Positives:
Technicals generally are good. Appriopriate subject and very well framed. This is nice image. Lots to like about it. It is better than it's score.
Technicals:
Color, composition, overall exposure, brightness and framing are all excellent. Your unique application of the rule of thirds in this composition is superb. Really, really nice texture. You paid close attention to the framing and it shows up nicely.
You have some digital "jaggies" on the angle lines of the 'explosives' sign that holds this image back, otherwise the sharpness is great.
The challenge:
Meets the challenge in a very creative and direct way both in color and content. Unfortunately, it looks like the concept of danger as red was above the heads of voters and you suffered because there was less 'red' in it than they expected.
Suggestions:
This is an excellent image. It's sharpess is fine except for the digital 'jaggies' that hurt this image more technically than anything else. I would recommend this sharpening strategy...
At the end, duplicate your flattened unsharpened layer and apply exactly the same sharpening to that layer that you did before. Then add a layer mask to that layer and brush with a feathered black brush on the mask to reduce sharpening on the 'jaggie' edges to mitigate their digital effect. An alternative might be to use the blur tool to soften the edge slightly PRIOR to sharpening and/or a combination of both. |
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