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Urban Chaos
Urban Chaos
keyz


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Challenge: Graffiti (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G
Location: Old warehouse
Date: Jan 23, 2010
Aperture: f1.4
ISO: 1250
Shutter: 1/640
Date Uploaded: Jan 23, 2010

Shot from an famous desert warehouse in Grenoble.
Every piece of wall is painted ... hard to find the good one.
I wanted to put the background the most blurry as possible ... but I had to make a choice between framing and distance with the portrait.

Statistics
Place: 54 out of 128
Avg (all users): 5.5291
Avg (commenters): 6.5000
Avg (participants): 4.9400
Avg (non-participants): 5.7179
Views since voting: 742
Views during voting: 333
Votes: 206
Comments: 3
Favorites: 0


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AuthorThread
02/04/2010 05:18:21 AM
GREETINGS FROM THE CRITIQUE CLUB

Another fun image from you. I enjoyed looking at it in all its detail.

You received a nice middling score on this image, and here I am to try to give you some impressions on how to (perhaps) make it better.

First, I wonder if zeroing in on the 'action' would make this more lively. There is a lot of scene-setting going on with the dark wall above the main subject. When I played around with your image on my own computer temporarily, I found that taking this down to just the foreground post and the orange-on-white background lettering make both more important graffiti features. then just a little touch of levels to give everything a pop and accent that foreground shadow gave this a new look.

But every viewer has different thoughts. The idea is to appeal to the voters quickly so your image doesn't get lost in the voting.

My suggestion would be to get lots of pictures from lots of angles, then experiment again and again to visualize the best presentation. you're already good at this.

Good luck in your next Challenge. I hope this critique was helpful in some small way.

Alice
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/28/2010 12:02:57 PM
Something is missing from this scene imo. Pretty nice shot though! 7
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01/28/2010 07:18:51 AM
I really like the composition here, I know you've used a deep DOF to get both elements in focus here, but I reckon this might have looked even cooler with just the foreground in sharp focus and the BG a blur. You could probably have got away with bumping up the saturation a bit too.
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