The composition and focus is not doing anything to help draw attention to your subject "shoes". First rule of photography is usually to do something that draws attention to your subject, iyou generally use out of focus to draw attention away from objects that you don't want noticed, so this ends up being a photo of "steps".
GREAT use of shallow DOF!! Works just wonderful here!!!
I bet you're being hummered though... people here wouldn't recognize a good shot even if it fell on their heads... 10
Focus in the wrong place. Could have been much better. As a general rule the shoes should have been nearer the foreground with the focus disappearing behind them.
Fit Challenge Criteria: 0/2
Contrast/Color: 0/2
Composition: 0/2
Photo Quality: 1/2
My Subjective Affinity: 0/2
Sorry. On a challenge for shoes, I think the shoes should be the main focus, or at least close to it. The first step appears as if it is in focus, but the shallow DOF hurts the image quite a bit.
Presumably, the shoes are the main interest in this shot. Why are they out of focus. I really like the texture of the steps, and it has the possibility of being a really good shot, but it's all foreground with nothing in it.
You got your leading lines. You got your selective focus. You got your abstracted subject. You got your creative composition. You got your story within a frame. What's not to love about this? A real good shot to my eyes. 8
focusing on the anti-subject of this photo does absolutely nothing good for it. coulda been an ok 5. now its a 3, sorry. if you were trying to illustrate the intended path of the 'walking shoes' a different angle/composition and making the shoes more apparent would all help.
I like your idea here!
Something that I think would improve it would be making the second and/or third steps the ones in focus. Having only the bottom edge of the photo in focus takes away from the rest of the image.
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