Challenge:Something Old (Classic Editing) Camera:Sony DSC-F707 Location: Hollywood Date: Aug 4, 2002 Aperture: f8.0 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/2 (sec) Date Uploaded: Aug 4, 2002
This is a really cool composition. The glow of the candles would be nice but there is too much ambient light for it to make the kind of effect that candles can have on their subject. Especially this, with the book being Dracula, being lit mostly or completely with candlelight could have given it a more "spooky" atmoshpere.
Absolutely splendid arrangement here - I love the book, the ribbon and the candles. I think you could have cropped just a shade closer in but it's no biggie. Im afraid the biggie is that you've used a method of shrinking your picture down to 640x480 that has made the lines in your book turn into dashed lines. I'm positive that the original shot wasn't like that. When you resized your picture down you probably used something like bicubic, bilinear or nearest neighbor. You should try using "resample" instead. It gives better results in almost every case. But you might need a small amount of sharpening after you've done it. This is such a great shot I'm still giving you an 8. The light and arrangement are *excellent*. - floyd
wow, the real mcCoy. The red ribbon is a nice touch. I do see some of the background cloth catching light in several places, but not too critical. nice lighting.
At first I read the title as "1987" and thought, "huh?" Anywya, I really like how the read ribbon provides some great contrast and pulls the viewer into the picture. It does feel a little off-balanced to me, though, because the candles go out of the frame, but there is still space to the right of the book. of course, dracula makes me unbalanced too. :-) karmat
Something old. Use your photographic technique to emphasize the age of your subject. Composition - quite good Technical Aspects - very good Meets Challenge - yes Visual Impact / Originality - good
You chopped of the cnadles - great atmosphere, dark and as old as time.. But I can't give it 10 because of those candles - put the candles in and I'd have given the max without thinking about it (8) Great idea, great picture and I'm sorry for being picky...
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