Challenge:Best Friends (Basic Editing III) Camera:Nikon D100 Location: palo alto california Date: Mar 15, 2005 Aperture: f 16 ISO: 200 Shutter: 1/15 sec Galleries:Still Life Date Uploaded: Mar 15, 2005
Something about the composition here doesn't feel right. There seems to be a lot of visual clutter used to convey the idea that a poker game is in progress. I would have liked this shot better if it had been cropped so that the cards were closer to the bottom left corner. This would eliminate some of the foreground items which both steal attention from the subject (the kings) and offer only redundant information ('poker game in progress').
Simply because they have a relationship in a sense, does not make them friends. As a matter of fact, friendship is a personal, namely humanistic expression. Actually friendship, philologically is rooted in love. But do not worry too much, I still voted on the photo itself.
I like it but it was compressed too much. There are obvious artefacts.
You should try to save the image as close as possible to the 150k limit.
There's a tutorial on this in the learning section.
Composition: 8
Technical: 6, Never seen poker played on a white table. ;-)
Appeal: 4
Challenge: 2
Overall Score: 4, (weighted) - An example of trying to use the title to tie the image to the challenge. Sorry - I am kinda using a stricter interpretation of the challenge. Good photo overall otherwise.
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