Oh man, this pic caused me some heartache. I had an interesting shot in still but I thought it might be DNMC's. Then at about 10pm on Tuesday I suddenly thought of this. Camera is upside down on a pillow in the washing machine with shirts strategically placed around it. Shot was taken on 10 second delay so there was much frantic shutting of door and hoping that frame wouldnt move
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Place: 89 out of 156 Avg (all users): 5.1946 Avg (commenters): 6.6667 Avg (participants): 5.0847 Avg (non-participants): 5.2346 Views since voting: 938 Views during voting: 349 Votes: 221 Comments: 16 Favorites: 0
Positives:
Wonderful perspective and the sharpness of your model looking into the dryer is good. It is the central subject of the composition. It is a nice touch and makes this image interesting. Curious expression and placement of the eye is perfect. Distribution of the laundry is good.
Technicals:
Overall technicals OK. Sharpness is fine, there are no digital artifacts which are normally the biggest defects in DPC images. There are some overexposed highlights your model's head and arm and an object on the far left side that is distracting because it is unidentifiable.
The Challenge:
Ironically, though you had many concerns about meeting the challenge you were probably still nixed for it. That is because there was no 'actual' motion and it is obvious in the composition.
Perhaps the fact that the model and not spinning is the central subject hurt it in voting as well.
Here is a funny... I tried to be metaphorical in my spinning image and got trashed for it. LOL!!! You are ALWAYS better to take as literal an interpretation of a challenge topic as you can. Yours, and mine, were NOT literal enough.
Suggestions:
The overexposed areas are a problem. For a basic chalenge the only way that can be corrected would to somehow add additional light inside the dryer to balance lighting and decrease exposure.
As done this image would never get a thumbs up from the dnmc crowd. The only way to do that is to capture actual rotation of the dryer drum.
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