This is my entry from the color portrait II challenge. I'm looking for more comments, something other than OOF. (how it was cropped or the pose for example)I knew it was going to score low, but not this low. I have worse entries that scored better than this. Thanks!
Crop IMO is dead on ... pose is super ... but (I am sorry) you probably got punished in the voting because of how OBVIOUSLY it is OOF. ALSO ... many may think that PORTRAIT means a person ... not a pet or a toy.
Crop IMO is dead on ... pose is super ... but (I am sorry) you probably got punished in the voting because of how OBVIOUSLY it is OOF. ALSO ... many may think that PORTRAIT means a person ... not a pet or a toy.
I agree that being out of focus played a MAJOR role in the score and that a portrait of an inanimate object is NOT a good choice for a portrait challenge.
That being said, I would agree with you that 3.75 is an undeserving LOW score.
The scoring is the problem, NOT the placement within the challenge or most other considerations.
DPCers score low, despite all discussion to the contrary. That has been true since the very first challenge.
The problem is as long as we, as a group, chose to give ALL images low scores then they will continue to get them, deserving or not.
I left a comment. Don't let the arguement that because its a toy you will get a bad score affect you. I have had great success with toys - Kermit in particular. But you really need to nail the technicals and have a creative presentation.
Thanks for the comments! As I mentioned in the comments area, this was 30 min before deadline. I also have poor lighting in my house, so I had a longer exposure which probably didn't help the focus. It didn't look so bad on camera, even after zooming in. I have since bought 3 lights (nothing fancy, trust me) so I'll have a re-shoot someday. I'm not much for fancy backgrounds. Maybe this summer I'll use a pond, log, or a bike. I have to get my camera fixed first.:(
The one thing I wasn't sure about was where I cropped at the bottom. I was pondering whether to keep the elbows or crop them out. The latter won.
yeah, i think it would look better without the elbows. if the elbows were there, then the bottom would have seemed a little emtpy, drawing attention away from Kermet.
