This is way outta my norm. It has no people in it - hehe.
I figure most people will be trying to demonstrate an emotion using people; I chose to submit this where the emotion is tied to the lack of people. Doubt it'll do well. Maybe a 4 and in the bottom 20%.
I went with some other photogs from work to shoot on location at the national cemetary to expand my scope. I figured I might pick up some tips from others but in the end we all just ended up walking around and shooting with little communication between us. It was a positive experience and I'm pretty happy with what I produced just because its different from my norm and some of the compositions seem to have a little punch to them.
Editing:
+ Cropped to 1 x 1.25 dimensions (8x10)
+ Added Levels layer to achieve black and white points; adjusted red point to start about 7 points higher than the camera shot it ('cause I am using a warmer palette and forgot to change it)
+ Added Brightness/Contrast layer with relatively minor adjustments to each
+ Added Hue/Saturation with a 10 point bump to the whole image
+ Used USM filter to adjust colors to what you see (settings were 200, 200, 0)
+ resized and uploaded
Statistics
Place: 163 out of 183 Avg (all users): 4.7009 Avg (commenters): 4.5625 Avg (participants): 4.7412 Avg (non-participants): 4.6779 Views since voting: 888 Views during voting: 340 Votes: 234 Comments: 20 Favorites: 1 (view)
Who gave this a 10? Someone(s) out there are more empathetic (or gonzo) than they realize. I had a feeling in the pit of my stomach when I shot this. The locale and the sense of lonliness I felt (perhaps from having our group all split up to shoot) probably contributed to the mood I felt when shooting. When I reviewed the shot and started screwing with it I got the same feeling when I hit on this version of the image. Maybe 4 other people out there have been walking through a cemetary or someplace and had a solemn sense of lonliness and this just brought it back for them. I completely get that this was supposed to be an attempt at "capturing and emotion" and not "evoking an emotion" so I pretty much expected this score. I'm surprised to see 4 other individuals who had a "10" kind of reaction.
If it worked for you then great. Thanks for the votes.
color is way to saturated, too much blur. It is obvious that you wanted to focus on the flowers, but the blur effect is too distracting. Maybe have more focus and switch to bw except for flowers
really nice evocative shot, and the saturation of the flowers work well. the dof is effective as well. I'd normally score 7 on this, but i'll bump to 8 because no doubt some people might vote this down because it evokes a mood, rather than captures one.
Although I don’t say this is a bad picture I have scored this low.
Low in my book is not extremely low, but I guess there will be other people thinking the same way I do who don’t leave a comment.
Don’t take this the wrong way, this is my own opinion, and I am trying to let you understand what some voters may think.
In my opinion this does not meet the challenge, the description of the challenge: Take a picture that captures an emotion.
I looked hard, but I don’t see an emotion. This could be my fault, but that’s the reason why I voted lower as I would normaly do.
Nice concept, but for some reason the flowers appear fake to me (as in they were added after-the-fact). I could just be that they are so vibrant compared to the rest of the picture.
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