My son hasn't played with this tunnel for almost a year now. I thought it was a good fit into the challenge. I tried a bunch of vertical shots and horizontal shots.
Photoshop Processing:
- Converted from Canon RAW in PS CS
- Cropped
- Created adjustment layers for curves & photo filter (7% warming 81 filter).
- Flattened layers
- Resized, applied USM and added a bit of a border.
Statistics
Place: 258 out of 544 Avg (all users): 5.2528 Avg (commenters): 6.0000 Avg (participants): 5.1871 Avg (non-participants): 5.3254 Views since voting: 1012 Views during voting: 397 Votes: 265 Comments: 11 Favorites: 0
What a gorgeous photo of this young man. The colors and textures of the tunnel really give him a sense of distance and perspective. The straight black and white lines mixed together with the spiral of the supporting wire produce good interest and lead in to the photo. His arms being held the way the are also produce lines to lead the eye in to the boy.
The square crop works great for this photo, giving it good balance. I would like to see one try with him at a 45 degree angle with his hands reaching toward the top left and bottom right corners (this may not be an improvement, rather just an idea for a different look).
The only suggestions I have for this are those that have already been said.
1. Reflection off the floor. This could easily be fixed by having him stand on a black cloth of some kind. This would give him more of a fade into the background look of where he is standing. It would also remove the distraction of the bright reflection taking attention away from him.
2. Contrast in the stripes. This probably cannot be fixed with levels and curves without effecting the boy's exposure (which I think is right on). Rather, this will take some judicious use of the burn and dodge. Burn the black, dodge the white. Time consuming, but to make the stripes have more even lighting would be much better.
3. Wrinkles in tunnel. This suggestion may not be able to be fixed, but I do find distracting the very strong wringkles in the cloth toward the top of the photo. Interestingly, the bottom doesn't show those same wrinkles. Maybe some cloning out of some of the more stark wrinkles would help.
Overall Impression: I do feel that your score is a little lower than it should be. This may be as a result of the picture being a 'cute kid' type of picture. This is unfortunate. I do believe that without the reflection on the floor, this would have certainly been another 6 picture.
(By the way, I really love your Black Eyed Abstract photo, I scored it a 10 when I voted it, and just now added it as a favorite)
Anyway, if you have any questions or comments about this critique, feel free to PM me.
Cool perspective, however I think I would be better if it were on the ground with him crawling through it. Maybe with him laying on his back, looking back at you, and then flipping it over so it looks like he's stuck to the top! Now that would be cool! :)
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