Greetings from the Critique Club!
I like the angle you shot the sign from, you filled the frame, and it is a truncated sign so it fits the challenge, and it's that universal shade of red so everyone knows it's a stop sign. It has great detail with all those little microreflectors in the surface. So why didn't this do better?
Honestly I feel that the main problem is that there is a lot of noise visible, mostly to the left of the image. Using denoise and then sharpening is a very tricky thing to do well, because the sharpening essentially brings back the noise you tried to get rid of!
Hope this helps
Susan |