Minor editing - straightened, added very little fill light, highlights and shadows
This is a bronze statue that's at the entrace to the field from The Citadel's locker room. The two players depicted are two of the Captains of the football team from the Class of '65 who, immediately after graduating, went to Vietnam to serve our country and gave their lives.
Now, the players pass the statue on the way out to the field reminded that there are fallen soldiers and alumni. It's a beautiful statue (especially from the front), but I like the view that fallen captains overlook.
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I made the grave mistake of trying to figure out what the voters would say/prefer, and didn't enter my prefernce of my shots for this challenge. My favorite had the statues completely centered with the posts framing them, but my thought process was that I'd probably get "hammered" (using fracman's terminology) b/c things were centered! Just proves that I should enter what I like instead of trying to enter what I think the voters would like to see.
Also, a couple of people commented about the feet being cropped out...the statue is set on a very high base (about 3'), so in order to crop out the base and get the rest of the shot in, I have to crop out the feet/shoes, too. Honestly, though, I never noticed it when I was entering it/before comments were made.
Thank you to all for commenting - especially the constructive critique to help me improve.
Consider more fill on the statues, or else take them to complete silhouettes, and consider crank up the saturation and maybe levels from previous for a deeper blue sky. You're so close to symmetrical, that you might as well fully frame the statues instead of having the goal post line cut through the arm. I do like the image, and think that it can be even better.
The angle keeps nagging at me. My mind wants the statue centered between the uprights, although I'm sure you would have been hammered for doing it. Well done shot.
nice idea. I would have scooted just a bit to the left so the left goalpost didn't cross the statue. I'm not sure what's below the statue, but I may have panned down a bit. 6
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