Hmmm, I don't know why it got such a low score, I like the composition and the smoothness, the only thing that bothers me is that the top left camera almost looks out of focus because its so smooth and the rainbow in the lense is relaly bright compared to everything else in the photo and hurts my eyes.
Black subject(s) on black background require tricky lighting so that outlines of the subject will still be visible to your viewers. I don't think you were able to accomplish that, hence the 'barely' visible comment.
Black subject(s) on black background requires tricky lighting so that outlines of the subject will still be visible to your viewers. I don't think you were able to accomplish that, hence the 'barely' visible comment.
I don't think camera equipment is very populair here (although I scored a little higher). My vote was a 5. All the equipment is not really good visible, so only the reflections in the lenses (and the commercial) remains.
The issue I see is that - Yes - there are two cameras of the same type, they are reasonable well photographed (albeit lowkey), but there is really little else. What is the story? Why would someone want to look at the photo more than for the 5 or 10 seconds they normally take to vote? It just doesn't have anything to keep interest.
Originally posted by weegi70:
i dunno, i rated this one 8... i think people expected to see some detail on the top left camera. maybe...
I had no problem seeing all the detail on my laptop monitor (which is calibrated, BTW). It is very lowkey but I thought that worked fine. Not a lot of "wow" or emotion or anything, but a nice picture, and I gave it a decent score.
One thing that i have learned recently upon getting my new LCD screen, when processing images for the web, you need to make it a few steps brighter than usual to compensate for people who use a low brightness/contrast combination on their CRT. My gf's PC is right next to mine and at times my photos look a LOT different on her CRT screen than it does on mine. But yeah getting back to this shot, on the LCD at work at the moment, i have to kinda lift my head up a bit and view it from a high angle to properly make out the nice detail which i didn't first see when i was slouching down in my chair... :)
I thought the goofy color thingies in the lenses was cool.
Apparently I did, too, from the comment I left during the challenge! Cool but not wow ... at least both words are on the good side of the evaluation scale. An interesting, identifiable reflection in the lenses might have gone far toward earning a wow, now that I ponder it.
One thing that i have learned recently upon getting my new LCD screen, when processing images for the web, you need to make it a few steps brighter than usual to compensate for people who use a low brightness/contrast combination on their CRT. My gf's PC is right next to mine and at times my photos look a LOT different on her CRT screen than it does on mine. But yeah getting back to this shot, on the LCD at work at the moment, i have to kinda lift my head up a bit and view it from a high angle to properly make out the nice detail which i didn't first see when i was slouching down in my chair... :)
Whenever I see an image that I think looks too bright or too dark I tilt the laptop screen back and forth to see if the detail is there and I'm just using the wrong angle for viewing. There have been enough times where I was "sure" highlights were blown and the detail showed up with just a slight tilt that I feel compelled to doublecheck before voting and/or commenting to that effect.
The outlines look fine to me. Don't understand "barely visible" at all.
Ok then, maybe not!?!? %&$^
I'm so confused.
It's not necessarily the calibration of your monitor that is in question. You need to consider the voter's monitor. Some voters may be using monitors on which they cannot see all the white to black gradations on the voting page.
On both monitors I use, 1 LCD and 1 CRT the outline of the cameras is very clear.
yes, I meant barely visible as in black on black. I mean, I can make out the different shades of black, but just barely. And yes, this will vary from monitor to monitor.
