attractive impression of speed it gives to the eye; and the size of the submission - why only 508 high? It scored pretty well, and I think would have had more impact at 640, or at least nearer to that ... unless you're allowing for those watching in 800x600, but there can't be many of them really.
There's a suspicion of a tilt to the right in the image - just the impression that the wheel is leaning over. May not actually be the case, but it looks like that. A touch distracting from the impact of the shot, for me.
I do like the composition, though it ought not to work by the "rules" - I think perhaps it does because the great weight of the surrounding buildings is kept to the lower part of the frame, allowing the height of the wheel to be emphasised against the sky - it's central, theoretically 'weak' placing horizontally is compensated for by that balance.
Hell, the size bothers me, you know. And only 50Kb too - surely, from that camera, there would have been so much more detail at max size and resolution? You could have had a ribbon there, I think ...
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12/05/2003 02:43:30 PM |
Nice clean shot which makes this look like it goes MUCH faster than it really does! A little more context would have given it more suggestion of size - or coming in closer may have been more impressive.
Still a great shot anyway. |
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12/04/2003 09:36:29 PM |
Maybe this should would have looked better had there been more of the water and reflections in the shot. There is about an inch of black at the top of the picture, moving the whole thing up a tab would have given us more of the colours in the water.
A very nice picture though, I love long exposure shots at night (Expecially such great colours as thins!)
Because of the space at the top i'm dropping 1 point, but you get a 9 from me. |
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12/02/2003 04:10:58 PM |
| Nice capture on the lights and reflections. |
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12/01/2003 10:56:52 PM |
| I like this but it needs a couple of degrees ccw for me. |
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12/01/2003 09:56:32 PM |
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11/30/2003 04:14:00 AM |
| Symbolic perhaps? If so, there are few clues that lead to know this. The image looks real enough, and has interesting colors. It is well composed and very engaging. Use of motion blur is very nicely done. The use of a cliche in the title leads me to believe that your work here is symbolic, but the point of view and presentation is very literal, so I'm just a tad confused. Still, very nice image. |
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11/30/2003 03:53:47 AM |
| Fun. I like the colorful reflections in the water, blurred by the waters movement, and of course the blurr of the wheel. I might crop in a bit more from the top and the right. Less of that dark sky would pull our attention in more. Having the wheel definitely off center creates a nice tension and I'd crop on the right rather thanthe left because I like the delicate distant lights moe than the solid gold of the building. |
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11/29/2003 07:35:14 PM |
| Looks exciting but I think I would throw up I like to keep my feet on the ground Nice image though and good lighting |
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11/29/2003 03:24:16 PM |
| One of the best night shots I have seen in a while. The motion has been captured fantastically. |
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11/29/2003 07:39:21 AM |
| Wow this makes it look so fast! Very cool! I really like the colours in this. I think a 1px keyline around the image to separate it from the border would have helped a little. 7 |
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11/29/2003 05:07:54 AM |
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11/29/2003 04:59:21 AM |
| Beautiful colours and flow of shapes. |
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11/28/2003 09:39:07 PM |
| Nice photograph. Don't think it meets the challenge that well. Give you six instead of seven. |
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11/28/2003 07:49:40 PM |
| and the shot of your life too!!!!!! Wow....fantastic lights, colors. Wonderful Is that the EYE in London? I didn't know it moved so fast..? Or was the shutter open for a long beat? Great either way...wow. |
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11/28/2003 07:38:24 PM |
| Nice concept, very real sometimes too, though a roller coaster would have more realistic, LOL A 10 |
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