Gotta say that I had a great time shooting / researching for this challenge. After I ruled out a number of ideas(mainly due to the fact that I started 9 hours before the deadline!) I finally settled on this one. At first I had planned on using a title which represented the movie location, such as "Dear Pinellas County..." or something along those lines ... but when I was researching I came across a movie poster for "The Godfather" and the name Don Peter Clemenza poped up (he was the Don of the New York family). I was originally going to use his name but I really didn't like Peter, just sounded too non Italian. So I put together the name Don Petronio Corleone ... which seemed to have a little more "umph" to it.
Can't wait to see what everyone else came up with.
Photoshop:
Crop
Level adjustment
Colour adjustment (to improve the red in the blood drop)
Slight Burn on the folower (to remove a few distracting spots)
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First impression - a nice shot. I'm fond of the colors and the drop of "blood" tell me, "nice capture". I also like the bright white background.
How could it score better? I'd say for starters you could shut that aperture down a bit more to maybe f8 of so. Of course you may or may not need a bit more lighting (I don't think you would though) to help stop the motion of the droplet but f4 leaves the stem just a bit soft. While the colors are certainly beautiful it just doesn't have the "pop" that DPC voters need to give you an abundance of the eights that it takes to put images on the front page. Hit it with a bit of unsharp mask as well to see what you get.
Overall a lovely image!
Thanks for the opportunity to critique this photo Chad.
Interesting subject and good composition, the drop of blood is a nice dramatic touch. Seems a little overlit and/or overexposed, or maybe it's just the white background is too strong.
I don't think the marketing execs are going to like the purple rose. What does it mean? Why not a drop of blood from a red rose? But I'm not a marketing exec. I'll trust the movie to explain the purple. Maybe Louie the Lilac is back in town! Many movie posters create a symbolic image like yours instead of a still from the movie. This is a good example. The drop of blood tells us plenty about what to expect.
what I am looking for in this challenge is for a creative 'wow' shot that would go on a movie poster. I think that's what the challenge is all about...this is OK, but no WOW. I guess once some text was on it with the movie title it would improve, so I will give you the benefit of the doubt
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