Well someone did have the brilliant idea to try just that ...some 20 yrs ago I think! They really did try to do just that. They gave up (quit) and so the present owners have resumed storing hay and straw in the loft.
pp: RAW conversion, crop, curves, brightness/contrast, curves again, saturation, warming filter, shadows/highlight, resize, usm, sharpen edges 1x, save for web
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This is starting to get weird now! I'm wondering if anybody else is ever going to crop in my queue. I think this is my 6 critique for you in the last few weeks.
I wrote a big long critique and then my machine got stuck and I needed to reboot, so just lost it all.
I am going to start this critique by asking you, a fellow critique club member, how you would critique this image?
I have a couple of questions about it. When you entered this into the I Quit challenge, did you really think it actually met the challenge, or did you think that you could squeeze it in with the title? (I'm assuming you did think it met the challenge or your would not have entered it) Do you yourself like it? What score would you give it in light of the challenge topic?
I ask the questions, just as a pre-amble to my critique, because my words may sound harsh, but I think if you put this up for critique, then you want real feedback and not just platitudes.
Technically this image is lacking. The exposure is off, it lacks contrast and the colours are washed out. Some of these things could have been fixed in camera by using the correct exposure, but a lot could be done in post processing since the highlights and shadows are not clipped. I'd be very interested to see the original file, as you have listed a whole bunch of editing steps, but I am not sure what those have done to this one. It may have been a good idea to boost the ISO to 400, it may have given you a faster shutter speed which in turn may have made the image a bit sharper. Even with VR 1/30 is quite a slow shutter speed and could easily give you a bit of camera shake. Typically anything lower than 1/60 is going to cause some kind of camera shake.
Coming back to the concept. I'm afraid to say I see this as a real shoe horn for this challenge. The image itself does not really portray quitting, it relies on the title to link it to the challenge topic. You were far from the only person to do that. I think this was a really difficult challenge, so kudos for giving it a go.
Susan, I'm sorry if this critique sounds harsh, it's not meant to be and I certainly do not want to discourage you. Having critiqued so many of your images just recently, I would just like to help you a little bit.
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