::: Critique Club ::: Welcome to DPC Paul and your first Challenge. Now this is one of the more interesting images I've had for critique
First Impression - the most important one: "Wow, what is that?" It has a slimy octopuss look at one point and then a psychedelic cathederal. Great fun image.
Composition: The image has got a creepy, slightly sinister feel about it. It really can't conform to any of the composition rules, it is its own rule. That's what is attractive about abstracts. They challenge convention and push the boundaries.
One of the interesting visual tricks I find with this is that you'd swear you are looking at a 3D tunnel into that cabbage. Even though I keep telling myself its flat, the patterns in there just makes it look like a long deep tunnel - very very cool.
Subject: What can you say about half a cabbage! :) This is a great subject. Quirky is good and as we can see from the comments, it tickles peoples imaginations - as I'm sure you had every intention of doing. Well thought out subject, it takes a good experienced eye to see these everyday things as photographic subjects.
Technical (Colour, focus, and light): I wasn't sure if the commenters were right about it being slightly OOF so I downloaded it and found that I could sharpen it. I have a feeling that the original is as crisp as the cabbage.
In case you've not picked up what happens with sharpness for the DPC submission size images. A perfectly sharp full sized image that is reduced to 640x will always need sharpening after reduction. In this case, it looks as if you might have sharpened it beforehand but not after?
The lighting and colour of the image are realy good. There's that slight glistening of moisture which gives it life, perhaps that of an alien lifeform :)
How hard did you push the post-processing? When I did the minor sharpen, there was quite a bit of noise appeared. It's difficult to know if that is the cellular structure of the cabbage or the levels being pushed hard.
To grow its vote?: There are many subjects and treatments that are fine photographs but are never going to get a huge popular vote. Nor should they, because they would have to be compromised to do so. A 5.7 score is an above-average one, I can only see sharpness as getting you more and only then if it didn't aggraqvate that grainyness
Summary: Great pic, I loved it. Going out on a limb and pushing boundaries is what doing great art is all about. Well done, we look forward to more from you in DPC.
lettuce right?, 7 for using creativity and something around the house...my improvement would be the water is reflecting and distracts slightly, but other then that a cool photo
You should keep buying these and until you get a cut that looks like a woman or something than photograph it and make it a print (it has that Van Gogh feel to it) (8)
Very cool, just had some of this in my salad tonight. :-) The focus seems a little off, could have been crisper (not the cabbage, the focus!). I wonder what this would have looked like with some light shining through the cabbage? Nice picture - great idea!
I really like this sort of picture. I find other people aren't usually as transfixed as I am -- I hope this does well for you. I find it fascinating, although the focus/lighting/something is a little bit iffy in the main, squiggly portion of the photo. Good luck. 6 from me.
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