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rookuli
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:51 pm
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Hello,
This is my first upload, critique is absolutely welcomed.
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digigandalf
Joined: 11 Jun 2005
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Location: Twinsburg, OH
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:06 pm
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You would need a model release, of course. Doubt that this one can qualify as Editorial.
Focus is not quite there. A little too soft.
The other objects in the image (small tree, half of a bench[?]) do not really contribute anything meaningful. If the focus were OK and I had a model release, I'd crop it down to concentrate on the soldier.
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akatz
Joined: 25 Jan 2012
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:08 pm
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Greetings & welcome aboard, Rookuli.
Hope you're serious about critique, 'cause you've got a couple issues here:
1) focus on the subject's soft
2) image size too small
3) subject's back to the camera makes him too uninvolved & reduces interest
4) even though his face isn't visible this would still require a model release (which I also discovered to my chagrin in this very spot not that long ago).
Keep shooting & soliciting critiques, Rook.
andy
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hhltdave5
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:10 pm
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Additionally it looks to be tilted to the right.
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matthi
Joined: 30 Sep 2010
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:12 pm
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all right and...
also you hat shot it against the sun, therefor his back is totally underexposed, instead you should have been to his left, then you would have his front in there probably correct exposed...
there must have been a lot of noise in that picture, due to the wrong exposure, you tried to eliminate with heavy use of anti noise software/filter, which would end up in a rejection for that: over filtering
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concha1a
Joined: 14 Jul 2008
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Location: Key West, Fl. USA
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:13 pm
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Focus is soft, the tree holder thing and the bench are distracting, would be better taken from the front or directly sideways of the soldier, and would need a model release.
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rookuli
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 3:23 am
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Thank you for the critiques. I know now quite a lot more about soft focus than before submitting and will try to avoid it in the future.
@matthi: scout's honour, I only color corrected it a little, no anti-noise filtering :)
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pharm
Joined: 09 Jul 2006
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Location: Never quite sure
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 11:06 am
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| hhltdave5 wrote: | | Additionally it looks to be tilted to the right. |
Agree. That's the FIRST thing that should be noticed since it's so obvious.
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rinder99
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 1:18 pm
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Here ya go.Content Aware. CS5
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matthi
Joined: 30 Sep 2010
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 4:58 am
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@matthi: scout's honour, I only color corrected it a little, no anti-noise filtering :) |
No problem mate, to me it looked like as I can´t see any texture in the darker areas, and these are normally the zones where noise is, but it´s very hard to guess where this comes from, maybe due to exposure problems you did not even got one or were you shooting in jpeg and the cam made it for you ?
Anyhow and anyway, the "problem" is never what you did BUT what it looks like...
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