My first entry to a dpchallenge! I hope people enjoy this photo.
The house is a small copper tea-candle burner. I originally tried to shoot at dark but it was too dark, so I settled for dusk, aout 15 min. past sunset.
I stuffed the house with newspaper and some hay (great for smoke), set it atop an old oil drum in the back yard, turned on the camera, got as close as I dared and set 'er alight!
As a safety precaution I had a large bucket of water and a barbecue skewer nearby so I could safely lift the house and dunk it if needed.
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Place: 143 out of 158 Avg (all users): 4.7251 Avg (commenters): 5.8000 Avg (participants): 4.6000 Avg (non-participants): 4.7928 Views since voting: 1510 Views during voting: 314 Votes: 171 Comments: 12 Favorites: 0
As requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission. Please keep in mind this is a personal opinion.
First Impression - the most important one:
Aaaw.. too bad it isn't in focus... but the colors are amazing!
Composition / PoV:
The composition looks allright, might have cropped a bit off the right. I'm guessing lots of voters thought it was a real house (very clever of you to use a tea-candle burner!). To increase that effect, you might have taken the photo straight and a bit lower (from the ground).
Subject:
This does fit the challenge.
Technical (Color, focus, and light):
Focus: I think you lost a lot of points with the focus.. that's a pity!
Color: The purple & yellow colors are great, but the blue doesn't really fit here IMO.
Light: The light seems to be ok.
Like I said, I think you were voted down because of the focus. But I think with your creativity, after practicing with focus, it will be better.
I hope you've found this critique helpful. Good luck with future challenges!
I think the blue detracts some from the heat feeling. However, this is a truly amazing shot. As stated before, the background gives it the proper context, and it is pretty frightening to see this. Good job.
I assume it's some sort of toy house judging by the size of the flames, but the effect is still startling and dramatic. You did a really good job of placing it in a background that makes it look like a real house. The overall effect is a Surreal nightmare. 9
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