Had the sun behind me at 3.00pm so that it cast a relatively long shadow.
Processing - crop, level, curves, brightness, saturation and highlights to take away some distracting glare that was coming from the sand. Then sharpening with LPF and soft light.
Statistics
Place: 140 out of 154 Avg (all users): 4.6102 Avg (commenters): 4.5000 Avg (participants): 4.5373 Avg (non-participants): 4.6545 Views since voting: 752 Views during voting: 260 Votes: 177 Comments: 12 Favorites: 0
Though this shot fits the challenge perfectly well, I believe that it suffers from a lack of an interesting subject. There is nothing in the shot that can hold your eye and keep you interested. There are no compositional elements that can take the place of an interesting subject. All there is is some harshly lit sand and the shadow. There are some features in the sand that could help the shot in different lighting. The smooth rolling textures at the top or the roughed up textures at the bottom. However they need the nice lighting that comes from early morn or late evening light. Another thing that may have helped this shot would have been to make the shadow more interesting. Not just you standing there taking the picture. Perhaps you sitting on the beach or in a running pose. Something to take the shot to the next level.
I have many shots in my port from challenges that even though they met the challenge perfectly scored pretty low. Sometimes we have to be able to look through the challenge description and ask ourselves does this photo stand on it's own...
Challenge: SHADOWS III
Description: Creatively capture a shadow Advanced Edit
A shadow of me
Fit: Clearly meets the challenge 1
Aesthetics: OK composition 1
Not sure that this is the most creative shot of a shadow that I have seen - composition is a little flat
Technical: Technically well executed 2
All the detail is there for sure
Wow: Has some impact 1
Just feels like another shadow photo to me - sorry
Total Score = 5
You picked a nice background for the shadow, one which really shows a different texture effect in the shadowed areas. I wish you'd cropped out your foot, the pure shadow would have been more effective.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
