Over sharpened? Didn't sharpen at all -- actually despeckled a bit to try to soften some of the jaggies. This is just a sub-megapixel camera shot.
Bigger kite in frame? Could have. Didn't want to. This was about letting the viewer fly the kite. I mean, come on, if you're out flying a kite, do you fly it two feet over your head or do you let out ALL the string? Not only that, I wanted this to feel like the kite had room to fly around in the shot.
Crisper, more focused kite string? Like I said, I wanted this to feel like you'd feel if you were there flying the kite. Kite string in the foreground simply isn't going to be in focus in your visual field if you're looking at the kite. On top of that, kite string vibrates in the wind, making it hard to capture crisply. On top of THAT, this is a zoom shot, there's a lot more kite string in this shot than it looks like -- that also does things to your depth of field that are just not possible (or at least extremely hard) to control.
Other than these areas, I don't really know how to respond about having an ugly kite (personally I dig it) or using white kite string (if someone can tell me where to find black kite string, I'll give it a shot) or how this doesn't meet the challenge (in my book, this is from the perspective of the ground up).
i would have had this as one of my top three if you could have gottne a low angle shot of the person flying th ekite with the kite in the background! Beautiful sky works for you..just needed that extra dimension of the kite flyer.
if i'd had a kite i would have done this...this is a wonderful shot but i can't give it a higher score because my interpretation of the challenge theme is actually having the camera on the ground and i can't be sure of that from this pic...but i like it!
If you weren't stopped all the way down, I'd have gone for an even faster shutter speed to freeze the string at the bottom. I'm sure it was humming pretty good, and it might not have been possible. The line higher up and the edges on the kite are pretty jaggy, but overall well composed and exposed, and having the string lead all the way up to the kite was a great choice.
This is very nice! Only thing that could make this shot any better would be some more depth of field to bring more of the kite cord into focus. Good work!
This is very unique. I know that some might say it would be better if it were anlged more to the left. I don't think so myself. I like it just the way it is.
Great shot, I've been wanting to do one like this for a long time, but haven't had the opportunity. A closer zoom of the kite might have been better though, (if the zoom on your camera isn't strong enough, pull the kite in ; )
I think you have your focus reversed on this picture. The focal point of the picture IS the kite, but I think you need your up close string to be very focused and detailed, and the kite can afford to be blurry. The clouds as well - I'm not sure why you have them as sharp as they are. They look nice, but they're just a touch of sharpern or two removed from perfect, and have crossed over into distracting. The same goes for the rich blue sky... just sharpened one or two times too many. This picture is well composed though, and very creative, so that adds a good bit of points into it. Nicely done :) and fun, too!
I love the sky. It would have been better if a larger portion of the kite string could have been outside of the camera view because the out of focus portion really takes away from the wonderful backdrop.
i had the same idea, just no kite. the texture of the clouds really adds to the photo. if there were one thing that i would try and improve upon, it would be the string.
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