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04/04/2010 03:23:21 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club!
First Impression: Oh my blurry goodness!
Meeting the Challenge: A bit of weakness here, as my attention is immediately drawn away from the truck, and drawn to the couple.
Composition: The composition is nice, with a lower left - upper right diagonal emphasis on the subjects. A very beautiful place to photograph, with the bending trees overhead, and the green, green grass in the foreground.
Subject: Very fun subject, we all love a nice love story.
Technical: Oh, man. Well, in some aspects you've done very well, the lighting does look good here (and that's hard under these conditions, with patchy ambient lighting!), but I can see the softbox's reflection in the truck, and it really does distract just a little from the lines of the vehicle. I'm wondering if you had an issue with your post processing, I own a 20D, and that's a sharp camera, so I know this shouldn't be blurry like it is, I suspect you may have compressed this too much, or done something odd during resizing.. Then again, I can absolutely see from your portfolio that you sometimes favor a blurry processing, so if this is intentional, you have certainly succeeded..
Final thoughts: An image with lots of 1950's charm. There is an instant connection to the couple, and you are visually drawn to them. As for your score, it would have been much higher if the blurriness issue wasn't there, and might have been improved by getting the couple to go for a walk ;).. In any case, a really good concept that I'm sure the client was very happy with... |
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03/30/2010 02:45:49 PM |
| Great shot, comp and colors, too bad its oof. 5 |
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03/30/2010 06:43:59 AM |
| This pic makes bubble-gum oldies ring in my head. Nice idea. A little OOF, intentional? I would have made it a tighter crop. |
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03/29/2010 09:22:05 PM |
| This is a great story teller and a beautiful truck! it is too bad that you couldn't achieve a focus point. I don't think that the whole image needed to be in focus but in general I think photographs look better when a key element is in focus. (no vote) |
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03/29/2010 08:52:54 AM |
| Good setup, staging, and lighting...I would have scored highger if focus was more tuned in...almost looks like a resolution/file size issue, and not your fault though. Good pic. |
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03/28/2010 02:48:14 PM |
| Pretty truck, too bad it wasn't in focus. |
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03/28/2010 07:27:23 AM |
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03/28/2010 04:58:15 AM |
| Cute. I just wish it a bit more focused. |
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03/27/2010 12:10:19 PM |
| wow - ready to 10 this one except my eyes got crossed waiting for it to focus. guess this is meant to be "soft focus" but somehow a tad overdone? great try. 7 |
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03/26/2010 09:30:06 AM |
| I think a bigger aperture would have been a lot effective here. The couple ends up detracting from this picture (even though I am sure they were added to make the picture more interesting) because they are out of focus. |
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03/25/2010 03:28:08 PM |
Great Truck!
Your file size is large, but the image seems to have suffered badly from compression. Perhaps take a look at some of the resizing tutorials around.
A slight horizon correction would help as well, I feel the image is leaning a little down to the left. |
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03/24/2010 06:14:17 PM |
| I couldn't find anything to focus on, which may have been intentional, but just didn't work for me here. |
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03/24/2010 09:22:36 AM |
| I generally like the image. It has good colors, a pleasing composition, and the addition of the human element is a nice touch. It all seems slighty soft or out of focus, however. I suspect this is not how the image really was, but that it occurred somewhere in your processing of the image. |
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03/24/2010 04:04:22 AM |
Technical error
photo is not clear,
but the composition and the models position is good . |
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03/23/2010 09:45:01 PM |
| Everything is nice except one important thing. It is not in focus. |
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