Well, I really wanted to get back into DPC, so i thought I'd shoot for this challenge. Initially I was thinking of doing the long straight road style photo, but couldn't think of anywhere close where I wouldn't get runover :P ... So I've always wanted to do this shot, and I wanted to try out my new sigma 10-20, so this is what I came up with after a lot of experimentation.
Lighting was pretty dodgy, just flourescent bulb in my room. Biggest problem with this shot was DOF. I couldn't get enough of it :( ... So i shot at f/22, and hope for the best... Took a fair bit of sharpening to get it here... Also, i wanted it on a black background... but my black sheet wasn't big enough :( ...
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- Raw conversion w/crop, rotate and WB fix
- Noise ninja
- clone out some dust bunnies
- heavy curves, and moved whitepoint too
- HSL for very minor sat pump
- smart sharpen
- resize 640
- smart sharpen
- sRGB convert
- dpc save for web
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Hello from the Critique club, my name is Jon Rowe, and i will be looking at your image this evening :)
Composition/Lighting : classic vanishing point shot, done well also. i think the reason for all the sub-6 votes is because of the top tight crop. if tilted back a little more, i feel it would have done better seeing the actual vanishing point. here the viewer is left wondering, which sometimes is a good thing but i think in this instance the vanishing point needs to be visible .
Challenge : this definitely meets the challenge, but as stated the end needs to be seen to finish the point of vanishing.
Conclusion : very nice score, good placement, and well shot. you should be proud of this. very nice job. keep up the great work
This is a well-balanced, documentary type image. What it's missing IMO is some drama. Some "Wow!". For this subject I think you could have done a little more with lighting, perhaps something soft to pick up the shimmer on the strings, darker around the outside of the composition. A single light source out of view towards the far neck end. ??? Just a thought. Good luck in the challenge.
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