Greetings from CTP2 Gunnsi
First impression Great ghost story. Good looking picture. Light a bit harch in the window. Nice use of the lines to let the eyes follow to the trunk. Exept for the lines at the top.
What can you do better A different crop, take a bit from the top and increase the shutter speed for less light. This is Adwanced Editing so you could have brightened the rest of the picture in Post Processing.
This picture is underrated. Should have scored higher IMO.
this was shot with a lensbaby. no post processing blurring at all - in fact i sharpened with high pass! looking back i probably should have used a smaller aperture (a little rubber/metal ring that you slip on top of the optic in a lensbaby!), but i was carried away with the whole newness of the lensbaby, baby! it's a very steep learning curve with this lens. i shot about 30 of this, to get the focus i wanted. i ended up having to sit in the hallway just to get this much of the room in the view. i was probably about 25 feet away from the trunk.
OK keeping it real here. I think you picked a good place to take the shot. It's not to tightly cropped and it does give me a little sense of empty room. The trunk is a nice prop for the shot. However IMO the post processing you did hurt the photograph. I know thats just my opinion but the only thing in the photograph in focus is a portion of the top of the trunk and the lower right side of the window.
I think I know what you were going for here but feel it would have been achieved better with lower light dim out the room instead of selective blurring.
Over all a good location and prop but I really cannot critique the full image because over 2/3rds of it is obscured by blurred post processing. I feel a natural way of approaching your idea would of rendered a very nice photograph.
I hope you find this critique helpful and if you have any questions or concerns feel free to contact me.
SDW
I like this picture and I love the way everything blurs away though the you could try experimenting a bit with the contrast and I'm sure this pic would look gorgeous in B/W
You need to bury it or dump it in the sea. If you leave the body in there, the fluids leak out and raise suspicion. Don't you learn anything from those forensic dramas?? ;-)
Kiddin around - I like this shot a lot. Well done on the lighting and dreamy look.
i fear that you are SO going to get condemned for your selective blur and out-of-focus treatment. i personally adore this style - i've tried it myself with not remotely the level of success you did here. i hope i'm wrong and people who are voting warm to the atmospheric and stylisctic approach you've taken. the only thing not getting this a ten is something i can't quite place about the composition; perhaps it's the amount of wall on the right? might be talking out of my arse, but i wonder if a wide-angled landscape shot might make it fit a bit more comfy? or even show less of the room altogether (i put my hand over the right third, and it seems a bit more balanced). anyway, splendid job anyway. 9.
hmm, too blurry, but still good photo other than that, I like the colors and the composition, looks dreamy, but I wish the entire chest were in focus, still give ya a 7 cuz I like everything except the lack of focus on chest
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