I'm usually pretty good at predicting my score and I had this shot pegged for about 6.1 to 6.2 Would welcome and comments as to what kept it from reaching that.
I gave it a five too much clutter in the way to the right, I prefer a more minimal approach, plus instantly put the word rebel in a title and I take a point off lol, don't like rebels!
I gave it a five too much clutter in the way to the right, I prefer a more minimal approach, plus instantly put the word rebel in a title and I take a point off lol, don't like rebels!
if you had a rebel you'd probably have twice as many ribbons as you do now
What's interesting to look at is all layered together lust to the left of center, so the image becomes more static than the subject wants to be. As Neat pointed out, the clutter on the right isn't helping at all. It's a pity he couldn't have been hung up mostly in the empty sky to the right of that amazing structure.
Exposure and processing are excellent. It just comes up a tad bit shy of a really excellent (and witty) skating shot.
I gave it a 6.. I really, liked this shot and love your action shots like this. The main background rocked and I liked what was behind the skater, the action part was no different, that rocked.
Two things stuck out as a distraction. 1. Like others said the tube thinggies coming out of the ground, and then the tip of that building looks like it is coming out of his shoulders. I wondered if that would have been cloned out or something if that would have made a difference in the look of the image?
Otherwise, I love the rest of the background and nice image
I gave it a five too much clutter in the way to the right, I prefer a more minimal approach, plus instantly put the word rebel in a title and I take a point off lol, don't like rebels!
if you had a rebel you'd probably have twice as many ribbons as you do now
I agree with Anita about then clutter to the right and prefering a more minimal approach with images like this. Although it is quite inetersting clutter which i quite like the shape of.
I gave it a five too much clutter in the way to the right, I prefer a more minimal approach, plus instantly put the word rebel in a title and I take a point off lol, don't like rebels!
if you had a rebel you'd probably have twice as many ribbons as you do now
I gave it a five too much clutter in the way to the right, I prefer a more minimal approach, plus instantly put the word rebel in a title and I take a point off lol, don't like rebels!
if you had a rebel you'd probably have twice as many ribbons as you do now
Sometimes less is more, maybe from a lower perspective with just that funky structure in the background would have been better.
I thought your shot was pretty cool but not great I gave it a 6. It kind of looked like you saw a no skateboarding sign and said "Hey go do a trick near that".
I gave it a five too much clutter in the way to the right, I prefer a more minimal approach, plus instantly put the word rebel in a title and I take a point off lol, don't like rebels!
if you had a rebel you'd probably have twice as many ribbons as you do now
I gave it a five too much clutter in the way to the right, I prefer a more minimal approach, plus instantly put the word rebel in a title and I take a point off lol, don't like rebels!
if you had a rebel you'd probably have twice as many ribbons as you do now
Wow I just realised you don't have any ;-)
Classy.
I guess you have to put a smiley face or "lol" after every joke, I just figure people know me by now or that with the amount of ribbons she has it would be really clear I was just being sarcastic. Oh just realized she put a smiley face.....it's all good. lol
I'm usually pretty good at predicting my score and I had this shot pegged for about 6.1 to 6.2 Would welcome and comments as to what kept it from reaching that.
IMNSHO if this would have been in and met a themed challenge, it would definitely been a 6.+.
Free Studies seem to be voted more harshly. In a birds challenge, that owl would have walked past a 7.5 in my opinion.
ETA: I liked your image and would have given it 6 or 7.
My take is that all the elements of a really good photo are all there - and they're all in the wrong places. You've got that cool structure behind him, and a huge spot to the right of it. I don't know if I like or hate the sign, but it feels very cluttered on the left side with the sign immediately below both the structure and the subject. You've also got lines going in a LOT of directions and none of them either anchor or lead the image.
This is a 5 for me in a Free Study, which means you took a decent picture that doesn't give me much more than that. If there was a theme that tied in the sign then I might have given you one more.
Without reshooting and recomposing, which I'm guessing you could have done since it's your nephew, I would have done some perspective correction to anchor the image in the frame a little better. Something like this...
I used Free Transform in Photoshop to pull the bottom left corner down and bottom right down to give you a straight line across the bottom, and upper right up and right to straighten the pylons in the background.
emphasis needed on FLIGHT and isolation of main subject would improve it. Not enough emphasis on said skater guy.
Note: this was a VERY quick edit to illustrate point.
Great stuff Jake and Tate! This is one of the few redeeming qualities left about this site....The pure, unflinching criticism you need to grow as a photographer. Thanks to everyone so far. Even Anita ;)
I found it was just too much competition for your subject. The building and the lights (I think) were just distractions. The leading foot looks a little blurry as well.
I am thinking that a shot from near the ground directly in front of the sign with the model outlined in the sky alone would have been awesome. Then again, considering my lack of ribbons, I probably shouldn't be giving advice ;-)
The tones seemed to be overwhelmingly blue without enough contrasting hues. But I felt that was unfair to hold against a good capture of action that even included humor. So I deliberately skipped it in voting.
