I'm very curious if people believe 'Shattered Skyy' would have been received worse or better than my entry "get cool" :) ... or any of the others, for that matter ....
These are my blue outtakes. My entry was the Bluescape landscape picture which was likely too boring, although it was my personal favorite due to composition, emotional tone (serene) and color.
Do you think any of these was much better? My this week's challenges are really doing bad. I think I may start submitting my third choice next week!!
Maybe this week I'll get mine done before Sat and get some friend opinions. There's a nice guy on another site that is really great to help me evaluate my shots, as I obviously don't do that great with them. I messed up a bit on photojournalism even though I got a pretty high score and placement, would likely have been in the top ten with just a crop and if I knew how to adjust levels to brighten it up a bit.
I don't have outakes to show, but I have taken the comments I got, and tried acting on them. I have put my attempts here. I very much doubt that any of them would have got me a significantly higher score, but I found it an interesting exercise.
Here is my blue alternate, that unfortunately I could not post due to time constraints (I got it taken in time, but didn't get it editted in time.) PS2alternate
I think this would've done better than 157th or whatever I ended up.
I don't have outakes to show, but I have taken the comments I got, and tried acting on them. I have put my attempts here. I very much doubt that any of them would have got me a significantly higher score, but I found it an interesting exercise.
nice treatment of the logo .. would make a good ad shot :)
Originally posted by inspzil:
Here is my blue alternate, that unfortunately I could not post due to time constraints (I got it taken in time, but didn't get it editted in time.) PS2alternate
I think this would've done better than 157th or whatever I ended up.
i like 'retake 12 alternative crop' the best. it's the most interesting compositional representation of a pretty straightforward object. for shots like this, i recommend doing things to make your light source more diffuse and less point-source. ie bounce it off a large white thing ontho the object, OR put a sheet in front of it (the light), not right in front of it, but a foot or more. that will really broaden and soften the light and let you get the scene brighter without burning hot spots.
i like 'retake 12 alternative crop' the best. it's the most interesting compositional representation of a pretty straightforward object. for shots like this, i recommend doing things to make your light source more diffuse and less point-source. ie bounce it off a large white thing ontho the object, OR put a sheet in front of it (the light), not right in front of it, but a foot or more. that will really broaden and soften the light and let you get the scene brighter without burning hot spots.
I ask and it happens...cool
here's the one I did of yours payneki...diffuse. It is high contrast though, and not too good...
I think you should sharpen yours a touch(boy am I picky)
