Detail of where the surface has peeled off the wall of my shower stall. Lighting was from the on-camera flash, which gave it just the harshness I wanted. Cropped, levels adjust, and slight unsharp mask, then used Color Balance to get the purplish color. Finally used burn-in tool to tone down a few overly bright spots.
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From your shower stall? Wow, I thought it was a tree knot! I really shoudn't be the one doing a critique on an abstract shot. It's not one of my better areas of photography and I honestly never really understood a lot of it. But here goes, so knowing what you do about my strength in this area, this isn't a bad shot to me overall but the whole shot seems to lack that POP, that WOW that really makes it jump out of the screen at me.
I like the composition and the cropping but the colors, while nice, seem a bit dull overall to me. Maybe if you played with it a bit in the colors or hue and saturation to make the colors really pop out? Also if focus was just a tad sharper to really bring out the lines and edges?
I really like some of your other shots, the hippo one was great and the Magic one is also great. Keep up the good work!
Good Luck In Future Challenges!
Deannda
DNeufer@stny.rr.com if you have any questions or want to discuss this further!
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 9
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 8
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc.? 9
How well does it meet the challenge: 10
Total Averaged Rating 9
one of my favorites this challenge
Should have gone closer, to avoid all those edges. Would be better to just use the whole in the middle as compositional element and then the colorful structures around it, without the edges.
My daughter's favorite color scheme, so it must be good. Whatever this is, a little sharper focus would have gotten a 9 rather than the 7 I am giving it. Despite the complaints, this is pleasing to the eye.
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