Purpose: This was not taken with any definite purpose..I was checking whether the rain has stopped yet, and the idea of taking the photograph of my hand at that position striked..
Lighting Setup: Natural Light
Editing Steps : Crop-->Levels-->Used Channel Mixer to convert to Grescale-->Resize.
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I probably end up sounding like a broken record because I think I said this to most of the people I voted "4" too.
A photo has to entertain and/or communicate. And in large challenges like what we have at DP Challenge you don't have a lot of time to do that. Photos that don't grab my attention automatically get a 5 ..at the most a 6 if the technicals are just astonishing.
Your photo just wasn't strong enough to stand out in the crowd to me. That put you around a 5. Then, your silhouette (the technical challenge part) felt a bit missed.
If you could have had the drop more pronounced on the hand or the contrast could have been better then I think you would have seen a rise in your average a point or two.
When you don't make it clear that your intention was a dark photo though strong contrasting elements and subject matter then it feels as though the photo was simply underexposed through lack of technique.
Anyway, thats my meager 2 cents. I hope it helps you some :-)
Here's what I think about silhouettes: If the subject needs front lighting to help you understand what it is, then it is not a strong candidate for silhouette lighting. The images that really work in this challenge have subjects in complete silhoutte against a brighter background. It is the strength of that division, between light and dark, and the story they tell which captures the imagination.
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