This picture is made in my backyard with a collector's item from my future wife.She collects shoe's from "The right shoe only" and this is her favorite. I tryed to get the idea to you that i lost it in the desert.The sand is just average sand from my aqurium and this is a left over so i used for this experiment the shoe is from as i said "The right shoe only "
Made with sony dsc-p72 no flash and a little photoshop CS editting ( sharpend, and photo-filter sepia 25%, cropped, exported with ADSEE to 640x480 pixels Hope you enjoy it as i did making it !!!
Statistics
Place: 350 out of 465 Avg (all users): 4.5322 Avg (commenters): 3.8750 Avg (participants): 4.2953 Avg (non-participants): 4.7740 Views since voting: 892 Views during voting: 398 Votes: 295 Comments: 12 Favorites: 0
As I review the critique, I apologize for mentioning Advanced Editing as this was not the case for the shoe challenge. I was thinking of the Dark and Light and just wasn't using my head. :~(
Upon first view of this, I like it very much. The simplicity of an old timey shoe in the sand really works here. You don't think of the two necessarily going together, so it makes for a nice variance. The lighting lends a nice shadow on the sand. The overall composition is simple yet effective. Normally a subject placed dead center isn't as appealing as one with more negative space around it, BUT due to the long shadow to the left, I think it works just fine in this setting. The sand is a nice textural difference with its warm tones of it working as a distinct contrast to the deep dark suede of the shoe. Perhaps a tighter crop could have given more focus on the shoe itself. As you had advanced editing available for the Shoe challenge, it might've been fun to play and see what creative areas you could have worked on to even enhance it further. Overall in my opinion, I think it stands on its own as a nice shot. Best wishes, Judy
There's no effort to make the shoe seem lost that's evident. Placing the shoe under/behind a rock and dominating the focus and foreground, while someone fumbles about under blankets or something in the background would have been more effective
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
