Looking through a waterfall of a large fountain along the Chicago River. I bumped the Hue and Saturation values to get nicer colors, cropped, and tweaked brightness and contrast a bit. I had a difficult time trying to keep the rich color I had in Photoshop with the JPG save file. This is kind of artsy and abstract, and should keep me in the comfortable area of the bottom 15%.
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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 : composition wise, this seems random but i think it would work if the lighting was quite a bit better, or if a slower shutter speed was used to show flow, then it would be smooth.
Challenge : i really don't see this fitting the challenge, for the main reason of it being incredibly abstract. very nice attempt though. i like the colors, and the natural gradient here.
Conclusion : pretty much got lower score i imagine for the abstract nature of it. the subject itself before shooting i'm sure looked extremely silky and smooth, but the way it was portrayed through your picture in my opinion is somewhat rough and abstract. Keep joining challenges and growing with us all. You're doing well!
This was an 8 from me. Beautiful abstract. I wonder if a gaussian blur or a bucket of neat image might have made this look even silkier...? Though I kind of like being able to see the dots clearly. Nice bold entry!
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