Yea..Thanks Alot from the Critique Club
A random click and I get your brown!! hahaha
What can I say Paul, I think you clearly did in this photo what you set out to do. I appreciate the artistic sentiment expressed by trying to burn a cross in basic editing.
Alot of imagination went into shooting this with an eye to the final result and I have no doubt you did what you wanted.
That said, just really not to my tastes. I am not a fan personally of such abstract pieces, but that said, I do not think the colours really make me "feel" the message of the shot.
I applaud your courage and OTB thinking :)
brilliant brownness. this is conceptually fascinating, beautiful to look at, out of the box, and shows a sophisticated openness to what can be achieved photographically, all within basic editing rules. this picture's a champ as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks!
For reference, here is the (resized) original from which I cropped this.
I was trying to achieve the look of flames around the cross within the Basic rules, so I wanted to get a photo of a cross with a surrounding gradient to which I could apply the tone variations. I liked the way the flaw in the domed roof makes it look like molten metal running down from the cross.
I don't speak French either, but I'm pretty sure the title means "The Cross in Flames" or a close variation ... maybe I should have just titled it the more prosaic "Cross-Burning" instead.
brilliant brownness. this is conceptually fascinating, beautiful to look at, out of the box, and shows a sophisticated openness to what can be achieved photographically, all within basic editing rules. this picture's a champ as far as I'm concerned.
I'm having trouble with this image... It's not exposed, focused, balanced, or really anything very well. I'm sure with some thinking I could somehow relate it to the challenge, but it's not jumping out at me. And to do well in these competitions, it needs to.
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